The importance of non-professional hobbies in the work of a university teacher

PhD in Humanities, graduate of Polish Philology and History at the University of Wroclaw. Professionally engaged in publishing scientific books at the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences. She conducts trainings and classes on the basics of copyright law for scientists and PhD students, as well as occasional humanities lectures; in traditional and distance forms.

Author of a popular guide around Wroclaw and a book about the first Polish professors who were rebuilding science in Wroclaw after the Second World War. Mother of two teenage daughters. She collects old Silesian porcelain and minerals, likes working in her garden and winter swimming. Her motto in life is to do something for the first time ever and again. Author of the blog ewachwalko.pl

Mountain walking is her greatest non-professional hobby. First woman in Poland and second woman in the world who walked the Carpathian Arc alone. Awarded with the Kolosy 2021 distinction in the category Achivment.

Recently Ewa Chwałko has published her new book “The Carpathian Arc. 84 days of lonely wandering" - 524 pages full of a fascinating travel story, adventures, reflections and information, not devoid of humour, sometimes touching and sometimes chilling, containing numerous illustrations and as many as 73 maps with the route of the passage: THE CARPATHIAN ARC. 84 DAYS OF LONELY WANDERING..

Multimedia and interactive e-resources continue to be a challenge for knowledge providers

Head of the Department of IT and Statistics at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences. A graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences (PUMS), finished her post-graduate studies at the Institute of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences PUMS.

Conducts interdisciplinary research combining medical sciences in the field of basic sciences and clinical research with the use of computer science and mathematics. The result is e-learning in the field of pathophysiology and the first in Poland long-term research on the usefulness of academic e-learning with the medical education specialization.

Experience in distance learning: implementation of remote education portals, creation and methodology of multimedia and interactive elements (currently: " E-materials for the industry: healthcare POWR.02.15.00-00-3051/20 together with PŁ), organization of academic e-education.

President of the Management Board of the Academic E-learning Association, Member of the Polish Information Technology Society, Laureate of the team award from the Minister of Health 2019 for significant achievements in the field of teaching activity in the field of innovative education of students. Member of the Expert Team of the National Education Minister 2020 for comparing the required learning outcomes for qualifications: Designing didactic processes in distance learning and Using on-line tools in distance learning with the characteristics of the levels of the Polish Qualifications Framework.

Effective learning – harnessing your brain power

Ewa Hajdasz jest nauczycielem języka angielskiego z ponad 20-letnim doświadczeniem. Jako dyrektor kieruje Studium Języków Obcych i Nauk Humanistyczno-Społecznych na Uniwersytecie Przyrodniczym we Wrocławiu.

Interesuje się nowymi technologiami i rozwojem umiejętności uczenia się. W swojej pracy łączy ze sobą edukację z nowymi technologiami w taki sposób by stymulować rozwój umiejętności uczenia się, co w efekcie sprawia, że jej hobby owocuje zarówno w pracy zawodowej nauczyciela jak i w życiu prywatnym. Ewa, od wielu lat, dzieli się swoim doświadczeniem z uczestnikami różnych seminariów, warsztatów i konferencji zarówno w kraju jak i za granicą. Nieustannie sama uczy się i rozwija. Inspiruje swoich uczniów, nie tylko ucząc ich języka angielskiego, ale także kształtuje ich rozwój w zakresie efektywnej nauki.

WORKSHOPS

Dorota Gałan-Niedziela, doctoral student at the Maria Grzegorzewska University, academic teacher at the Polish Naval Academy of the Heroes of Westerplatte, responsible for the Education Zone in the "Legal Culture" foundation, organiser and executor of numerous educational projects with a nationwide reach.

Trainer and promoter of knowledge on copyright law, open knowledge resources and network security.

Brain fitness - exercises for creative thinking

A Landscape Architect by profession, she obtained her Master's degree from Hunan Agricultural University Changsha in China. She is writing her PhD on the use of alternative forms of greenery, including Green Roofs in urban spaces at the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Scienceson.

In her off time, she develops her imagination and creativity by painting pictures, designing graphics and creating illustrations. She discovers the world by singing in Piotr Rubik's band, but has also performed on one stage with such musicians as Andrea Bocelli, Taria Turunen, Małgorzata Walewska, Justyna Steczkowska, Natalia Kukulska and many others.

She is a big fan of all common knowledge quizzes, logic puzzles, word and memory games. At the "Brain Fitness" workshop she will conduct several exercises and games activating the brain to work creatively. She will show how to develop a "Creative Mind" with daily exercises..

• Disruptions in working with a group
• Stick or Carrot? Or maybe there is another way?
• Design Thinking in my classes
(Two selected workshops)

Paweł is a trainer and expert in the field of the quality of education in higher education at Collegium Wratislaviense. Accredited tutoring practitioner, career advisor, academic teacher at Collegium Da Vinci in Poznan.

For 15 years he has been supporting people in development processes. Specializes in discovering natural predispositions and using them in planning an individual path of educational and professional development (over 1500 hours of individual counseling sessions).

In his work, he constantly balances between courage and fear, motivation to act and postponing, and support and making demands on his charges.
His scientific interests are related to the following disciplines: management and quality sciences, psychology and pedagogy in particular: team building and development, organization talent development, optimal use of the employee's professional potential, internal motivation to act, leadership, decision making, personalization of education.

Digital tools and resources in school and academic education

Natalia Demeshkant, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof., Pedagogical University of Cracow

Supervisor of the Scientific Circle "Teacher with Passion" at the Pedagogical University of Cracow.

Paulina Burkot

Chairperson of the Scientific Circle "Teacher with Passion", Bachelor's degree in Biology, specialisation in teaching. Currently a second-year student of biology with Chemistry and special education. Member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE).

Katarzyna Budzowska

Vice-Chairperson of the "Teacher with Passion" Study Group, Bachelor's degree in English philology and French philology. Currently a first-year student of second-cycle English Philology with a specialisation in teaching.

Gdansk University of Technology

Dr. Iwona Mokwa-Tarnowska is an assistant professor in English at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, as well as an e-learning practitioner, researcher and reviewer of online courses. In 1999 she obtained a Developer of Open and Distance Learning Courses Diploma from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since then she has developed several online courses in different e-learning environments and teacher training programmes for university faculty and staff. Her main research interest is in the most efficient support mechanisms that improve the quality of e-learning and blended learning programmes. Her research also explores theoretical and practical issues around the use of learning technologies and technology-based learning and teaching.

Her publications include papers on e-learning environments, their effectiveness, development of hard and soft skills through web-based learning, high-quality online teaching, as well as the books Technical Writing in English: Language and Editing Guidelines and E-learning i Blended Learning w Nauczaniu Akademickim: Zagadnienia Metodyczne [E-Learning and Blended Learning in Academic Education: Teaching Aspects]. In 2018 she was responsible for writing, through instructional design, rules for the Polish platform MOOC developers. She sits on the management board of Stowarzyszenie E-learningu Akademickiego (Association of Academic E-learning).

Peer evaluation using the Moodle Workshop module

E-learning educator, e-teacher and e-teachers trainer. Supports universities, companies and other organizations in the effective use of the Moodle platform and other e-learning tools. Founding member of the Academic e-Learning Association, co-organizer of the MoodleMoot PL conference

Cyfrowa rzeczywistość Polskiego Uniwersytetu Wirtualnego.

Ewa Komorowska-Jędrzejczak, PhD

Doctor of general linguistics, coordinator of quality of remote education / head of didactics and organization at the Polish Virtual University, author of methodological publications, academic teacher. Editor and proofreader of texts / publishing coordinator. By passion - a lover of distant and close journeys.

Lidia Mirowska, MA

Certified e-teacher, e-methodologist, content expert of international projects in the field of modern teaching methods. Author of scenarios and materials on digitization and e-learning. Interested in RES in the network, ICT in education and news in remote work. At the Polish Virtual University: senior coordinator of the quality of distance studies.

Uniwersytet Warszawski

Doctor of social sciences in the field of pedagogy, specializing in modern technologies in education (2019, 3rd degree award of the Rector of the State University of Malopolska in Oświęcim, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (2021/2022)); lecturer at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Studies at the International University of Warsaw; 2019-2021 – lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies at the University of Warsaw. Currently a team member in the project: „Identification, collection and evaluation of unfriendly disinformation operations in cyberspace, conducted on the basis of ICT tools”. Also gained professional experience by cooperating with the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic, the University of Silesia in Katowice, the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.

In 2019, she obtained an e-teacher and e-methodology certificate, awarded by the Academic E-learning Association.

Author of publications in the field of modern technologies in education, in particular in teaching mathematics. Participant of the internship at the Distance Learning Center in Prague.

Interested in research.
Also interested in information and communication technologies in education, new media, websites, internet communication tools, text mining in R and Statistica, data visualization and analysis methods in R and Statistica. 

What does neuroscience tell us today about the learning process? Get a quick overview of the basic principles of academic courses design.

Knowledge about how memory is formed, how the reward system works, the role of breaks, sleep and physical activity in the learning process is essential when designing educational processes. I would like to invite you to a short story about what knowledge about the operation of the brain should be taken into account when designing learning ecosystems. And after that I will show you how to use this knowledge in practice in the work of an academic teacher.

Director of the Center for Modern Education at the Gdańsk University of Technology, passionate about designing ecosystems supporting learning processes using non-standard methods and tools based on neuroscience. Has over 20 years of experience in teaching students and teachers. Bases her classes and trainings on knowledge in the area of neuroscience, conducts courses for teachers and students in effective learning based on neurobiological knowledge. Understands the learning environment as a space for creativity and independent construction of knowledge by students with the role of a teacher as a person supporting development. Uses gamification in her didactic work (since 2013).  Originator and organizer of the cycle of all-Poland Academic Teaching Conferences "Ideatorium" in Gdańsk (since 2014), co-organizer of the conference "e-Technologies in the Education of Engineers" (2022). Awarded the medal of the National Education Commission (2016). Winner of the "Teacher of the Year" award for the best academic teachers of the University of Gdańsk (2019), awards of the Rector of Gdańsk University of Technology II and I degree for organizational achievement (2021, 2022). www.joannamytnik.com

Why without e-learning there can be no quality university education?

E-learning methodology specialist at the Center for Quality of Education at the University of Economics in Krakow (Unit of Development of Didactics, e-Didactics and Research in Didactics). Founding member of the Academic e-Learning Association. Has the e-Learning Expert certificate (from 2021) and the SEA Distance Learning Methodology certificate (from 2012). Certified tutor since 2015. Educates academic teachers to design and conduct online academic courses. Interested not only in the methodology of learning and teaching, but also in the quality of education and the condition of the university in Poland. A philosopher by education. In her free time, she is a social activist, photographer and painter.