Our Team

Eirik Wattengård is a video producer and multimedia technologist (Higher Executive Officer) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film and Video Production from Canada and has worked with film and TV in Canada and Norway for the past two decades. His professional experience includes a variety of tasks, from sound recording, videography and editing, through studio and production management, to scriptwriting, producing and directing.
Through his work with learning videos at NTNU – especially in the research project Video for Quality and Flexibility in Education (VfK), which produced specifically designed learning videos and investigated what made them good learning objects – Eirik has built a solid understanding for how video and media can aid learning in the most efficient way. Through this work he and Dr. Jonas Persson have developed a set of Production Principles for Learning Videos.
Today, Eirik produces high-quality thematically defined learning videos in cooperation with NTNU lecturers and scientists for use in the university’s courses and programmes.

Project Officer for Digital and Media Literacy at the Media & Learning Association, supporting projects and activities that promote digital and media literacy. Suann previously worked as a primary school teacher in South Korea, where she developed classroom curricula, ran a school-wide Basic Academic Skills Support programme, and coordinated a school-wide Culture and Arts Education curriculum. She has also worked as Project Manager at cody21 by Acodemy, coordinating the translation of educational resources on computer science and media literacy and training educators in platform use. Suann holds a Master of Educational Sciences from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, with a dissertation on teachers’ perceptions of digital media literacy in South Korea, and is currently pursuing a Master of Digital Media and Society at KU Leuven.

Programme Manager for Digital and Media Literacy at the Media & Learning Association. After 5 years in the field, she now oversees all Digital and Media Literacy and Media Education activities, actions, events, and projects. She manages the implementation of several Erasmus+ and other media literacy projects, covering project ideation, incubation, coordination, and dissemination. She currently serves as the main coordinator of the media literacy and societal resilience actions and initiatives under EDMO3, and supervises AI-LITERATE and YOUTHIN3. She also represents the Association within various European networks related to media and education and serves as a Specialist Representative on the UNESCO Global MIL Alliance Board.

Over the past few years, she has also been involved in developing and producing educational content. She holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies, a Master’s in Modern and Comparative Literature, and a Degree in Art History. Her professional experience includes coordinating and mediating cultural projects, such as contemporary art festivals and exhibitions in Belgium and France, as well as work in research and project development.

Dr. Kamakshi Rajagopal is a Project Manager, responsible for identifying and managing new collaboration and funding opportunities for MLA. She has developed several (nationally-funded and European) research and application-oriented projects in primary, secondary and higher education building on her experience in social sciences, artificial intelligence and linguistics. Kamakshi is also an interdisciplinary researcher in educational design and technology, with extensive experience in networked learning and social learning formats, supported by innovative technologies. She completed her doctoral research at the Open Universiteit (NL) in 2013, investigating personal learning networks and their value for continuous professional development. Kamakshi also works regularly as an evaluator for the European Commission.