{"id":41,"date":"2025-09-01T21:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:58:08","slug":"instructor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Michael Paskevicius (Pass-ka-vicious) is an Associate Professor in Educational Technology at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uvic.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Victoria<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Faculty of Education<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/education\/curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Curriculum and Instruction.\u00a0<\/a>My research focuses on learning design practices, the development of digital literacies, and supporting personal knowledge management in an environment of rapid technological change. I have worked in higher education institutions across Southern Africa and Western Canada since 2005, supporting collaborative, creative, and personalized approaches to learning. As an advocate for openness in education, my research explores the integration of open source tools, open educational resources, and the development of open educational practices among educators. My work supporting and advancing open education has been recognized with an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bccampus.ca\/2018\/10\/29\/award-for-excellence-in-open-education-michael-paskevicius\/\">Award for Excellence in Open Education from BCcampus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to learn more about my journey in education technology, scholarship, and research interests, please feel free to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpaskevicius.com\/\">access my personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions, feel free to contact me anytime. <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.opened.ca\">Mattermost <\/a>is the quickest way to reach me. My full contact information is in the course syllabus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Michael Paskevicius (Pass-ka-vicious) is an Associate Professor in Educational Technology at the\u00a0University of Victoria\u00a0in the\u00a0Faculty of Education\u2018s\u00a0Department of Curriculum and Instruction.\u00a0My research focuses on learning design practices, the development of digital literacies, and supporting personal knowledge management in an&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/instructor\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci614\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}