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Tünde Varga-Atkins | |
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 Varga-Atkins in 2017 | |
| Nationality | Hungarian / British |
| Other names | Tunde Varga-Atkins |
| Alma mater | Debrecen University (BA, BSc), Liverpool John Moores University (MA), University of Manchester (MSc), Lancaster University (PhD) |
| Known for | technology enhanced learning, curriculum design and evaluation, pedagogic research, digital capabilities, digital assessment |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Liverpool |
| Thesis | Designing curricula to develop digitally capable professionals in engineering and management: the case in two universities (2019) |
Tünde Varga-Atkins
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Dr Tünde Varga-Atkins (alternative spelling: Tunde Varga-Atkins), SFHEA, is a Senior Educational Developer at the Centre for Innovation in Education at the University of Liverpool.[1] She specializes in digital education and the scholarship of learning and teaching with technologies.
Education
[edit]Tünde Varga-Atkins [1] received her PhD from Lancaster University in e-Research and Technology-Enhanced Learning in 2019. Her thesis was titled ‘Designing curricula to develop digitally capable professionals in engineering and management: the case in two universities’.[2][3]
Career and research
[edit]Tünde Varga-Atkins worked as a Learning Technologist at the University of Liverpool since 2007 and was appointed Senior Educational Developer at the Centre for Innovation in Education in 2018. Tunde was Chair of ALT ELESIG, a special interest group (Evaluation of Learners' Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group) between 2018-2020 and has been the regional NorthWest co-lead since 2014 of the Group.[2] She is also one of the editors of Research in Learning Technology and associate editor of the Developing Academic Practice journals.
Publications (selected)
[edit]She has published on digital capabilities, educational technology, curriculum design and development, focus groups, nominal group technique, multimodal research methods including drawings and diagrams in higher education and professional learning:
- Varga-Atkins, T. (2020) Beyond description: in search of disciplinary digital capabilities through signature pedagogies. Research in Learning Technology, 28: 2467 - http://dx.doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v28.2467
- Turner, J., Mason, A., Varga-Atkins, T, & Harrison, R. (2020) “Culture Club”: Experiences of running a journal club for continuing professional development in higher education. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(2), 81–89. https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v8i2.404
- Voelkel, S., Varga-Atkins, T., & Mello, L. V. (2020). Students tell us what good written feedback looks like. FEBS Open Bio, 1-15. Published online March 2020.
- Voelkel, S., Mello, L. V., & Varga-Atkins, T. (2018). Supporting students during their undergraduate research projects using audio recordings. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 55(4) 433-440.
- Varga-Atkins, T., McIsaac, J., & Willis, I. (2017). Focus Group meets Nominal Group Technique: an effective combination for student evaluation? Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 54(1) 289-300.
- Varga-Atkins, T. (2016). A study of the role of a technology-enhanced learning implementation group in mediating an institutional VLE minimum standards policy. Research in Learning Technology, 24(1), 32815.
- Umoquit, M. J., Tso, P., O’Brien, M., & Varga-Atkins, T. (2013). Diagrammatic elicitation: defining the use of diagrams in data collection. The Qualitative Report. 18, article 60, pp1-12.
- Varga-Atkins, T., Dangerfield, P., & Brigden, D. (2010). Developing professionalism through the use of wikis: A study with first-year undergraduate medical students. Medical Teacher, 32(10), 824-829.
- Varga-Atkins T., O’Brien, M., Burton, D., Campbell, A. and Qualter, A. (2009) The importance of interplay between school-based and networked professional development: School professionals’ experiences of inter-school collaborations in learning networks. Journal of Educational Change, 11(3), 241-272.
- Varga-Atkins T, Qualter A and O’Brien M. (2009) School professionals’ attitudes to professional development in a networked context: developing the model of ‘believers, seekers and sceptics’. Professional Development in Education. Vol. 35(3), Sep, 321-340.
- Varga-Atkins, T and O'Brien M. (2009) From drawings to diagrams: maintaining researcher control during graphic elicitation in qualitative interviews. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, vol. 32(1), April, 53-67.
- Varga-Atkins, T; Ashcroft, L (2004) Information skills of undergraduate business students. Library Management, vol. 25(1), pp 39-55.
References
[edit]- ^ Tunde Varga-Atkins publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Varga-Atkins, Tunde (2018) Designing curricula to develop digitally capable professionals in engineering and management: the case in two universities. PhD thesis. Lancaster University.
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