Dr Ruslan Ramanau

Professional biography

Dr Ruslan Ramanau is a Senior Lecturer in Online and Management Education at The Open University Business School.

His first degree was in Linguistics and Teacher Education from Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute in Belarus. He studied at postgraduate level at the  The Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in the USA, at the Educational Studies Department of the University of Oxford and at the Institute of Educational Technology of the Open University.in the UK.

In 2007 he completed his PhD in Educational Technology and was supervised by Professor John Richardson and Dr Barbara Hodgson. Ruslan looked at cross-cultural and cross-contextual differences in student experiences of technology-mediated learning on the Professional Certificate and Professional Diploma of Management courses taught in the UK and in Russia. In 2007-2009 he worked as a researcher at the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development and at the Institute of Educational Technology of the Open University on the ESRC-funded grant relating to learning experiences of "The Net Generation" students stydying at five UK universities. In August 2009 he joined The Open University Business School as a Lecturer in E-Learning. Between 2011 and 2021 he completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Diploma in Human Resource Management (with distinction) from the Open University.

Dr Ramanau has several publications on online and management educationin in leading international journals. His research interests are in the areas of comparative online and management learning annd the impact of newer technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) on learner experiences. He is currently also a Q91 BA (Honours) in Business Management and a Level 1 lead on the same qualification.