Committee Chairs & Members

ILE-TC Chair

ILE TC Vice-Chairs

Secretary

Elected Board Members

Junior Executive Board Member

Katya Alvarez-Molina

University of Bremen

Germany

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Scientific Co-Chairs

Industrial Liaison Europe Co-Chair

Industrial Liaison America Co-Chair

Industrial Liaison Middle East Co-Chair

Publication Liason Co-Chair

Standards Liason Co-Chairs

Hamadou Saliah-Hassane

IEEE Involvement: TAB CoS, TAB CoS SPE, and IEEE LTSC

University of TÉLUQ

Canada

Hamadou Saliah-Hassane

Biography

Professor Saliah-Hassane is a senior researcher at the LICEF Research Center. He teaches informatics and computer networks at TELUQ, a Distance Education University of the Network of Universities of Quebec.

Saliah-Hassane has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University in Montreal and a Master of Applied Science degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.

He has taught at the University of Niamey, Republic of Niger (1985-1987) and was Head of Electrical Engineering Department of The Engineering School of Mines, Industry and Geology (EMIG) of the former Economic Community of West Africa in Niamey, Niger (1989-1991).

Hamadou Saliah-Hassane is a member of Professional Engineers of Québec (OIQ); of IEEE (Member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE Education Society and Chair of its Education Standards Committee); of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and of African Engineering Education Association (AEEA).

In 2005 he received the "2005 Achievement Award" from the International Network for Engineering Education (iNEER) for “Research and Innovation on Online laboratories and for the Advancement of International Collaboration”. He received other awards and memorials of satisfaction: "Champion of Montreal's IEEE Teachers in Service Program" (2010); Volunteer Award of the President of IEEE Canada (2009); Certificate of Appreciation from the Vice Presidents of IEEE Technical and of IEEE Geographic Activities. And recently, in 2012, Professor Saliah-Hassane was recognized with the highest academic distinction of “Commander of the Order of Academic Palm” by the Republic of Niger, his home country.

Affiliation(s)

IEEE Involvement: TAB CoS, TAB CoS SPE, and IEEE LTSC

University of TÉLUQ

Canada

Mark J. W. Lee

Charles Sturt University

Australia

Mark J. W. Lee

Biography

Mark J. W. Lee is Executive Vice President and Chief Research Officer with the Immersive Learning Research Network. He is an educational technology and learning sciences academic who divides his time between Australia, where he is an adjunct senior lecturer with the School of Education at Charles Sturt University and the USA. Until recently, he was visiting faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. Previously, he worked in a variety of teaching, instructional design, and managerial roles at various private higher education and vocational education institutions. He has published widely in the areas of educational technology, e-learning, and pedagogical innovation, with 75 peer-reviewed papers, articles, and chapters to his name.

Mark is well known for his scholarship in the immersive learning arena. Together with his colleague Barney Dalgarno, he authored the article “What are the learning affordances of 3-D virtual environments?” (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010), which has been cited over 800 times as of April 2018, according to Google Scholar. With Sue Gregory, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan, he co-edited two book volumes relevant to immersive learning, Learning in virtual worlds: Research and applications (Athabasca University Press, 2016) and Virtual worlds for online learning: Cases and Applications (Nova Science Publishers, 2015). Of late, Mark has been investigating immersive ways of bringing together co-located and geographically dispersed learners to jointly undertake “blended synchronous” collaborative activities in real-time, and exploring how wearable augmented reality and other emerging mixed-reality technologies can be harnessed to create engaging learning experiences that combine aspects of the real and virtual worlds.

In addition to his role on the iLRN Board of Directors, Mark holds a number of other positions of leadership within the scholarly and professional communities with an interest in immersive learning. These include Global Co-Chair of the AR/VR Association’s University Committee, Chair of the IEEE IC Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering (ICICLE) Special Interest Group on XR for Learning and Performance Augmentation, and Chair of the FLEXspace Working Group on Research and Evaluation of Technology-Enabled Learning Spaces. Mark also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Education and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, and on the boards of seven other leading international journals. Mark was previously Editor-in-Chief of MERLOT’s Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) for several years leading up to its merger with the Online Learning Consortium’s journal, Online Learning.

In 2016, Mark was named a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) for his distinguished contributions to ICT education and the use of ICT for education. He is also a Fellow of the Commercial Education Society of Australia (CESA), of the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD), and of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA); an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders (IML); and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Affiliation(s)

Charles Sturt University

Australia

Immersive Learning Research Network

United States

ILE-TC Chair

Christian Gütl

ILE TC Vice-Chairs

Melanie Platz

Minjuan Wang (Duplicate)

Secretary

Andreas Dengel

Elected Board Members

Daphne Economou

Anasol Peña-Rios

Heather Dodds

Christian Eckhardt

Junior Executive Board Member

Katya Alvarez-Molina

Scientific Co-Chairs

Dennis Beck

Tassos Anastasios Mikropoulos

Daphne Economou

Industrial Liaison Europe Co-Chair

Anasol Peña-Rios

Industrial Liaison America Co-Chair

Heather Dodds

Industrial Liaison Middle East Co-Chair

Gazit ELhanan

Publication Liason Co-Chair

Arnold Pears

Standards Liason Co-Chairs

Leonel Morgado

Hamadou Saliah-Hassane

Mark J. W. Lee

Publicity Co-Chairs

Lea M Mueller

Alexander Steinmaurer

Filipe Penicheiro