Welcome! I am a professor in educational technology at the University of Victoria in the Faculty of Education‘s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, where I am also the undergraduate and graduate educational technology area advisor. I am also co-director of the Technology Integration and Evaluation (TIE) Research Lab, which was funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the University of Victoria, TELUS, and others. I am also president of the Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA), which is a new member of the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities.

To give you more about my academic background, I have a BA (English) and a BEd from UBC. I began a Master’s in Educational Psychology (specialization in Educational Technology) at the University of Alberta, and was fast-tracked to the Ph.D. program in Educational Psychology (specialization in Educational Technology), where I was a Government of Canada SSHRC doctoral fellow. I have taught online and open since 1998, and use open technologies still to this day to teach without using a Learning Management System. I have explored both modality and access in my research and developed the multi-access framework, which focuses on merging modalities and access (face-to-face, online synchronous, online asynchronous, and open access).

Personally, I am a full-time single mother to two amazing girls, now 13 and 15. This journey of praxis, where theory is put into practice, was life-changing for me. I was able to learn indepth about educational psychology, educational technology, and what is learning vs. schooling, as I traversed parenting children who went to traditional public school, traditional private school, homeschool, and an inquiry-framework school.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me anytime. I am happy to discuss your questions around online and open pedagogy.

Twitter: @_valeriei

Email: virvine at uvic dot ca

Office tel: 250-721-7778