Jerome Dooga

Biography

Jerome Terpase Dooga holds a PhD in comparative linguistics. He is the e/merge Africa Regional Coordinator for West Africa with particular focus on Nigeria and Ghana. He is one of the leading innovators in the use of technology for teaching at the University of Jos where he has taught English with technology since 2006. His areas of research interest include comparative linguistics, discourse pragmatics and educational technology. He led the development of the enhanced eLearning strategy at the University of Jos, an exercise that was completed in February 2012. He co-hosted the e/merge online conference in July 2012, where he shared his experience in developing an inclusive institutional elearning strategy. He trains fellow academics at the University in a special nine-month programme called the eLearning Fellowship to use technology for teaching and research. He presented the first online seminar in the e/merge Africa Network (September 2012) and has presented research papers on teaching with technology at eLearning Africa in Dakar (2009), Lusaka (2010), Windhoek (2013) and Kampala (2014), as well as at the ICEL conference in Cape Town in 2013. He has published several research articles on technology for teaching and is the co-author and editor of a new book (in press) on the subject. He won the Jos-Carnegie eLearning Fellowship (2008), the 2010-2012 Melon Scholarship for a postgraduate programme in educational technology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and the Eric Abraham Academic Visitorship for research in educational technology at the University of Cape Town in 2014.