Dr. Diana Andone (@diando70) is the Director of the eLearning Center of Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, responsible for planning and implementing digital education and associate professor in multimedia, interactive and web technologies. Since 1998, she teaches course modules in universities from UK, France, USA, Finland, Italy, Greece. She has extensive research experience with intense publication (over 17 books, 100 research papers, 11 Best paper Awards, reviewer at 6 major journals and several other publications, associate editor at IEEE Transactions on Education, co-chair IEEE ICALT iOpenLearn) and more than 30 research and educational international projects. Dr. Andone is EDEN Senior Fellow, IEEE Education Society 2021 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award winner, EDEN Vice-President for Communication and Communities (2018-2021), and member in IEEE Education Society Board of Governors (2021-present), and in IEEE Romania Section the Educational activities Chair (2019-present) and in EUA Digital Transformation Steering Committee. She also acts in the Board of Romanian NGOs (Pentru Voi Foundation), in Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture Task Force and in other voluntary organisations (Rotary International). She is passionate about the ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people’s life, she actively supports the use of OERs, MOOCs and the open education principles, developing UniCampus.eu for training for digital skills, but also the local start-up movement, women in tech, and the digital culture. She initiated several projects for transforming communities, is invited as speaker at conferences and in the last 25 years involved in the digital education community movement in Romania, recently through the Together Online webinars and the digital culture and heritage with Spotlight Heritage Timișoara.
https://elearning.upt.ro/ro/diana-andone/
Polytechnics University of Timisoara, Romania
The Polytechnics University of Timisoara, Romania is one of the largest and best-known technical universities in Central and Eastern Europe. Established in 1920, shortly after the unification of Romania, by King’s Ferdinand I Royal Decree, the
Polytechnical Institute responded to the need of specialists after the First World War.
For 100 years, it has been an outstanding and modern university with a well-deserved reputation for excellence. The excellence is based on the academic programmes, the research and the support given to the students. The employability and employment record of their students are recognized worldwide and the physical environment of the University is highly appreciated.
At present, the “Politehnica” University of Timisoara has 10 faculties and 4 independent departments. There are about 15,000 students, 800 teaching staff and 900 administrative and additional staff.
