Eileen Scanlon (born 1951) is a British academic who is

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at the

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Early life and education

Scanlon was born in 1951. She is a graduate of the

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and the

Career and research

Scanlon became co-director of the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) at the Open University in 2004. She directed the Computer Assisted Learning Research Group for many years and has worked on a range of educational technology research and development projects, many of them focussing on science learning. Her current interests include

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, mobile learning for formal and informal learning of science, and developing pedagogies for technology enhanced learning. In January 2013, she was appointed to the new Regius Professorship in Open Education at the Open University

Awards and honours

In the

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, Scanlon was appointed

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(OBE) "for services to education". In 2016, she was elected a

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(FAcSS).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scanlon, Eileen Living people Academics of the Open University Officers of the Order of the British Empire British educational theorists Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences 1951 births Alumni of the University of Glasgow