Vuorikari, Riina
Address: Rue de Treves, 61, 1040 Brussels
Organisation/Company:
European Schoolnet

Position:
Senior Research Analyst
Biography
Riina Vuorikari has worked in European Schoolnet (EUN) since 2000. She deals with a wide variety of issues ranging from learning resources, web 2.0 issues like tagging and social networks to e-learning interoperability and metadata. She has been involved in a number of EC-founded projects, has authored several Insight Special Reports, and reported on the e-learning interoperability issues on Insight, Observatory for new technologies and education. She works with e-learning policy-makers, teachers, technologists and researchers alike.

She has degrees in education and hypermedia, and currently pursues her PhD in learning technologies in OTEC, Open University of the Netherlands. Her topic deals with how social information retrieval methods can be used to discover multilingual learning resources. She co-chairs the workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL) and contributes to the field through her research, but also as an invited speaker and expert.

Riina Vuorikari blogs on FLOSSE Posse, a group blog that carries out reportage of Free and Open Source Software and Open Content in Education.
Publications

Vuorikari, R., Ochoa, X. (accepted). Exploratory Analysis of the Main Characteristics of Tags and Tagging of Educational Resources in a Multi-lingual Context.

Vuorikari, R., Poldoja, H. (2008). Comparison of educational tagging systems - any chances of interplay?. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning, SIRTEL’08. CEUR, VOL-382

Vuorikari, R. (2007). Can social information retrieval enhance the discovery and reuse of digital educational content?. In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (Minneapolis, MN, USA, October 19 - 20, 2007). RecSys '07. ACM, New York, NY, 207-210.

Vuorikari, R., Manouselis, N., and Duval, E. (2007). Metadata for social recommendations: storing, sharing and reusing evaluations of learning resources, Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively, (Goh, D.H. and Foo, S., eds.), Idea Group Inc., 2007, pp.87-107.

Vuorikari, R. (2007). Folksonomies, social bookmarking and tagging: the state-of-the-art. Special Insight Report. European Schoolnet.

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