Rita Kop works as a researcher for the National Research Council of Canada's Institute of Information Technologies on the research and design of advanced learning technologies. Bef...view moreRita Kop works as a researcher for the National Research Council of Canada's Institute of Information Technologies on the research and design of advanced learning technologies. Before that she was Assistant Professor in Adult Continuing Education at Swansea University in the UK where she also managed e-learning research and large digital inclusion projects. She spent ten years as teacher and head teacher in Dutch elementary education. Her research interests are personalized learning, adult education, self-directed learning, open and distance education, learning through online networks, learning design, e-research methods and educational change.view less