Senior Fellowship
The OUM–CENDEF Senior Fellowship recognises distinguished scholars and practitioners whose work has made significant contributions to open, distance, and digital education and related fields. The appointment establishes an ongoing scholarly association with CENDEF and OUM, and formalises collaboration in advancing CENDEF’s intellectual agenda.
Senior Fellows
Prof Insung Jung
Prof Insung Jung is a former Professor in the Education/Psychology program at International Christian University (ICU), Japan (2003–2022). Since retiring, she has remained actively engaged in research and publication as a Senior Fellow at Open University Malaysia, a Visiting Research Fellow at Seoul National University’s Education Research Institute, and an editor for Springer’s book series on liberal arts education. Earlier in her career, she held faculty positions at Ewha Womans University and Korea National Open University.
Her research focuses on open, distance, and digital education (ODDE) and the instructional use of media and technology. She has consulted for major organisations including UNESCO, the World Bank, APEC, ADB, and Korean Ministries. Her extensive publication list includes the Handbook of ODDE (Springer), Quality Assurance in ODE (Sage), Distance and Blended Learning in Asia (Routledge), and several other books with leading academic publishers.
For more details, visit https://sites.google.com/site/isjungcv/
Prof Extraordinaire Paul Prinsloo
Paul Prinsloo is a Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa (Unisa) and Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Teaching and Learning (SLATE) at the University of Bergen (UiB), Norway, and affiliated with the AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning (AI LEARN) at UiB. He is also a member of the Center for Open Education Research at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Germany), a Senior Fellow of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN), and a member of the International Advisory Board at Open University Malaysia (OUM). His expertise in the field of higher, open, distance and online learning, and the quality of his research, are internationally recognised. His current research interests include issues of the onto-epistemological configurations of power, social justice, inequality, ethics, and privacy in algorithmic decision-making systems in educational contexts.