Leni Casimiro

Leni Casimiro, PhD is an educator, researcher, and administrator, serving currently as Professor of Education at the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (AIIAS), a graduate-level educational institution in the Philippines that is managed by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists based in Maryland USA. She is the Education Department Chair and Associate Dean of the AIIAS Graduate School. She has also served as the Director of AIIAS Online and, with more than 20 years in online education, worked in various capacities as an instructional designer, faculty and student support coordinator, and course developer, in addition to being an online administrator. As head of quality monitoring and evaluation of online programs, she has written quality standards for online education used in some institutions. This expertise has enabled Dr. Leni to serve as an online learning consultant and training leader in various higher education institutions in the US, Canada, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. She has also been part of accreditation teams for graduate-level programs of institutions in Asia and Africa and is a peer reviewer in scholarly journals. As a researcher, she has been a presenter and invited speaker at both local and international conferences and has published research papers in various refereed journals and books. Her research interests focus mainly on online education such as instructional design, student engagement, teaching strategies, administration, quality standards, and learning analytics, among others.