Maria Cutajar holds a PhD in e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning from Lancaster University and a Masters in Online and Distance Education from the Open University (Milton Keynes).
She teaches on postgraduate courses related to teaching and learning, and community development enhanced and mediated by networked technologies. She coordinates the Masters in Open and Networked Higher Eduction (MONHE) programme. She engages in supervision and assessment of postgraduate dissertations and theses. Maria serves as chairperson of the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) Dissertations Committee, and serves on various other committees and boards of study related to research ethics, research development and assessment, student recruitment, and programmes of study.
Her research interests broadly focus on learning and teaching using networked technologies in higher education learning settings and the adult education context generally. In learning, teaching and research enterprise she is concerned with the experiencing and sense-making of contemporary networked technologies in situated learning and teaching practices, and the contemporary academic experience generally. Through research practice, she also developed an interest in the theory and practice of phenomenography, qualitative research methods and research processes generally.