Ms Mireille Pinas

Education:

2024 – Present | The Open University, UK
PhD, Emerging Technologies in Higher Education

2015 – 2016 |The University of Manchester, UK
MA TESOL (Educational Technology)
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language – Educational Technology

2008 – 2009 | University of Westminster, UK. PGCert, Language Teaching.

2000 – 2006 | Het Instituut voor de Opleiding van Leraren (IOL), Suriname. MOA certificate: Teacher of English

Certifications:

2012 | University of Oregon,  Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web 

2009 | University of Cambridge, Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)

Doctoral project:

My research project aims to explore how university-based teacher educators reflect across their multiple professional roles, and how emerging AI technologies may support and enhance this reflective work. The project seeks to examine teacher educators’ current reflective practices and their perceptions of AI, and to investigate how a human–AI reflective framework could enhance the depth, structure, and sustainability of their reflection.

This project aspires to connect research on reflective practice, teacher education, and emerging technologies in higher education, while drawing on perspectives from human–AI interaction, hybrid intelligence, and digital professional learning. Through this interdisciplinary lens, it hopes to contribute insights into how AI can be used responsibly and pedagogically to support the reflective development of teacher educators.

This project is supported by a studentship in Emerging Technologies in Higher Education at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute.

Supervision team:

Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis (lead supervisor), Dr Trevor Collins, and Dr Venetia Brown.