Dr. Virginie Aimard
Virgine Aimard
Background
Dr. Virginie Aimard has ten years of experience in training, educational research and project management in an international context. This includes strategic planning, curriculum development, organisation of international workshops and seminars, educational consulting, design and delivery of courses for private and public educational organisations, with a special focus on e-learning and teacher training. She holds a PhD (with Honours) from the University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) in the field of education science – her thesis explores the educational impact of collaborative learning in online learning environments.
From 2006-2007 she was the director of Leaning Visions, the European Institute for Education, Training and Competence, which offers consultancy and training in the area of e-learning. Prior to that, she was working as an expert for e-learning and Vocational Education and Training (VET) for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her responsibilities included the management of Cedefop's involvement in European projects in the field of e-learning. Since 1997, she has been involved in educational activities for three universities and several higher education institutes in different countries as well as the French Foreign Affairs Office. One assignment included the development and management of a university Master Program in Multimedia Creation for Language Learning for the University Marc Bloch in Strasbourg, France, and has managed training programs in several language schools in France and in the UK.
Working area at UNU-VIE
Dr. Virginie Aimard is a capacity development expert with a special focus on innovative education and e-learning. She is in charge at the Vice Rectorate in Europe of developing the Capacity Building networks and programmes. Her work field also involves strategical planning and organizing international science policy dialogues.
Publications
- Ardakanian, R. & Aimard, V., (2007), "Water-related capacity development – a UN-Water perspective", UN Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development, UNW-DPC, Bonn, Germany
- Aimard, V. 2006 “More is different – how eLearning within online learning communities can make the difference?" EDEN research workshop proceedings, Barcelona
- Aimard, V. 2006 "Strategic Capacity building: towards a more effective take up of eLearning in Higher Education", presentation at Online Educa Berlin (December 2006)
- Aimard, V. 2006 "eLearning and innovation", eLearningeuropa portal, European Commission
- Aimard, V. 2005 "Collaborative eLearning", presentation at OnLine Educa Berlin (December 2005)
- Aimard, V. 2005 "Environnements virtuels et didactique des langues, quelle réalité ?", PhD dissertation, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, directed by Dr. Françoise Demaizière.
- Aimard, V. 2005. "Cognitive role of a virtual environment in the acquisition process of a foreign language", 6th international conference on the Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching (UNTELE), 24-26 March 2005, Compiègne (France) http://www.utc.fr/~untele/welcome.html
- Aimard, V. & Springer, C. 2004. "Nouveaux environnements numériques pour l'apprentissage des langues", in Langues et cultures : les TIC, enseignement et apprentissage, actes du colloque des IUFM du pôle Ile-de-France 11-12 décembre 2003, C. Tardieu et V. Pugibet (coord.), Paris : CNDP.