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Jakob Pedersen

Project Manager
Wynberg

Summary

Skilled Online Education Project Manager with over 10 years of experience in African higher education. Proven ability in managing projects, collaborating with diverse stakeholders, and creating engaging online learning experiences. Extensive background in digital resource management, learning design principles, and project methodologies.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages

Work History

Project Manager

University Of Cape Town (Contract)
11.2014 - Current

Since 2014, I have managed a fully online professional development network for academic staff and researchers across various institutions in Africa. This project, known as e/merge Africa, has engaged over 5,000 individuals through courses, online workshops, and webinars.

External Course Evaluator

Freelance
03.2018 - 11.2018
  • Contracted as an external evaluator of the Post-Graduate course in Educational Technology, for an internal report for the Andrew Mellon foundation
  • In collaboration with course leaders I headed a Utilization-Focused Evaluation, created an online survey distributed to 60 student, conducted 12 interviews with staff and students and analysed data
  • As an outcome of this project a report was produced

Project Manager

Freelance
08.2013 - 11.2014
  • Project Management for e/merge Africa (part-time)

Education

Master of Arts - Information Studies

University of Aarhus (Denmark)
Aarhus, Denmark
04.2001 - 04.2007

Bachelor of Arts - Organisation Analysis

University of Aarhus (Denmark)
Aarhus, Denmark
04.1999 - 04.2001

Technical College - undefined

HTX Slagelse (Denmark)
01.1995 - 04.1998

Skills

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Software

Experience in Linux/BSD

Server management (Linux/BSD)

Learning Management Systems

Wordpress

LAMP stack

Notion

Asana

Zoom (and other online conference tools)

Well-versed in AI tools

Timeline

External Course Evaluator

Freelance
03.2018 - 11.2018

Project Manager

University Of Cape Town (Contract)
11.2014 - Current

Project Manager

Freelance
08.2013 - 11.2014

Master of Arts - Information Studies

University of Aarhus (Denmark)
04.2001 - 04.2007

Bachelor of Arts - Organisation Analysis

University of Aarhus (Denmark)
04.1999 - 04.2001

Technical College - undefined

HTX Slagelse (Denmark)
01.1995 - 04.1998
Jakob PedersenProject Manager