Dr Monika Frania – Doctor of Humanities (2011). She completed master’s studies in pedagogy (2005) at the University of Silesia in Katowice at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology and master’s studies in political science, specializing in journalism and social communication (2007) at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Currently, she is employed as a professor at the Institute of Pedagogy at the University of Silesia, and her research focuses on issues related to digital and media education, new technologies and innovations in teaching. When preparing future teachers for work, he tries to convince them to adopt a creative methodological approach.
Winner of the TRANSFORM4EUROPE Innovative Teaching Award (2022). He cooperates with practitioners and theorists of media and digital education from many European universities. Author of numerous publications, trainer and implementer of national and international research projects.
In the years 2016–2018, she was a member of the Main Committee of the National Digital Olympiad for secondary school students of the Nowoczesna Polska Foundation in Warsaw. It popularizes science among a wider audience during events such as: Silesian Science Festival, Meetings with Science and Student Life, Festival Znanosti (Split, Croatia).
She cooperates with the Open University of Silesia as the head of postgraduate studies offered to teachers, a lecturer at the Teacher Education Block (BKN) and a trainer at the Didactics Center, implementing and offering training, among others. in the field of creative teaching methods (storytelling, educational escape room, self-care as a prevention of burnout) and lectures on the scientist’s traveling passions after hours.
Privately: a fan of individual trips to the ends of Europe in search of whales, aurora borealis, calderas filled with clouds, trails on cliffs and primeval forests, banana and tea fields.