Kristina Posavec

Kristina Posavec, originally from Zagreb, Croatia, has 12 years of experience in ICT education, primarily in long life adult education and university level education. Kristina currently works in Croatia as a lecturer of Computer Science at Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation, University of Zagreb and as IT project manager at University Computing Centre in Zagreb. She is actively participating in IT projects from HORIZON2020 (European Union scientific projects) were she is organizing, communicating, educating and writing about project activities and new technologies. In her line of work, she is closely working with primary and secondary schools, universities, professors, researchers and academia. She is actively involved in research projects, writing and reviewing scientific and research articles and presenting outcomes of the projects and researches on local and international conferences. Her main research interests are use of ICT in education, computer corpora, technology for language learning, assistive technologies, open science, digital competences, gamification, mobile learning, mixed and extended reality (VR and AR) used in education.

Publications

Computer Corpora and Open Source Software for Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Kristina Posavec. © 2020. 237 pages.
During the last four decades, a corpus-based approach to language teaching has become very significant. Direct use of corpora in language pedagogy is limited by certain factors...
Advantages and Challenges of Using OERs in Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages: Case Study From Croatia
Nives Mikelic Preradovic, Kristina Posavec. © 2019. 24 pages.
This chapter attempts to draw conclusions about the extent and modality of corpora use in teaching less commonly taught languages, based on the teachers' experience with...