1. Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s) Riina Vuorikari
Address(es)
Telephone(s)
E-mail
Nationality
Date of birth
Gender
Work experience
Dates From March 2000 to present
Occupation or position held External expert, contracted as Project manager and Research Analyst in the field of Technology
Enhanced Learning and eLearning
Main activities and responsibilities Current tasks:
o Project manager: an EU-funded project (Teachers’ Lifelong Learning Network)
o Principal investigator: Monitoring of the eTwinning action (150’000+ teachers)
o Expert functions in various EU-funded and other projects within the organisation
October 2009 - November 2011
o Project manager and Principal investigator: a Public-private partnership project
(The Acer-European Schoolnet Educational Netbook Pilot)
Implementation and evaluation of a large-scale study on 1:1 computing in education
(6 countries, more than 8000 units)
October 2009 - June 2011
o Project manager: an EU-funded project (Quality Network for a European Learning
Exchange)
September 2010 - March 2011
o Workpackage leader: an EU-funded project (Innovative Technologies for an Engaging
Classroom)
January 2005 – September 2009
o Senior Research Analyst: co-ordination, implementation and expert positions in various
EU-funded projects (e.g. eContent plus: Metadata Ecology for Learning Resources, Aspect;
FP6: Calibrating eLearning in Schools; Hewlett Foundation: Teachers’ Network for Open
Educational Resources; LLP projects: Learning Interoperability Framework for Europe,
ePortfolio Initiative Coordination Committee)
March 2000 – December 2004
o Research Analyst: co-ordination and implementation role in various EU-funded projects
(FP5: European Treasury Browser, Open Architecture and Schools in Society; LLP projects:
European Quality Observatory)
Name and address of employer European Schoolnet, 61, Rue de Trèves, 1040, Brussels, Belgium
Type of business or sector Not-for-profit network of 30 Ministries of Education in Europe

2. Dates February 2010 - present
Occupation or position held External country expert: Nordic countries
Main activities and responsibilities External evaluator/researcher of Lifelong learning projects in Nordic countries
Name and address of employer Ellinogermaniki Agogi: Research & Development Department
Type of business or sector Not-for-profit
Dates From January 2001 to present
Occupation or position held Consultant in eLearning in Europe
Main activities and responsibilities Consulting services in eLearning to schools, universities, education authorities (e.g. Ministries of
Education) and private sector
Name and address of employer Tmi Riina Vuorikari
Type of business or sector Self-employed
Dates March 2000 – July 2000
Occupation or position held Expert for Kommitten for ett europiskt skoldatanat
Main activities and responsibilities I worked as an expert in a FP5 project (European Treasury Browser) contributing to the work of
semantic and technical interoperability, and quality issues, of a network of digital learning repositories.
Name and address of employer Department of education, Swedish Ministry of Education

3. Education and training
Dates From January 2005 to November 2009
Title of qualification awarded Doctoraat (PhD), the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS)
Name and type of organisation The Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC), the Open University of the
Netherlands
Dates From September 1998 to September 1999
Title of qualification awarded Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA)
Name and type of organisation Département Hypermédias, University of Paris 8, France
Dates From September 1997 to May 1998
Title of qualification awarded ERASMUS exchange
Name and type of organisation l'IUFM de l’académie de Versailles, France
Dates From September 1996 to May 1997
Title of qualification awarded Diplôme d'études en langue française (DELF) 2nd degré
Name and type of organisation University of Caen, France (bi-lateral university exchange programme)
Dates From January 1994 to May 1994
Title of qualification awarded Graduate level courses in Education and Arts, International Student Exchange Programme
Name and type of organisation University of Wyoming
Dates From August 1993 to December 1993
Title of qualification awarded Graduate level courses in Education and Arts, International Student Exchange Programme
Name and type of organisation State University of Arkansas
Dates From August 1991 to May 1998
Title of qualification awarded Master of Education (M.Ed)
Name and type of organisation The Savonlinna Department of Teacher Education, University of Joensuu, Finland
Personal skills and
competences
Mother tongue(s) Finnish
Other language(s)
Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing
European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user
French C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C1 Proficient user C1 Proficient user B2 Proficient user
German B2 Independent user B2 Independent user A2 Basic user A2 Basic user A2 Basic user
Swedish A2 Basic user A2 Basic user A1 Basic user A1 Basic user A1 Basic user

4. A complete list of publications (as of 2011)
Vuorikari, R. (2003a). Ressources d'apprentissage européennes. In Actes de la conférence EIAH 2003 (pp. 31-39).
Strasbourg, France: Paris: INRP.
Vuorikari, R. (2003b). Virtual Learning Environments in Schools: Overview of Open Source and Open Standards
Development in Europe. In Proceedings of Online Educa Berlin (pp. 265-268). Berlin, Germany: ICWE. Retrieved
September 23, 2009, from http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/misc/specialreports/vle.htm.
Vuorikari, R. (2004a). Methods for Sharing Open Source Content: The School Network's Perspectives. In Didamatica
2004. Italy. Retrieved September 23, 2009, from http://www.eun.org/insight-pdf/open_content_vuorikari.pdf.
Vuorikari, R. (2004b). Why Europe needs free and open source software and content in schools. Insight Special Report,
Brussels, Belgium: European Schoolnet. Retrieved September 23, 2009, from
http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/misc/specialreports/osseurope.htm.
Vuorikari, R. (2004c). Software Patents - a potential hindrance of ICT in education. Insight Special Report, Brussels,
Belgium: European Schoolnet. Retrieved September 23, 2009, from
insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/misc/specialreports/softpatents.htm.
Vuorikari, R. (2005). Can personal digital knowledge artefacts' management and social networks enhance learning? In
Proceedings of the ICL2005. Villach, Austria.
Vuorikari, R. (2006). Can European teachers find curriculum related digital learning resources? LIFE project. Project
deliverable, Brussels, Belgium: European Schoolnet. Retrieved September 23, 2009, from
http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/interoperability/life/reports/curriculum.htm.
Vuorikari, R. (2007). Can social information retrieval enhance the discovery and reuse of digital educational content? In
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM conference on Recommender systems (pp. 207-210). Minneapolis, MN, USA: ACM.
Vuorikari, R. (2007b). Folksonomies, social bookmarking and tagging: the state-of-the-art. Insight Special Report,
Brussels, Belgium: European Schoolnet. Retrieved September 23, 2009, from
insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/misc/specialreports/folksonomies.htm.
Vuorikari, R. (2008). A case study on teachers' use of social tagging tools to create collections of resources - and how to
consolidate them. In First International Workshop on Mashup Personal Learning Environments (pp. 65-68): CEUR
388. Retrieved September 23, 2009, from http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-
388/vuorikari.pdf.
Vuorikari, R. (2010). eTwinning Report 2010: Teachers’ professional development: an overview of current practice.
European Schoolnet, Brussels, Belgium. Retrieved from
http://desktop.etwinning.net/library/desktop/resources/5/55/955/43955/etwinning_report_teachers_professional_deve
lopment_en.pdf
Vuorikari, R., & Ayre, J. (2009). MELT deliverable 5.5, Final Report Phase II. Brussels, Belgium: European Schoolnet.
Retrieved September 9, 2009 from info.melt-project.eu/shared/data/melt/D5_5_PhaseIIreport_Final.pdf.
Vuorikari, R., Hartinger, S. & Ayre, J. (2007). MELT deliverable 5.2, Part II: Folksonomies – state-of-the-art, requirements
and use cases for the MELT social tagging tool. Brussels, Belgium: European Schoolnet. Retrieved September 23,
2009 from info.melt-project.eu/shared/data/melt/MELT_D5P2_Part2_final.pdf.
Vuorikari, R., Balanskat, A., & Heath, A. (2006). Thematic dossier: ePortfolio. Insight Thematic Dossier, Brussels,
Belgium: European Schoolnet. Retrieved September 23, 2009, from
http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/thematic_dossiers/eportfolio.htm.
Vuorikari, R., Balanskat, A., Hoel, T., Cannella, C., de Salvado, N., & Jokinen, T. (2005). National policies and case
studies on the use of portfolios in teacher training. In Europortfolio 2005. Cambridge, UK.

5. Vuorikari, R., & Berendt, B. (2009). Study on contexts in tracking usage and attention metadata in multilingual Technology
Enhanced Learning. In S. Fischer, E. Maehle, & R. Reischuk (Eds.), Im Focus das Leben (pp. 181, 1654-1663):
Lecture Notes in Informatics P-154; Bonn, Germany: Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH.
Vuorikari, R., Garoia, V., & Balanskat, A. (2010). Teachers’ Take on Netbooks in schools. Acer - European Schoolnet
Educational Netbook Pilot, Pre-evaluation in six European countries. European Schoolnet. Retrieved from
http://www.netbooks.eun.org/web/acer/evaluation
Vuorikari, R., Kiesliner, B., Klamma, R., & Duval, E. (Eds.). (2008). 2nd SIRTEL'08 Workshop on Social Information
Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning (Vol. 382). CEUR, Workshop proceedings. Retrieved September 23,
2009, from http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-382/.
Vuorikari, R., & Koper, R. (2009a). Ecology of social search for learning resources. Campus-Wide Information Systems,
26(4), 272-286.
Vuorikari, R., & Koper, R. (2009b). Evidence of cross-boundary use and reuse of digital educational resources.
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 4(4).
Vuorikari, R., Manouselis, N., & Duval, E. (2007). Metadata for social recommendations: storing, sharing and reusing
evaluations of learning resources. In D. H. Goh & S. Foo (Eds.), Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging
Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively (pp. 87-107).
Vuorikari, R., Manouselis, N., & Duval, E. (Eds.). (2009). Special Issue on Social Information Retrieval for Technology
Enhanced Learning. Journal of Digital Information, 10(2).
Vuorikari, R., Manouselis, N., Duval, E., & Van Assche, F. (Eds.). (2007). 1st Workshop on Social Information Retrieval
for Technology-Enhanced Learning & Exchange (Vol. 307). Crete, Greece: CEUR, Workshop proceedings. Retrieved
September 23, 2009, from http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-307/.
Vuorikari, R., & Ochoa, X. (2009). Exploratory Analysis of the Main Characteristics of Tags and Tagging of Educational
Resources in a Multi-lingual Context. Journal of Digital Information, 10(2).
Vuorikari, R., Ochoa, X., & Duval, E. (2007). Analysis of User Behaviour on Multilingual Tagging of Learning Objects. In
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology-Enhanced Learning: CEUR
Workshop proceedings; 307. Retrieved September 9, 2009, from ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-
WS/Vol-307/.
Vuorikari, R., Berlanga, A. J., Cachia, R., Cao, Y., Fetter, S., Gilleran, A., Klamma, R., et al. (2011). ICT-Based
School Collaboration, Teachers’ Networks and their Opportunities for Teachers’ Professional Development - A
Case Study on eTwinning. In H. Leung, E. Popescu, Y. Cao, R. W. H. Lau, & W. Nejdl (Eds.), Advances in
Web-based Learning (Vol. 7048, pp. pp. 112–121). Presented at the ICWL 2011, Hong Kong, China,
December 8-10, 2011.: Springer-Verlag. Retrieved from http://tellnet.eun.org/web/tellnet/home
Vuorikari, R., Gilleran, A., & Scimeca, S. (2011). Growing beyond Innovators – ICT-Based School Collaboration in
eTwinning. In C. D. Kloos, D. Gillet, R. M. Crespo García, F. Wild, & M. Wolpers (Eds.), Towards Ubiquitous
Learning (Vol. 6964, pp. 537-542). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Retrieved from
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e5647123267h3473/
Vuorikari, R., & Põldoja, H. (2008). Comparison of educational tagging systems - any chances of interplay? In
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning: CEUR
Workshop proceedings; 382. Retrieved September 23, 2009, from http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-
aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-382/paper1.pdf.
Vuorikari, R., Põldoja, H., & Koper, R. (2010). Comparison of educational tagging systems – any chances of interplay?
International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning,2.
Vuorikari, R., & Sarnow, K. (2005). Open Content and Source: European Schoolnet Riding the Wave. In F. de Vries, G.
Attwell, R. Elferink, & A. Tödt (Eds.), Conference proceedings of Open Source for Education in Europe, Research
and Practice (pp. 145-155). The Netherlands: OUNL.

6. Vuorikari, R., & Sarnow, K. (2007). European National Educational School Authorities' Actions Regarding Open Content
and Open Source Software in Education. In Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management (pp. 245-265).
IDEA Group Publishing.
Vuorikari, R., Sillaots, M., Panzavolta, S., & Koper, R. (2009). Are tags from Mars and descriptors from Venus? A study
on the ecology of educational resource metadata. In M. Spaniol, Q. Li, R. Klamma & R.W.H. Lau (Eds.), Advances in
Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 5686, pp. 400–409). Berlin Heidelberg:
Springer-Verlag. (Best paper award)
Vuorikari, R., & Van Assche, F. (2007). Collaborative content enrichment in multilingual Europe, European Schoolnet
approach on educational resources. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of
Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution (pp. 85-88). Barcelona, Spain: Firenze University Press.
Co-authored papers
Anderson, J., Vuorikari, R., Lind, L., McCormick, R., Van Assche, F., Duval, E., Dyson, K., et al. (2005). Thematic dossier:
Quality Criteria. Retrieved from http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/thematic_dossiers/qualitycriteria.htm
Breuer, R., Klamma, R., Cao, Y., & Vuorikari, R. (2009). Social Network Analysis of 45,000 Schools: A Case Study of
Technology Enhanced Learning in Europe. In Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines (pp. 166-180).
Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04636-0_18
Manouselis, N., & Vuorikari, R. (2009). What if annotations were reusable: a preliminary discussion. In M. Spaniol (Ed.),
Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 5686, pp. 255–264).
Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Retrieved from http://dspace.ou.nl/handle/1820/1849
Manouselis, N., Vuorikari, R., & Van Assche, F. (2007). Simulated Analysis of MAUT Collaborative Filtering for Learning
Object Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Social Information Retrieval for Technology
Enhanced Learning. Presented at the EC-TEL, Crete, Greece. Retrieved from http://infolab-
dev.aua.gr/sirtel2007/papers/Manouselis_et_al.pdf
Manouselis, N., Vuorikari, R., & Van Assche, F. (2010). Collaborative Recommendation of e-Learning Resources: An
Experimental Investigation. JCAL - special issue notification on Adaptive technologies and methods in e/m-Learning.
Najjar, J., Klerkx, J., Vuorikari, R., & Duval, E. (2005). Finding Appropriate Learning Objects: An Empirical Evaluation. In
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (pp. 323-335). Retrieved from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11551362_29
Schaffert, S., Vuorikari, R., & Carneiro, R. (2008). Open Educational Resources. eLearning Papers, 10. Retrieved from
http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=home&vol=10
Scimeca, S., Dumitru, P., Durando, M., Gilleran, A., Joyce, A., & Vuorikari, R. (2009). European Schoolnet: enabling
school networking. European Journal of Education, 44(4), 475-492. doi:10.1111/j.1465-3435.2009.01407.x
Tzikopoulos, A., Manouselis, N., & Vuorikari, R. (2007). An overview of Learning Object Repositories. In P. Northrup
(Ed.), Learning Objects for Instruction, Design and Evaluation (pp. 29-55). Hershey, PA: Information Science
Publishing. Retrieved from
http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/files/publications/en/1185188742.pdf
VanAssche, F., & Vuorikari, R. (2006). A framework for quality of learning resources. In U. Ehlers & J. Pawlowski (Eds.),
Handbook on Quality and Standardisation in E-Learning (pp. 443-456). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-
540-32788-6_29
Scimeca, S., Dumitru, P., Durando, M., Gilleran, A., Joyce, A., & Vuorikari, R. (2009). European Schoolnet: enabling
school networking. European Journal of Education, 44(4), 475-492. doi:10.1111/j.1465-3435.2009.01407.x
Breuer, R., Klamma, R., Cao, Y., & Vuorikari, R. (2009). Social Network Analysis of 45,000 Schools: A Case Study of
Technology Enhanced Learning in Europe. In Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines (pp. 166-180).
Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04636-0_18
Verbert, K., Drachsler, H., Manouselis, N., Wolper, M., Vuorikari, R., & Duval, E. (2011). Dataset- driven research for
improving TEL recommender systems. Presented at the 1st International Conference Learning Analytics &
Knowledge, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Retrieved from https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/289803