Resume

• 2013

  Let's Talk Science

  Edmonton

  Canada Area

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  University of Alberta

  University of Saskatchewan

  Canada

  University of Saskatchewan

  Canada

  Let's Talk Science

  University of Saskatchewan

  IT Support

  KPMG Professional Services

  Community and SEO Manager

  Automotive Finance and Leasing

  IT Business Analyst

  Teledom International

  University of Saskatchewan

  Sessional Lecturer

  Saskatchewan

  Canada

  Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA)

  Spanish

  Greek

  Shell Undergraduate Scholarship

  Best Graduating Student

  Carnegie Scholarship

  TotalFinaElf Undergraduate Scholarship

  Faculty Scholarship

  Erasmus Mundus Scholarship

  Teacher Scholar Doctoral Fellowship

  Equity Scholarship

  First class honours

  Bachelor

  Computer Science with Economics

  TotalfinaElf Scholar

  Shell Petroleum Scholar

  Carnegie Corporation Scholar

  Best Graduating Student (Computer Science with Economics)

  Obafemi Awolowo University

  Distinction

  MSc

  Network and e-Business Centered Computing

  Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA)

  University of Reading

  University of Saskatchewan

  PhD

  Computer Science

  Mentored teaching

  Oracle

  OCA

• Let's Talk Science

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  Microsoft Office

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  Matlab

  Teamwork

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  SEO

  Business Analysis

  Project Planning

  Problem Solving

  SQL

  Troubleshooting

  Peer Review in Mentorship: Perception of the Helpfulness of Review and Reciprocal Ratings

  Roberto Araya

  Peer review is the main mechanism for quality evaluation and peer-mentoring in the research community. Yet

  it has been criticized with respect to its summative function

  as being prone to bias and inconsistency and approaches had been proposed to improve it (e.g. double blind review). However

  relatively less attention has been paid on how well it meets its formative objective

  i.e. providing useful feedback to help the authors improve their quality of work. In our previous work we proposed a modified peer review process

  which involved a back-evaluation of reviews by the authors. This paper reports the results of a study of the application of this peer review process to support a group of teachers in Chile engage in group peer mentorship in the context of a summer continuing education course. The objectives are to find out if authors reciprocate their reviews feedback in the back-evaluation given to their reviewers

  and if the review length affects the helpfulness and authors’ satisfaction with the reviews. Our results showed that peers did not reciprocate their ratings and review length did not affect peers’ satisfaction with the reviews.

  Peer Review in Mentorship: Perception of the Helpfulness of Review and Reciprocal Ratings

  Group matching for peer mentorship in small groups

  Ethics of scientific peer review: Are we judging or helping the review recipients?

  Kewen Wu

  Exploiting the Use of Wikis to Support Collaborative Writing: A Case Study of an Undergraduate Computer Science Class

  Mapping Wiki User Contribution Types to Motivations for Participation: a Case Study

  Kewen Wu

  Mapping Wiki User Contribution Types to Motivations for Participation: a Case Study

  As we are entering the age of open social e-learning environments

  group (peer) mentorship becomes an increasingly important mode of learning. The academic peer review system can be viewed as a group mentorship system. Peer reviews have been used for over a century by the research community to provide not only quality control for publishing new research contributions

  but also as a way to provide constructive feedback to the authors and help them to improve their work. There are two critical questions that need to be addressed in both peer-review and group peer mentorship: 1) how to motivate reviewers (mentors) to give serious

  detailed and constructive feedback

  2) how to find good reviewers (mentors) for a particular author (mentee). This research addresses the above questions in the context of a group online peer-mentorship system aimed at improving the writing skills of university students using a conference peer review model.

  Can Online Peer-Review Systems Support Group Mentorship?

  Fred Phillips

  Group peer mentorship is a collaborative learning venture where peers are both mentors and mentees. Existing work had shown that trust is vital in building a strong mentoring relationship. In this research

  we implemented a modified peer review process with a group of professional accountants

  to sup- port them in group peer mentorship. Our goal was to find out how peers’ inter- personal trust scores affect their rating behavior both as mentors and as mentees. Our results show that the interpersonal trust score influences rating behavior and it depends on the roles assumed by peers in the mentoring rela- tionship.

  Dynamics of trust in group peer mentorship

  Recommendation

  Trust and Reputation Management in a Group Online Mentorship System

  Existing online mentorship systems typically match mentors and mentees manually. Recommender systems can be used to match mentors and mentees and trust and reputation mechanisms can be used to improve the deci-sion process. This paper discusses the state-of-the-art in online mentorship sys-tems

  recommender systems

  and trust and reputation mechanisms. It further proposes a five-stage process for automatic matching groups of mentors and mentees in online mentorship systems.

  Recommendation

  Trust and Reputation Management in a Group Online Mentorship System

  Scientist and educator with a demonstrated history of teaching in the higher education industry and research in the area of educational technology. Interested in educational data mining

  inclusive learning (special needs’ support) and collaborative learning.

  Bunmi Olakanmi

  PhD

  MBCS

  Research Scientist

  Automotive Finance and Leasing

  KPMG Professional Services

  Teledom International

  University of Saskatchewan

  University of Alberta