Biography

Dr. Anna Bartosik is a PhD graduate from the Language & Literacies Education (LLE) program.

Anna continues to teach English as a language of instruction at George Brown College and has begun a secondment with the Teaching and Learning Exchange where she facilitates and promotes faculty development.  In her instructional design work, Anna focuses on digital accessibility, representation, and creating opportunities for students to direct their own learning. Her recent projects include a hybridized accelerated English language learning program, facilitating workshops for faculty with a focus on educational technology and Universal Design for Learning, as well as developing online language learning courses using Open Education Resources. Anna is looking forward to starting a research project to trace learner autonomy by assessing publicly-facing syllabi in post-secondary institutions and she will facilitate a Short Program on teacher development with BC TEAL in early 2023.


Supervisor: Dr. Enrica Piccardo
Dissertation: Learning to Stay Ahead of the Curve: A Netnographic Analysis of Professional Development in English Language Teacher Chats on Twitter

Research interests

Anna continues to explore teacher development and networks; she has also expanded her research interests to include learner autonomy and ethics surrounding educational technology with a posthuman lens.