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Shailey Minocha

Shailey Minocha

Professional biography
Shailey Minocha is Professor Emerita of Learning Technologies and Social Computing in the School of Computing and Communications in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at The Open University (OU), UK. Shailey's experiences in the software engineering industry and in her post-doctoral fellowship shaped her subsequent academic career: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) became her primary discipline. The focus of Shailey’s HCI research has been to understand users' interactions with technology and to investigate the factors that affect usability, user experience and user adoption of technology-enabled systems. She is particularly interested in analysing contemporary technological developments, and their ethical implications for individuals, organisations, society, research, and policy. Shailey's Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) practice has involved user-centred and participatory design and evaluation of emerging online technologies in learning and teaching innovations. She has always had this conviction both as a student and as an academic that SoTL is an essential research-informed reflective practice that all educators should participate in to understand how students learn and to appraise the efficacy of educators’ academic practices for student learning and engagement. She also holds the belief and as evidenced by the impact audits that she has conducted that the impact of SoTL extends beyond improving the quality of curriculum and pedagogical practices by contributing to the personal and professional development of the involved educators, students, and associated stakeholders.