{"id":1658,"date":"2026-04-16T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:22:56","slug":"marti-cleveland-innes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/marti-cleveland-innes\/","title":{"rendered":"Marti Cleveland-Innes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Higher Education Transformation and Lifelong Learning<\/h3>
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Current higher education practices may support or diminish lifelong learning, as a topic and an outcome. This issue was explored via an expanded Delphi method that gathered data from prominent scholars and practitioners around the world. This data driven exercise was guided by the question: What are the critical aspects of higher education transformation needed for lifelong learning in a digital era? When situated alongside recent research on lifelong learning, networked learning ecosystems, and AI\u2011supported professional development, this integrated perspective suggests that transformation is not merely technological but deeply relational, ethical, and developmental. The seven themes identified via research are: accessibility, digital literacy, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), leadership, multimodal delivery, pedagogical change, and quality and organizational states. These aspects function as structural dimensions through which this transformation becomes visible and actionable. As a potential perceptual lens. convergence of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework with Kemmis\u2019s dialectical relationism and Bandura\u2019s reciprocal determinism provides a robust theoretical foundation for understanding higher education transformation activities in the digital era.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Biography<\/h3>
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Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes is Professor of Education Innovation at Athabasca University and is Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology. She is the co-author of several open-source publications, including\u00a0The Guide to Blended Learning\u00a0(2018)<\/a>,\u00a0Participant Experience in an Inquiry-Based Massive Open Online Course\u00a0(2022)<\/a>, and\u00a0Principles of Blended Learning\u00a0(2024)<\/a>. She also co-edited\u00a0The Design of Digital Learning Environments: Online and Blended Applications of the Community of Inquiry\u00a0(Taylor& Francis, 2024)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a principal investigator, Dr. Cleveland-Innes received funding from the One Child, Every Child initiative, supported by SSHRC\u2019s Canada First Research Excellence Fund, to examine Wellness Outcomes and Educational Participation Among Sick Children from Marginalized Populations (2024\u20132027). She has held other major research grants focused on the technology\u2011enabled student experience.<\/p>\n

Her contributions to the field cross many venues. In 2019, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Mid\u2011Sweden University and received the Leadership Award from the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education. She later served on the Advisory Group for Digital Literacy with the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education (2021\u20132022). Dr. Cleveland-Innes was the Virtual Educator in Residence at the National University of Singapore (Fall 2022), served as Visiting Professor of Pedagogy at Mid\u2011Sweden University (2018\u20132025), and is currently Vice-President of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Higher Education Transformation and Lifelong Learning Current higher education practices may support or diminish lifelong learning, as a topic and an outcome. This issue was explored via an expanded Delphi method that gathered data from prominent scholars and practitioners around the world. This data driven exercise was guided by the question: What are the critical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}