Alexandra Okada

Alexandra Okada is a Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, UK. She is also a guest Lecturer at Getúlio Vargas Foundation FGV Online Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the University of the Arts London, UK. Her current research focuses on Content Development for Reuse and Adaptation Strategies in the ICOPER and OPENSCOUT projects. Both projects are a consortium of European Institutions whose aim is to provide mechanisms to ensure European-wide user cooperation to access a critical mass of integrated educational content. Her postdoctoral research in Knowledge Mapping focused on the uses of knowledge media technologies to foster open sense making communities in the OpenLearn project from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Okada holds a BSc in Computer Science, a MBA in Knowledge Management and Marketing and a MA and PhD in Education. Her publications comprise more than 50 papers in international conferences and academic journals, 20 book chapters and 5 books.

Publications

Inquiry-Based Learning on the Cloud
Inquiry-Based Learning on the Cloud
Alexander Mikroyannidis, Alexandra Okada, Andre Correa, Peter Scott. © 2020. 21 pages.
Cloud Learning Environments (CLEs) have recently emerged as a novel approach to learning, putting learners in the spotlight and providing them with the cloud-based tools for...
Inquiry-Based Learning on the Cloud
Inquiry-Based Learning on the Cloud
Alexander Mikroyannidis, Alexandra Okada, Andre Correa, Peter Scott. © 2016. 20 pages.
Cloud Learning Environments (CLEs) have recently emerged as a novel approach to learning, putting learners in the spotlight and providing them with the cloud-based tools for...
Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources
Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources
Alexandra Okada, Teresa Connolly, Peter J. Scott. © 2012. 378 pages.
Current advances and convergence trends in Web 2.0 have changed the way we communicate and collaborate, and as a result, user-controlled communities and user-generated content...
Open Educators and Colearners as DJs: Reuse, Remix, and Recreate OER Collaboratively!
Open Educators and Colearners as DJs: Reuse, Remix, and Recreate OER Collaboratively!
Alexandra Okada, Scott Leslie. © 2012. 25 pages.
The aim of this chapter is to examine key factors for facilitating the development of reusable learning content (RLC) from the perspective of open educators and collaborative...
Knowledge Media Tools to Foster Social Learning
Knowledge Media Tools to Foster Social Learning
Alexandra Okada, Simon Buckingham Shum, Michelle Bachler, Eleftheria Tomadaki, Peter Scott, Alex Little, Marc Eisenstadt. © 2009. 24 pages.
The aim of this chapter is to overview the ways in which knowledge media technologies create opportunities for social learning. The Open Content movement has been growing...