Keynote Speakers
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He is a Doctor in Education from the University of Barcelona and Master’s Degree in Educational Technology
from San Francisco State University in the USA. He holds degrees in Engineering and in Philosophy and previously taught Mathematics
in secondary education. He teaches about Digital Learning Environments, and in the doctoral program ‘Education and Society’ at the
Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona. He is a founder of the new Institute of Educational Research of the same University.
He is a member of different Research Committees, Journals and Conferences at an international level. During the last two decades,
Dr. Barajas has coordinated and participated in a large number of the European Union funded projects and leads the research group Future
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Dr. Joy Kutaka-Kennedy has served in the
Department of Special Education at Sanford College of Education
since 2003, almost 15 years. She earned her doctorate from the
University of San Francisco in Curriculum and Instruction with a
specialization in Mild/Moderate Special Education, completing
her dissertation titled “Inclusion in secondary general
education classes: What do students with Emotional and
Behavioral Disorders think?” Prior to becoming an academic, she
honed her teaching skills and K-12 expertise through 18 years of
teaching in grades pre-K to 12 in general, special, gifted and
at-risk education. She began in self-contained general education
multiple subjects classrooms and single subject classrooms in
English/Language Arts, World History, Biology, and Physics. She
also taught a weekly pull-out of gifted students for a semester
and a self-contained 4/5 class for students identified as highly
gifted for a year, plus at-risk students in a court/community
school setting. She entered special education and taught high
school students with emotional and behavioral disorders and
early childhood special education students at the county office
level. She presents at numerous national and international
conferences, often as a keynote speaker, on topics such as the
impact of augmented and virtual reality on learning, online
instruction for the 21st century, generational differences in
educational technology preferences, online supervision of online
K-12 teaching, online mentoring, and online course design to
enhance creativity and collaboration. Her current
responsibilities include course design and oversight, field work
supervision, and mentoring new faculty in higher education. She
serves as the Treasurer of the California Association of
Professors of Special Education, completes program reviews for
national accreditation, and performs editorial reviews for
professional journals. |
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Dr. Fang Lou was born in 1963 in Hangzhou,
China. She obtained a BSc in Biology from the University of
Science and Technology of China (1986), and a PhD in Medical
Sciences from the Lund University, Sweden (1994). She did post
doctorial research at the Imperial College, London, United
Kingdom, in muscle physiology. |
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Plenary Speaker
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Minoru Nakayama is a professor of educational
technology at Human System Science, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University in
1983 and completed the Master of Education program in 1985, and
received a Doctor of Engineering degree from Tokyo Institute of
Technology in 1990. His research concerns educational technology
and human visual perception. |
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