Kristina Schneider is an organizational learning and performance technologist, merging instructional and systems technology with knowledge, project and operations management. Her current position has her overseeing the overall operations of Aviation Strategies International (ASI), a small yet highly reputable Montreal-based aviation management consulting and training firm with an international network of associates and business clientele. She has recently been appointed the Learning Strategies and Educational Technology Services of the ASI Institute, the professional development and training division of ASI.

In 2008, Kristina completed a Master’s degree in Educational Technology. Her thesis focussed on the authority and credibility of bloggers in the field of training and development, investigating the value of edublogging as a form of self-directed learning as well as its potential contribution to communities of practice. The study was reformatted and published under the title “Edublogging: a qualitative study of training and development bloggers” and has already been well received and recommended by the educational technology community. In April 2010, she was invited to join the team of contributors at Brandon Hall’s Workplace Learning Today, where she was a member and an active blogger until the blog was discontinued in July 2011.

A strong believer of research into practice, Kristina has since been engaged in research on communities of practice and knowledge management, and though she applies this mostly in her professional life in organizational/corporate professional development and training, she sees the value in cultivating such communities for social actions.

Education and encouraging others to think critically has been the focus of Kristina’s work and studies for the past ten years. She is specifically interested in evidence-based decision making, creative and critical thinking, logical reasoning, research into practice, social learning, open innovation and collaborative expertise.

Kristina brings to the table over ten years of professional training and development expertise in the areas of instructional design and development for e-learning, blended learning and distance education, organizational learning and professional development strategies, social learning applications, performance technology, knowledge management and transfer, communities of practice and other collective expertise networks.