{"id":4198,"date":"2018-01-04T13:19:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2018-01-04T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:19:32","slug":"hello-from-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/04\/hello-from-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Elske. I am senior lecturer at UMIT, a university located in Tyrol in the Western part of Austria. I am from Germany, but moved to Austria in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>My field of expertise is health informatics. I am teaching health information systems, evidence-based medical informatics and project management, among others.<\/p>\n<p>This is my 5th MET course. Until now, I have taken ETEC 510, 511, 512 and 515b.<\/p>\n<p>I got interested in Education Technology several years ago. As a university teacher, I felt that our ways of teaching are often ineffective and not student-centred. I wanted to explore how to use technology to activate students and to improve teaching and thus started the MET programme. At the moment, I chair the UMIT Committee on Teaching and Learning that is responsible for coordinating activities regarding improving the quality of teaching at UMIT. Also, I am responsible to implement a new online master programme in health informatics. This is really a challenge, and the MET courses helped me quite a lot here &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In this course, I hope to deepen my understanding on how to use technology in fields related to my teaching area (computer science).<\/p>\n<p>Besides my professional life, I have two kids (9 and 11 years). In my free time, I to Taekwondo (red belt) (see photo).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4199\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/P1030498-e1515097057614-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/P1030498-e1515097057614-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/P1030498-e1515097057614-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/P1030498-e1515097057614-620x827.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elske<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, My name is Elske. I am senior lecturer at UMIT, a university located in Tyrol in the Western part of Austria. I am from Germany, but moved to Austria in 2001. My field of expertise is health informatics. I am teaching health information systems, evidence-based medical informatics and project management, among others. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}