Sanja Kišiček PhD, Assistant Professor     (Hrvatski) Office hours: Inquire via email, office E-314 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  Website: www.sanjak.co Sanja Kišiček is and assistant professor at the Center for Teacher Education at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She is also teaching courses at the Center for Cognitive Science and Deparment of Information and Communication Sciences.

Resume: 

Dr. Sanja Kišiček (scientist ID number: 306375) was born on February 21, 1984, in Zadar, Croatia. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, with a dual major in English Language and Literature and Information Sciences, completing both the teaching and research tracks of these two study groups. She earned her Ph.D. in 2013 in the Postgraduate Study of Information and Communication Sciences on the topic of multimedia instructional design, exploring student preferences in learning through a multimodal approach to computer literacy in a virtual environment. She was appointed research associate in 2014, and to the academic position of assistant professor at the Teacher Education Center of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, in June 2022 (tenure track). She has received several prestigious academic awards: The Science Award from the National Science Foundation, the Rector's Award from the University of Zagreb, and the Franjo Marković Award from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. During her academic career, she has participated in teaching, projects and research at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences, at the Center for teacher Education, and the Center for Cognitive Science as part of the joint interdisciplinary Applied Cognitive Science MA program conducted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Comuputing, University of Zagreb. In her academic instruction, she teaches in synergy with the industry. While working internatioanlly, she grew professionally serving as an Instructional Coach for Technology Integration, teaching K-12 international staff as part of the International Baccalaureate program in teaching and learning with technology and instructional design, and teaching courses Creating Positive Classroom Environments and Online Education Strategies in the Masters in Advanced Teaching MA online program at the University of the People, conducted in collaboration with the IBO. She is the author and leader of several professional development programs in the areas of collaboration protocols, collegial dialogue, multimedia in education, and course content management systems. She has professionally developed and facilitated professional development at about 30 domestic and international conferences. She has educated academic and corporate, international and domestic personnel through hundreds of hours of professional training. She returns to the Republic of Croatia with a dream of a collaborative culture and true collegiality, of which she is a relentless promoter and protagonist.

Education:

• PhD in Information and Communication Sciences, Multimedia Instructional Design, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2013
• MA in English Language and Literature and Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2008

Certificates:

• Certified Online Instructor, University of the People (UoPeople), Masters in Advanced Teaching, 2024.
• Certified CFG coach, awarded by the National School Reform Foundation (NSRF), USA, 2017
• IB MYP Category 3, International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), 2016 
• Moodle Course Creator Certificate (MCCC), 2015

Author and Workshop Leader:

• Academia Master Class (unpacking teaching and learning in English, communication and collaboration and instructional peer coaching)
  
  • Dental Medicine Study in English, Dental Faculty of the University of Zagreb, 2021 (70 hours of education)
  • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, part of the Shipmartech project for the development of online studies in English (90 min of education)
• Creating Collaborative Cultures (set of workshops, protocols and communication models)
  • Agency for Education AZOO, within the e-school project, Zagreb, Vukovar, Split, Rijeka, 2021-2023 (15 hours of education)
  • Faculty of Economics in Osijek, EFOS week, 2021 (60 min of education)
  • Go2Human Hub for virtual assistants, 2021 (90 min of education)
  • CADCAM Group, Hotel International, 2021 (3 hours of education)
  • Central and Eastern European School Association, CEESA 2020, Assessment Summit, Zagreb (60 min of education)
  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2019 (3 hours of education)
  • PEAK 2019, Kuwait (45 min of education)
  • Near East Schools Association, NESA 2019, Spring Educators Conference, Thailand, Bangkok (60 min of education)
  • SNEAK PEAK 2018, Kuwait (45 min of education)
  • Instructional Coaches Network Kuwait, BBS, 2019 (45 min of education).owerSchool European Users' Group conference, EU PSUG 2015 Zagreb
• Presentation and Communication Skills:
  • Postgraduate Study of Information and Communication Sciences, 2021-2024 (3 hours of education)
• Multimedia in primary, secondary, and higher education
  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, FFZG, 2009 (3 hours of education).
• Teaching via Moodle, a series of workshops, 2010-2015
  • American International School in Zagreb, AISZ
  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, FFZG
  • Moodle Moot, SRCE, Zagreb
• PowerSchool European Users' Group - organizer and leader of the conference.
  EU PSUG 2015 Zagreb.

Participating in Projects:

• Challenges for Social Sciences and Humanities: New Studies and Quality System at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 2021-23.
• Learning Through Work and Management of Student Experience at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, HKO, 2022-23.
• Creativity and Conceptual Integration in Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages and Mathematics, development and piloting instruments, 2021.
• Croatian Qualifications Framework: Aligning study programs with labor market needs, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (coordinator of the working group for the development of occupational standards), HKO, 2015.
• Project of developing e-courses at the University Computing Center in Zagreb, designing multimedia resources for learning, SRCE, 2013.

Awards and Recognitions:

• Science Award in the field of Social Sciences, for “Project of Developing the Multimedia Software Supporting Teaching and Learning of English Vocabulary”, awarded by the National Science Foundation, 2008
• Franjo Marković Award, for the ongoing research work on several projects, awarded by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, 2007
• Rector's Award, for "E-learning: Learning in Electronic Environment and Distance Learning via CMS Omega”, awarded by the University of Zagreb, 2006

Memberships and Roles:

• University of the People (course instructor)
• Virtual School Procedures, AIS Kuwait (coordinatored the development of procedures for online teaching and lerning)
• Learning with Technology Curriculum, AIS Kuwait (member of the task force for curriculum development)
• IBO (International Baccalaureate Organization, member)
• Instructional Coaches' Network Kuwait (member of the network of mentors to international teaching staff, leader of professional development through workshops)
• NESA Coaches' Cohort 2019 (member of the cohort and leader of workshops)
• ERASMUS (coordinator of student exchanges, teaching, and scientific staff of the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
• Eatel (European Association for Technology Enhanced Learning)

Mentorships:

• Ph.D. candidates in Information and Communication Sciences
• Baccalaureate and graduate theses of students at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
• International teaching staff within the IB program
• Team of students, winners of the Franjo Marković award
• Teams of students working in synergy between academia and the industry

Committees:

• Lifelong Learning Committee at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Digital Maturity Committee, e-Universities, SRCE and CarNET
• 150th Anniversary Committee of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Quality Representative for the Center for Cognitive Science
• Quality Representative for the Teacher Education Center
• Learning with Technology Committee Chair, AIS Kuwait, full IB Continuum School, 2018/19

Teaching:

• Creating Collaborative Cultures
• Computer-Asisted Teaching
• Digital Content Creation
• Presentation and Communication Skills (workshop for PhD candidates)
• Basics of Digital Text and Image Processing

Guest Visits:

• Case Western Reserve University CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2023.
• Middle European Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Consortium, Budapest, 2023.
• Learning Technology Institute, Washington D.C., USA, 2013.
• EU PowerSchool Users’ Group, Malta, Rabat, 2014.

Conferences:

• English Language Teaching, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Muscat, 2023
• Slikam znanje u glavi, metafore i mentalni modeli, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2023
• Sve počinje na Sveučilištu! Kompetencije budućih nastavnika za obrazovanje budućnosti, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2023
• Miroslav Tuđman i paradigma znanja, online, 2022
• Rhetoric for Innovative Education RHEFINE, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2023
• INFuture, Future of Information Sciences, Croatia, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2019., 2015., 2011., 2009., 2007
• NESA Fall Training Institute: Dual roles of school-based librarians and tech integrationists, Bahrain, 2017
• Learning Innovated Unconference, Spring Educators' CEESA Conference, Croatia, Dubrovnik, 2015
• Robin Sharma Leadership Seminar, Zagreb, 2015
• Eropean PowerSchool Users’ Group Conference, Spain, Valencia, 2013
• Google Apps Summit, Czech Republic, Prague, 2013
• European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning ECTEL, Germany, Saarbrucken, 2012 (with doctoral consortium
• PowerSchool University, Florida, Orlando, USA, 2012
• International Conference on Education, Economy and Society, Belgium, Bruxelles, 2010
• InSciT2006, Current Research in Information Sciences and Technologies Multidisciplinary approaches to global information systems, Spain, Merida, 2006.

Publications listed in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI)