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Dr Irina Rets

Lecturer in Online teaching

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Dr Irina Rets is a Lecturer in Online Teaching at the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University (UK) and a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University. Her research seeks to understand how technology can be leveraged to improve social justice in the learning contexts, and more generally - in society.

Irina is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA). As a seminar leader and then an Assistant Professor she taught a variety of academic university courses on education to undergraduate and graduate students in international English-medium settings, as well as in the UK.

Research of Dr Rets has been published in such WoS impact factor journals, as Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Interactive Learning Environments, International Journal of Ed Tech in HE, Computer Assisted Language Learning, as well as in such CORE A conference proceedings, as Learning at Scale.

Publications

2022

Rienties, Bart and Rets, Irina. (). The impact of virtual exchange on East-West social relations: lessons from a Macau-Portugal foreign language exchange. Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning (In press).
Rienties, Bart and Rets, Irina. (). The impact of virtual exchange on East–West social relations: lessons from a China-Portugal foreign language exchange. Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Early access).

2021

Farrow, Robert; Iniesto, Francisco; Weller, Martin; Pitt, Rebecca; Algers, Anne; Bozkurt, Aras; Cox, Glenda; Czerwonogora, Ada; Elias, Tanya; Essmiller, Kathy; Funk, Johanna; Lambert, Sarah; Mittelmeier, Jenna; Nagashima, Tomo; Rabin, Eyal; Rets, Irina; Spica, Elizabeth; Vladimirschi, Viviane and Witthaus, Gabi (). GO-GN Guide to Conceptual Frameworks. Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN). The Open University (UK).
Rets, Irina (). Linguistic accessibility of Open Educational Resources: Text Simplification As An Aid To Non-native Readers Of English. PhD thesis The Open University.
Rets, Irina; Coughlan, Tim; Stickler, Ursula and Astruc, Lluïsa. (). Accessibility of Open Educational Resources: how well are they suited for English learners?. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning (Early Access).
Rets, Irina; Herodotou, Christothea; Bayer, Vaclav; Hlosta, Martin and Rienties, Bart. (). Exploring critical factors of the perceived usefulness of a learning analytics dashboard for distance university students. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education.

2020

Rienties, Bart; Lewis, Tim; O'Dowd, Robert; Rets, Irina and Rogaten, Jekaterina. (). The impact of virtual exchange on TPACK and foreign language competence: reviewing a large-scale implementation across 23 virtual exchanges. Computer Assisted Language Learning (Early access).
Papathoma, Tina; Ferguson, Rebecca; Iniesto, Francisco; Rets, Irina; Vogiatzis, Dimitrios and Murphy, Victoria. (). Guidance on how Learning at Scale can be made more accessible. In: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale, Aug 12-14, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
Rets, Irina; Rienties, Bart and Lewis, Timothy. (). Transforming pre-service teacher education through Virtual Exchange: a mixed-method analysis of perceived TPACK development. Interactive Learning Environments (Early Access).
Rets, Irina and Rogaten, Jekaterina. (). To simplify or not? Facilitating English L2 users’ comprehension and processing of Open Educational Resources in English using text simplification. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Early Access).

2018

Rets, Irina and Ilya, Ali. (). Eliciting ELT students’ Understanding of Plagiarism in Academic Writing. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4 (2) pp. 193-211.

2017

Rets, Irina. (). Vocabulary Retention and Concordance-based Learning in L3 Acquisition. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3 (2) pp. 313-324.

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