SERENA HENDERSON
Professional Profile
Innovative Pedagogy Open Scholarship & Open Access
Open and Distributed Learning Copyright & Open Licensing
Instructional Design Academic Research, Editing, & Writing
Negotiations Project Management
Teaching, Presenting, & Facilitating Institutional Policy
Journal Management Supervision
Program Administration Digital Pedagogy
Open and Distributed Learning Copyright & Open Licensing
Instructional Design Academic Research, Editing, & Writing
Negotiations Project Management
Teaching, Presenting, & Facilitating Institutional Policy
Journal Management Supervision
Program Administration Digital Pedagogy
OPEN PRACTICES: OER, OPEN LICENSING, & OPEN ACCESS
- Contract Project Coordinator for the Research Data Management OER.
- Open access doctoral research.
- OER Research Fellow with the Open Education Group.
- Creative Commons Travel Bursary recipient.
- Fair dealing: Thesis, presentations, and articles.
- OER: Articles, presentations, and other literature.
- Open licensing: Presentations, articles, and advocacy.
- National review of internal copyright policy conducted with Dr. Rory McGreal.
- Sit on Copyright Committee at Athabasca University.
- Advise students and faculty of copyright practices and Creative Commons licensing use.
JOURNAL MANAGEMENT
- Managing Editor for the open access, peer-review online journal the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL).
- Manage and administer journal operation and publication in OJS.
- Supervise, train, and manage contracts for copy-editors and technical staff.
- Liaise with international peer-reviewers, authors, and editors.
- Communicate with various stakeholders in an international context.
- Review content and proceed with editing from initial to final publication stages.
- Assign to editors, blind articles, and screen for plagiarism using TurnItIn software.
- Convert articles to HTML, EPub, MP3, and PDF.
- Proficiency in APA7.
- Meet journal specifications and formatting requirements for publication.
- Provide technical support for OJS.
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
- Training, supervision, and hiring duties.
- Administer and manage all aspects of the graduate programs in the CDE.
- Compose and administer program policy for Council meetings.
- Project management and collaborations.
- Advise and administer thesis regulations and procedure.
- Administer presentations in various topics.
- Advise on program and course improvement strategy.
- Work directly with students, instructors, faculty, and various AU departments.
- Marketing strategy and writing.
- Moodle administration support.
- Editing, copy-editing, and content writing.
EDITING
- Proficiency with Creative Commons Licensing.
- Proficiency with fair dealing and copyright law.
- Proficiency of APA7.
- Editing academic papers for book chapters and journal articles.
- Meet submission specifications and formatting requirements.
- Effectively meet deadlines and objectives.