User:Carina Bossu

About me
I am one of the DEHub: Innovation in Distance Education researchers, based at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. I completed my PhD in 2009, titled "Higher Distance Education in Brazil: Policies, Practices and Staff Development". Previously, I worked on several research projects at UNE. I have also taught at higher educational, vocational and TAFE levels in Brazil. Currently, I am leading a research project funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) that investigates national and institutional policies for Open Educational Resources in Australia.

Education
Doctor of Philosophy: The University of New England, 2009

Masters in Educational Administration (Research): The University of New England, Australia, 2005

Graduate Certificate in Educational Management: The University of New England, Australia, 2004

Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering: University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 2003

Bachelor in Computer Science and Information Technology: Methodist University of Piracicaba, Brazil, 1996

My Interests
My current research focus is Open Educational Resources (OERs), more specifically issues related to OERs in higher education, teaching and learning and policy development. Other areas of interest include: staff development, higher and distance education, educational change and policy development and empirical research methodologies
 * Professional

I am personally interested in travelling and other people's travel experiences. History and music are also other interests.
 * Personal

Professional Development

 * 8 &amp; 9 June - NVivo9 Training Basic and Advanced
 * 31 May and 2 June - Influencer Training
 * 26 January to 10 March 2011 - Find, Author, and Share Open Textbooks - P2PU
 * 04 March 2011 - Moodle Introduction
 * 02 March 2011 - Copyright for Educational Purposes
 * 01 March to 19th April - University of New England Staff Leardership Program
 * 15 &amp; 17 November 2010 - TRIM Training
 * Semester 1 2010 - Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Education (GCTE)- UNE
 * April 2010 – NVivo 8 (Webinar)
 * April 2010 – Supervising International Students
 * 19 March 2010 - Enhancing higher degree research supervision in an intercultural context workshop
 * 17 March 2010 – CMS Training Introduction
 * 03 March 2010 – Performance Planning &amp; Review

Grants

 * Grant awared recently

- Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Competitive Grant, Nov 2010 to Oct 2012 - A$ 220,000


 * Grant led

- Council on Australia and Latin America Relations (COALAR), 2010 – A$ 70,000


 * Other grants and scholarship that I have been awarded

- Keith &amp; Dorothy Mackay Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship (UNE), 2007 – A$ 5,000

- Institute for Educational Research Student Research Grant, 2006 – A$ 1,200

- Ambassadorial Scholarship Program - Rotary Foundation, 2004 - US$ 25,000


 * During my PhD candidature, I held a University of New England Assistantship for International Students of Exceptional Merit Scholarship that covered the fees and living costs during the three years of my candidature, approximately a total of A$105,000.

Professional Affiliations

 * International Society for Teacher Education
 * New South Wales Institute of Educational Research
 * Brazilian Association for Distance Education

Journal/Book Review

 * International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
 * British Journal of Educational Technology

Publications
Bossu, C. &amp; Tynan, B. (2011) "OERs: new media on the learning landscape", On the Horizon, Vol. 19 Iss: 4, pp.259 - 267

Bossu, C (2011). Educação continuada e a EAD. In F. M. Litto &amp; M. Formiga (Eds.), Educação a Distância: O Estado da Arte, 2nd Edition. São Paulo: Pearson

Bossu, C. (2011, forthcoming). Southern Skies Distance Education Academic Exchange Project: Building communities of practice. In B. Tynan &amp; J. Willems (Eds.), Global issues and perspectives of blended and distance learning. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.

Bossu, C. (2010). Qualidade na educação superior a distância superior brasileiro­: Prestação de contas ou melhoria, Proceedings of Conteúdo, apoio ao aprendiz e certificação: Os ingredientes centrais para eficácia em EAD, Congresso Internacional ABED de Educação a Distância, 31 August to 3 September, Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil.

Bossu, C. (2010, 23 July). Southern Skies Distance Education Academic Exchange. Research@UNE, 12.

Bossu, C. (2009). Higher and distance education in Brazil: Policies, practices and staff development. Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy, University of New England, Armidale.

Bossu, C., Smyth, R. and Stein, S. (2007). Academic Professional Development for Effective E-learning: A Possible Framework for Brazil, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 48-53

Smyth, R., Shanahan, P., Bossu, C. et al (2007). Lecturers' perceptions of videoconferencing as a tool for distance learning in higher education, 14th Association for Learning Technology Conference, 1-12.

Bossu, C. (2007). Is action research an appropriate methodology to investigate distance education in Brazil?, Proceedings of Bridging the Gap Between Ideas and Doing Research Postgraduate Conference, 11-14 August 2006, FEHPS – UNE.

Presentations
Bull, D., Bossu, C. &amp; Brown, M. (2011). Gathering the Evidence: The Use, Adoption and Development of Open Educational Resources in Australia. Paper presented at 24th ICDE World Conference “Expanding Horizons – New Approaches to Open and Distance Learning", 2 - 5 October, Bali.

Brown, M., &amp; Bossu, C. (2011). Open educational resources (OERs) in Australia: A cross sector environmental scan, Pecha Kucha presentation presented at EdMedia Conference: The next decade (2011-2020), 27 June - 1 July, Lisbon.

McGreal, R., Anderson, T., Bossu, C., Conole, G. &amp; Olcott, D. (2011). Open Educational Resources Panel. Keynote panel presented at the Education 2011 to 2021- Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning, 15 - 18 February, Sydney.

Bossu, C. (2011). Southern Skies Distance Education Academic Exchange Project: Building communities of practice. Paper presented at the Education 2011 to 2021- Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning, 15 - 18 February, Sydney.

Bossu, C. (2011). Open Educational Resources (OERs): Some remaining and contemporary challenges. Paper presented at the Education 2011 to 2021- Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning, 15 - 18 February, Sydney.

Bossu, C. &amp; Wijeyewarden, I. (2011). Wrestling theory and worldviews when English is not your first language, or Australia is not your birth country. Talk given at the Higher Degree Research Intensive - School of Health &amp; School of Rural Medicine, 31 Jan to 2 Feb, UNE, Armidale.

Bossu, C. (2010). Analysing the development of institutional policies for sustainability and quality of OERs with a focus on the Australian context, Paper presented at the 6th The Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning: Access and Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives, 24 – 28 November, Kochi, India.

Bossu, C. (2010). Adoption, use and management of open educational resources to enhance teaching and learning in Australia, Presented at the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE) 54th Meeting, 11 to 12 November, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Bossu, C. &amp; Wylie, A. (2010). An introducti­on to Open Educationa­l Resources (OERs) and their adoption in teaching and learning, University Learning and Teaching Futures (ULT-Futures) Colloquium: Rethinking learning in your discipline, 8-9 September, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

Silveira, E &amp; Bossu, C. (2010). Recursos Educaciona­is Abertos - O caso OCWC na FGV, Conteúdo, apoio ao aprendiz e certificação: Os ingredientes centrais para eficácia em EAD. Roundtable discussion presented at the Congresso Internacional ABED de Educação a Distância, 31 August to 3 September, Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil.

Bossu, C., Smyth, R., &amp; Maxwell, T. (2009) The Development of Higher and Distance Education Policies in Brazil: Hoping for unity of purpose while overcoming centralization, 37th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES) Conference Proceedings - Entering the Age of an Educational Renaissance: Ideas for unity of purpose or further discord

Bossu, C., Smyth, R., Stein, S., et al (2008). Investigating Staff Development in Brazil: A Constructivist Approach, Paper presented at the International Seminar on Teacher Education, 21-24 April, University of New England, Armidale, Book of Abstracts page 31.

Bossu, C. (2007) Academic Professional Development for Effective E-learning: A Possible Framework for Brazil, paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Blended Learning (ICBL), 7 – 9 May, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

Bossu, C., Stein, S., Smyth, R. et al (2006) Internet-based videoconferencing for distance teaching and professional development, Poster presented at the Improving University Teaching (IUT) conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, University of Otago.

Bossu, C., Smyth, R., Stein S., et al (2005) Investigation of videoconferencing for teaching and learning in the distributed environment of Access Centres and international partner institutions, Paper presented at the Postgraduate Research Conference 2005, Australian Centre for Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney.

Smyth, R., Bossu, C., Stein S., et al (2005) Exploring the Possibilities of Videoconferencing in Distance Teaching, Paper presented at the 2005 Keystone Conference: Interactive Videoconferencing – Igniting Opportunities for Learning, University Place and Conference Center, Indianapolis, USA.

Smyth, R., Stein S., Bossu, C. et al (2005) Exploring the potential for Internet-based videoconferencing as a tool for distance teaching. Paper presented at the HERDSA Conference 2005: Higher education in a changing world, University of Sydney - Australia.