Ilona Buchem

Ilona Buchem (PhD) is Professor in Residence for Digital Media & Diversity at Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. She graduated with a Master s degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw (Poland), Concordia University (WI, USA) and University Duisburg-Essen (Germany). She studied Educational Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin and obtained her PhD degree in Adult and Business Education in 2009. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of digital media and society, with special focus on emerging technologies such as social mobile and wearable technologies. Her research interests include open badges, virtual teams, digital diversity, digital identities, digital games, online participation, online facilitation, online communities, mobile learning, e-portfolios and personal learning environments. Ilona Buchem is the Chair of the Personal Learning Environments Conference and the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Wearable Technology Enhanced Learning at the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL), the founder of the Europortfolio German Chapter and a member of several organisations related to distance education and technology-enhanced learning, including the E-Portfolio Initiative Berlin-Brandenburg (EPIBB), the European Network of ePortfolio Experts & Practitioners (Europortfolio), the Association of Media in Science (GMW) and the European Distance Education Network (EDEN). She has been involved in a number of national and international projects as project coordinator and researcher, including Mediencommunity 2.0, iCollaborate, Networked Identities, Future Social Learning Networks (FSLN), Credit Points/IQ Network, fMOOC and Badge Europe.