To be able to support and use modern technology and teaching methodologies, I’m actively participating in various e-learning courses by myself (given by different institutions from all over the world). I find especially insightful online courses given by Adobe (link to profile). Adobe does have great train the trainer type courses, in where you are learning how to teach your fellow teachers.

I believe that if you participate in different e-learning courses by yourself, only then you start to understand what the heck is e-learning and how it can be used to motivate the students. Because you simply understand the learning side as well by participating yourself. So, being an active learner yourself, helps to understand the learner perspective and apply such knowledge into your own courses. Especially when you are teaching different learner groups (students, teachers, current real-world practitioners, etc.).

Having a background/experience of Education Technology Officer, I have been supporting various interest groups in terms of learners. My own experience in developing e-learning courses has made a great basis to deliver those skills to other teachers (check Moodle e-learning courses in Estonian or in English). Down below a general figure is shown who has participating in face-to-face Moodle courses in previous years.

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The train-the-trainer Moodle e-course is divided into key sections like: (a) general introduction; (b) e-support (e-course) resources; (c) e-support (e-course) activities and (d) learning analytics.

The previous experience of such role (Education Technology Officer) also means that I’m involved in continuous e-learning related discussions that helps to achieve university visibility in terms of branded and openly available e-courses. I also have the experience of Moodle administration in my own Moodle web-server (https://flowbim.ee/elearn/) which helps to discuss or to be an advisor for many e-learning based topics/projects, including participation in international collaborations (ERASMUS projects, project web pages etc.).

To support my knowledge in creating recognizable e-courses, “Building information modelling basics (BIM I)” has been awarded with the e-course quality label in 2019, “BIM for infrastructure (InfraBIM) basics” in 2020 and “Water Pipelines and Modelling” achieved “Best e-course of the year“ award at national level in 2021.

During my lecturing career I have been involved in various research projects. My main research area relates to construction information throughout its life-cycle. Full list of research projects and articles is available in Estonian Research Information System (ERIS).

From the research side I’m actively participating as a reviewer for multiple internationally recognized scientific journals (the full list is available at ERIS) as well as belonging into local (EVS/TK50) and international technical committees (EC3, CCIC) in where I have had a great opportunity to chair those committees as well.

During my academic career my work has been awarded with several honours that are listed in Estonian Research Information System (ERIS). Through my professional experience and private sector combination I have been involved in several BIM teaching events as a trainer.

My professional background in terms of vertical- and horizontal-BIM topics has been widely presented in several international online trainings/meetings as well as for developing various course materials. Some of those courses are video based and freely available through my YouTube channel. The moderate list of subscribers to my channel shows the value of such video learning materials and has been a great opportunity for quite many to ask direct help/guidance through YouTube community. The list of developed training programs and respective content examples can be found from Appendices, text based training materials – Appendix C and video based training courses – Appendix D.