Alexandra L Uitdenbogerd

Dr Alexandra Uitdenbogerd has been with RMIT Computer Science and Information Technology since 2001. She has a Graduate Diploma in Education and has taught computer-related skills for nearly 30 years. She is internationally known for her pioneering work in Music Information Retrieval. Since 2003, she has also worked in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Her goal is to determine the optimal extensive reading strategy and associated resources for additional language acquisition. In 2012, she obtained technology funding from the Victorian Government for automated optical inspection of circuit boards. In 2014, she received \$43,000 of category 1 seed funding from the Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) to better understand vocabulary acquisition from reading in English as an Additional Language. She grew up Dutch-English bilingual, and has attained CEFR level B1 in French. Alexandra is the grant project leader.