Rumyana Peycheva-Forsyth

Prof. Rumyana Peycheva-Forsyth, PhD is Professor of Education at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Education, Department of Didactics, and serves as Head of the Educational Technology Center. She also coordinates the university’s Master’s programme in ICT in Education and teaches across doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s levels.

Education & Program Leadership

• Leads the Master’s programme ICT in Education
• Teaches Theory and Methodology of e-Learning, Pedagogical Design of e-Learning, History of Computers in Education, and ICT in Research for doctoral students
• Contributes ICT-related courses to MA programmes in Educational Management, Contemporary Educational Technologies, and Pedagogy of Deviant Behaviour

Research & Innovation

Her research centres on the integration of digital technologies into teaching, learning and assessment, with particular emphasis on inclusive practices, academic integrity, and scalable e-assessment solutions. She has led or co-led several large European projects, most notably TeSLA (Horizon 2020) on adaptive trust-based e-assessment, and projects under ERASMUS+ and EU Structural Funds that developed virtual practicum environments, Web 2.0 collaborative scenarios, and university-wide e-learning capacity building.

Recent scholarly output explores the impact of authentication and authorship-checking systems on student trust and academic integrity culture, attitudes of students with special educational needs towards online assessment, and factors influencing faculty adoption of ICT for inclusive education.

Doctoral Supervision & Mentoring

• Ekaterina Popandonova – ICT for second-language acquisition among minorities
• Blagovesna Yovkova – Interactive multimedia for hearing-impaired children
• Anelia Kremenska – Web-based foreign-language training models
• Vera Pangalova – E-learning for reintegration of at-risk vocational students
• Maria Stoycheva – Collaborative distance learning for foreign-language communities
• Stoyan Suev – Web 2.0 technologies in project-based learning

Contact
r.peytcheva@fp.uni-sofia.bg
Phone: +359 2 846 40 85 (office)
Fax: +359 2 946 02 55