Personal Information

Biography

Name:

• Aune Valk

 

Nationality:

• Estonian 

 

Recent Positions:   

• Director of the Open University Centre,  University of Tartu Director of the Open University Centre, University of Tartu
• Director of the Department of Academic Affairs, University of Tartu

 

  Areas and Length of Expertise:

• Recognition of prior and experiental learning (6 years),
• E-learning and lifelong learning (8y),
• University curriculum development (6y),
• Bologna process (6y),
• Collective identity and ethnic relations (13y)
• Acculturation (13y)

 

  Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:

• Chair of the working group on APEL in European University Lifelong Learning Network
• Initiation of Estonian e-University (a consortium of 8 Estonian Universities)
• Seminars on APEL and Bologna in 6 countries (Bulgaria, Slovenia, France, Turkey, Estonia, Lithuania)
• LÜKKA project – leader of higher education development project to unite all public universities and 9 other partners in Estonia
• European Commision founded UNIVe project on development of university consortia for e-learning scientific coordinator
• Research project "How to support deep learning in university?" - project leader
• Conference "Cultural tolerance" - organiser
• Development projects and research on ethnic and national identity and acculturation in Estonia

 

Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:

• PhD (psychology) – 2001, MSc (psychology) – 1997, Higher Education in Psychology – 1994
• Chair of Estonian e-University (a consortium of 8 Estonian Universities)
• Member of several commissions in the Ministry of Education and Research
• Member of Universities Centre in Saaremaa (centre uniting 5 universities activities on Estonia’s biggest island)
• Member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology;
• Member of the Estonian Union of Psychologists (chair 2001-2003)

 

Selected Publications:

• Valk, A., Saluveer, A. (2006). AP(E)L and reforms in higher education at the University of Tartu, Estonia. In C. Corradi; N. Evans, A. Valk (Eds.) Recognising Experiental Learning: Practices in European Universities (pp. 94-103). Tartu: Tartu University Press
• Corradi, C; Evans, N., Valk. A. (Eds.) (2006) Recognising Experiental Learning: Practices in European Universities (pp. 1- 242). Tartu: Tartu University Press.
• Valk, A., Marandi. T. (2005). How to support deep learning at a university. In F.E.H. Tay, T.S Chuan, S.Han-Ming (Eds.) Proceeding of the International Conference on Education 2005. National University of Singapore.
• Valk, A, Realo, A. (Eds) (2004). Eesti ja eestlased teiste rahvuste peeglis (Estonia and Estonians in a mirror of other cultures). Tartu: TÜ Kirjastus
• Valk, A. (2004). Adults in Estonian Higher Education. In Thomas, E., Mark, R., Pouget, M. (Eds.) Adults in Higher Education: learning from experience in the wider Europe. Peter Lang AG, the European Publisher.
• Valk, A., Karu, K. (2001). Ethnic attitudes in relation to ethnic pride and ethnic differentiation. Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 583-603.

History

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