Nadia Naffi

Dr. Nadia Naffi is an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology in the Department of Teaching and Learning Studies at the Faculty of Education and holder of the Chair in Educational Leadership (CLE) in Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Digital Contexts – National Bank at Université Laval.  She holds a doctorate in education (educational technology) and a master’s degree in educational technologies from Concordia University.

Naffi is also the recipient of the SALTISE 2019 Best Practices & Pedagogical Innovators Award.

As Chairholder, Naffi is interested in pedagogical innovation in digital contexts as well as competency development for the future of work. Her research focuses on :

• The ethical, critical, responsible and sustainable application of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence in education, training, talent development and upskilling and reskilling of the current and future workforce;

• The approaches in human performance technology to facilitate the intergenerational, interdisciplinary and intersectoral inclusion and integration of the current and future workforce in tomorrow’s labour market and the co-existence in the digital and AI era through which humans and machines collaborate to facilitate and develop collaborative intelligence and humans’ augmented intelligence;

• Digital citizenship and agency to combat online disinformation in the form of deepfake.