A:Katarzyna Kozinska

As part of the OLnet project, her research focuses on exploring the motivational aspects of social and collaborative learning with Open Educational Resources (OER). Katarzyna will talk about the ways in which learners interact with others while learning on OpenLearn, the main types of social p. 1

activities and the dynamics of building communities in taskas well as non-task related contexts. Her empirical insights are based on a study entitled: ‘Motivations for socio-collaborative learning practices among registered users of OpenLearn – examining community interactions’. p. 2

Katarzyna has a Master of Arts in Philology (Applied Linguistics) from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland) and has recently completed her MSc in Educational Studies at the University of Oxford (UK). Besides Open Educational Resource initiatives, her research interests include technology-enhanced, blended and lifelong learning, as well as collaborative and social learning practices. Alevizou & Forte, 2010Alevizou, P., & Forte, A. (2010). Engaging with open education. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (30).