E-Learning Technologies for Intensive Bridging Education

Loreta Juškaite was born in 1964 in Molėtai, Lithuania. She obtained the qualifications of Physicist and Lecturer (1995), a Master’s degree in Physics (1998), and the qualification of Secondary School Informatics Teacher (2005) from the University of Latvia. She has been the Head of the Physics Teachers’ Methodological Association of the Latgale District of Riga, Deputy Principal and Teacher of Physics and Informatics at the Riga Lithuanian Secondary School. She has participated in numerous national and international STEM education projects and is a co-author of several physics teaching and methodological resources designed for upper secondary education and for the transition from secondary to higher education. She has authored and co-authored a number of peer-reviewed scientific publications indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Advisory Board of the INTED (International Technology, Education and Development) Conference. Since 2011, she has been a Lecturer at Riga Technical University (RTU), where she also headed the RTU Preparatory Courses Division for more than ten years. She is currently a Lecturer at RTU and a Senior Expert and National Methodologist for General Education at the State Education Development Agency of Latvia. Her research interests focus on the development and implementation of virtual laboratories, e-tools, and digital learning technologies in physics education. In her spare time, she engages in translation between Latvian–Lithuanian and Lithuanian–Latvian.