User:Iridium77

Irit Alony
Employer:	University of Wollongong
Occupation:	Research assistant
Nationality:	Australia
Languages:	English, Hebrew, Italian, Russian
Country:	Australia

Irit has been involved in academia on-and-off since 1994, completing her PhD on the 31st of March 2015.  Her PhD is in the field of management (specifically focusing on employee turnover).  Previously, Irit has engaged in studying a wide range of areas.  She completed degrees in the chemistry, computer science, information systems, and management, and has studied counselling, astrophysics, and architecture.

In the online learning space, Irit has been involved both as a student, a lecturer, and a developer.  As a student Irit has completed a grad cert. with the Open University in Israel.  As a lecturer, she has taught information systems subjects in CQU across multiple regional campuses, and has done postgraduate online training whilst at UOW via the e-Grad School (Australia) www.egradschool.edu.au.  As a developer, Irit has been developing online and learning-support resources for Pearson Education for a few years now.  Specifically, for Pearson, Irit has developed online resources such as blogs and podcasts.

Irit is very excited about open and online education, and is really happy to come on board!

She is currently learning about online education, resources, practices, and designs.

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