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Dr Sagun Shrestha

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My name is Sagun Shrestha and I did my PhD on affordances of ICT in education in secondary school settings during the crisis contexts from Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland and I earned Masters in ELT (Specialism in ICT) from the University of Warwick, UK and Masters in English Education from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. My research focuses on issues of educational technology, such as affordances of ICT, retention in online courses, machinima as a teaching learning material, and inter alia. I have published several articles in the area of ICT in education in top-quartile journals and edited a few books related to teacher education.

Biography

Dr. Sagun Shrestha is a research associate at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. In 2016 and 2017, he served as a founding editorial member of The Warwick ELT ezine, which promotes informed discussion of developments in ELT and draws attention to research and innovative practices related to English language learning and teaching and teacher education. He also served as an editor-in-chief of NELTA ELT Forum the official ezine of Nepal English Language Teachers' Association (NELTA) between 2017 and 2020. In 2021, He served as a reviewer of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET), a peer-reviewed journal published by IJI Global and the Journal of NELTA, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association. He also contributed as an expert evaluator of the abstracts of the dissertations (2020) in British Council’s Master’s Dissertation Award Scheme in which I ranked the abstracts and gave feedback.

He has also served as a reviewer of Journal of NELTA Gandaki, a peer-reviewed Journal (JoNG), published by the Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association Gandaki Province, Pokhara, Nepal in 2019 and of Nepalese Translation Volume 3, published by Society of Translators, Nepal in 2018. I also contributed as a co-editor of Saishik Smarika, the magazine published by the Government of Nepal, Center for Educational and Human Resource Development, Sanothimi, Bhaktapur in 2018. When he was working in GEMS, one of the A-graded schools in Nepal, he served as an Editor-in-chief of The GEM, the annual magazine (souvenir) published by Graded Medium English School (GEMS), Lalitpur, Nepal.

Publications

2023

Milrad, Marcelo; Herodotou, Christothea; Grizioti, Marianthi; Lincke, Alisa; Girvan, Carina; Papavlasopoulou, Sofia; Shrestha, Sagun and Zhang, Feiran. (). Combining Design Thinking with Emerging Technologies in K-12 Education. In: Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshops - 13th International Conference., Springer, Cham, 15-27.

2022

Shrestha, Sagun; Laudari, Suman and Gnawali, Laxman. (). Exploratory action research: experiences of Nepalese EFL teachers. ELT Journal.
Giri, Ram Ashish; Dawadi, Saraswati; Shrestha, Sagun and Haque, Saifa (). Enhancement Approach: Success Stories of EFL Teachers from Bangladesh and Nepal. Online: BELTA and NELTA.
Shrestha, Sagun; Gnawali, Laxman and Laudari, Suman. (). Issues of Participant Retention in an Online Course for English as a Foreign Language Teachers. International Journal of Research in English Education, 7 (1) pp. 86-98.
Shrestha, Sagun; Haque, Saifa; Dawadi, Saraswati and Giri, Ram Ashish. (). Preparations for and practices of online education during the Covid-19 pandemic: A study of Bangladesh and Nepal. Education and Information Technologies pp. 243-265.

2021

Dawadi, Saraswati; Shrestha, Sagun and Giri, Ram A.. (). Mixed-Methods Research: A Discussion on its Types, Challenges, and Criticisms. Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2 (2) pp. 25-36.
Adhikari, Bal Ram and Shrestha, Sagun. (). Translation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal: Performance without recognition. Bridge: Trends and traditions in translation and interpreting studies, 2 (2) pp. 4-28.
Shrestha, Sagun and Gnawali, Laxman. (). Emergency Response in Educational Policies during COVID-19 in Nepal: A Critical Review. IAFOR Journal of Education, 9 (2) pp. 163-181.
Laxman, Gnawali; Laudari, Suman and Shrestha, Sagun (). Exploratory Action Research: Stories of Nepalese EFL Teachers. Kathmandu: Nepal English Language Teachers' Association.

2019

Shrestha, Sagun and Harrison, Tilly. (). Using Machinima as Teaching and Learning Materials: A Nepalese Case Study. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 9 (2) pp. 37-52.
Shrestha, Sagun. (). A SUCCESS STORY CONFERENCE: WHAT, WHY AND HOW?. ELTED, 22 pp. 60-65.

2016

Shrestha, Sagun. (). Role and Status of English and Other Languages in Nepal. Journal of NELTA, 21 (1-2) pp. 105-112.

Media appearances

Nepal needs an ICT census

The Kathmandu Post | 11th April 2021

Awards

Goverment of Ireland International Education Scholarship (GOI IES)

a prestigious award offered from Higher Education Authority Ireland

Hornby Alumni Projects Award

to conduct Success Story Forum (www.successstoryforum.wordpress.com)

Hornby Alumni Projects Award

to mentor Exploratory Action Research mentors

IRRAL Postgraduate Award

by Irish Association for Applied Linguistics

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