Prof Mirjam Hauck

Professor of Critical Digital Pedagogies

School of Languages & Applied Linguistics

mirjam.hauck@open.ac.uk

01908654252

07984319285

Biography

Professional biography

Professor (Critical Digital Pedagogies)

Academic Co-Lead for AI in Learning, Teaching & Assessment, SFHEA, President EUROCALL

Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics

Research interests

Mirjam Hauck is Professor of Critical Digital Pedagogies and OU Academic Co-Lead for AI in Learning, Teaching and Assessment. Her academic home is the OU's School of Languages and Applied Linguistics. She is an OU EDI Champion, both at faculty level (WELS) and in the OU EDI Champions group. Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Access (EDIA) are also core to her work in the AI space. Her recent work focuses on critical AI literacy skills development understood as a subset of critical digital literacy and captured in this framework. She has published widely on the use of technologies for the learning and teaching of languages and cultures and across the curriculum, in Virtual Exchange contexts in particular. She receives regular invitations to give keynotes and to contribute to expert panels at conferences worldwide.
She is the President of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), serves as Associate Editor of the CALL Journal and is a member of the editorial board of ReCALL and LLT. She is a founder member of UNICollaboration.org, a cross-disciplinary professional organisation ccommitted to promoting the development and integration of Virtual Exchange across all disciplines and interest areas in formal and non-formal educational settings, including Higher Education.

Projects

Integrating Telecollaborative Networks into University Foreign Language Education (E-11-008-MH)

Foreign language (FL) Telecollaboration involves virtual intercultural interaction and exchange between groups of FL learners in geographically distant locations. This project aims to achieve the effective integration of FL telecollaboration into EU Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and thereby to achieve key aims of the Bologna process.

Integrating Telecollaborative Networks into University Foreign Language Education (E-11-008-MH)

The ABC of Young Learners and VE: Access, Benefit and Content

This demand-led study - motivated by questions regarding the K-12/secondary education sector at our IVEC 2021 panel - sits at the interface of two priorities: “Reaching new audiences” and “VE at the K-12 level”. We will expand the size of our target sample reaching out to additional educators and administrators from regions where learners traditionally don’t have access to global learning opportunities, and also to young learners to establish the benefits they draw from participating in Virtual Exchange (VE). We will also draw on our contacts in the K-12 sector to explore existing VE models, contents and outcomes, and potential barriers to VE program adoption.