Jako Olivier is a Professor in Multimodal Learning at the North-West University (NWU), South Africa. He also Leads the UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources at the NWU.
Prof Olivier obtained his PhD in 2011 during which he researched the accommodation and promotion of multilingualism in schools by means of blended and e-learning. Before he joined the NWU as Lecturer in 2010, he was involved in Teaching information technology and languages in schools in the United Kingdom and in South Africa. From 2010 to 2015 he was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts of the NWU after being appointed as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education in 2015. In 2018 he was promoted to Full Professor.
His research, located within the NWU’s Research Unit for Self-Directed Learning, is focussed on multimodal learning, open educational resources, blended learning, e-learning in language classrooms, online multilingualism and macro-sociolinguistics.
