Biography
Dr. Kati Clements (PhD in Information Systems Science) is research project coordinator at the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä and visiting professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. She has worked in and coordinated various European and global projects in the field of Learning Technologies and Open Education since 2005. Currently she is coordinating technology enhanced learning projects in topics like digitalization of rural schools, competence development of AI and emerging technologies for teachers and mitigation of technostress in classrooms. Previously she coordinated Erasmus+ project Computational Thinking and Acting and participating in various other projects like ‘Learning from Extremes’. Clements was also coordinating Horizon2020 project for innovative procurement of Learning Technologies "Learning Technology Accelerator (LEA)" due to which she is still the leader of LEA schools’ network. Clements’s PhD dissertation topic was Quality assurance of Open Educational Resources Repositories. Currently, her main research fields are innovation teachnology procurerment for schools, AI in education, Learning analytics, and Sustainable Value Co-Creation of digital services in retail. Clements has also managed and coordinated several projects in Finnish-Chinese collaboration on education e-Business (Next Generation e-Textbooks, eBEREA, SINOFINN Capstone and Artificial Intelligence in eBusiness).