Our International Advisory Board
Marla Stafford – Marla is the Great Oaks Foundation Professor of Marketing, Senior Research Fellow with the Le Bonheur Center for Healthcare Economics, Chair of the Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management and Affiliate Faculty in the School of Public Health.
Tamer Erzurumlu – Tamer is an experienced and successful business development executive within the Cloud/Software/IT industry supporting partners in realizing significant market opportunities. Opening new countries for the Microsoft business, establishment of Microsoft subsidiaries or building new businesses within Microsoft like the Microsoft Refurbisher Program are a few of his accomplishments.
Nuno Moutinho – Nuno is completely passionate about digital media and education. He has been the school leader of the escolaglobal® group since 2003, professor at the School of Economics and Management (University of Porto) since 1996, member of the board of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences since 2015 and President of the Visionarium Association since 2019.
Steve Molyneux – Steve is Microsoft Professor Emeritus in Advanced Learning Technologies and co-founder of Tablet Academy. He is a former advisor to the UK Dept of Education and Ministry of Defence on learning technologies. He believes that 21st century education should have a firm grounding in deep pedagogy and not just driven by technology.
Thashmee Karunaratne – Thashmee is Associate Professor conducting research at the Swedish Royal Insitute of Technology in the field of analytics-based design for digital transformation, and a particular focus on data-informed education and educational transformation.
Allard Bijlsma – Allard specializes in the interface between ICT and educational didactics. Has long been active as a teacher at the College of Higher Education (NHL/Stenden). He has co-developed several test systems and is specialized in test construction and test conversion. He now is an independent advisor in test construction.
Ebba Ossiannilsson – Ebba holds a PhD from Oulu University. She serves as a quality reviewer in open online learning including OER and MOOCs, for The International Council for Online and Distance Education (ICDE) and for the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU). She is an independent advisor in open online learning, especially on quality.
Mattias Svahn – Mattias holds a PhD from Stockholm School of Economics. His research focuses on mobile-media and in particular ambient media, internet-of-things media and games. Previously he has been senior coordinator of European Union framework projects. In his free time Mattias enjoys trance running, playing squash and detective stories.
Margot Racat – Margot holds a PhD from the IDRAC Business School, University Lyon 3 and associate researcher at Magellan Research Center. Margot is conducting research focusing on the interaction between human senses and digital environments. She has a special interest in human computer interaction, virtual and augmented reality as well as robotics.