Central Executive Committee

Claire Donlan was elected vice-chair of ALT in September 2011. She will serve a three year term, becoming chair of ALT in September 2012 and president in September 2013.

Claire is Head of Learning Resources at Middlesbrough College. Her role involves managing the e-Learning team and the Learning Resources Centre and Library Services. This also includes a cross college responsibility for e-Learning & ICT strategy. She is particularly interested in ensuring accessibility to high quality resources for all learners and staff through a wide variety of technologies including the VLE, e-books, 3D systems, mobile apps and the use of social networking for education.

Dick Moore is Chair of the Publications Committee, having been elected as a trustee for a second three year term in 2010. Dick now runs his own company Moore Answers, an IT interim/consultancy and change management house that is particularly keen on charities and education systems and infrastructure. Dick was until May 2010 Director of Technology at learndirect one of the largest e-learning organisations in the world with some 3 million learners on the system and delivering 500,000 enrolments annually. Previously Dick was Vice-President for Systems and Information at a Los Angeles-based dot.com company 'thedock.com ' an industrial auction site and before that was Director of ICT at both Sheffield College and Doncaster College, two of Europe's largest Further Education institutions. During the 80s he was Director of a new media company 'Interactive Media Resources', working with Interactive Video and Educational Software and wrote educational software and simulations for the Stock Exchange, Shell and Tandy Corporation amongst others. Dick has a BSc in Botany specialising in Taxonomy.

Gilly Salmon is President of ALT, having been elected vice-chair in 2009, and having served as chair between September 2010 and August 2011. Gilly has recently been appointed  Pro Vice-Chancellor of Learning Transformations at Swinburne University of Technology. Previously she served as Executive Director and Professor of Learning Futures at the Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia,  was Professor of E-learning and Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester, UK, and head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance. Gilly's research interests span strategies for enhancing learning with and through new technologies, the future for learning in Higher Education, and innovation through learning design. Gilly has research degrees in Change Management and ICT and pedagogy.

John Cook (PhD MSc BSc CEng MBCS CITP FHEA) is Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University. John has over 14 years previous experience as a full-time lecturer at various HEIs and in 2007 was made a University Teaching Fellow. He has over 8 years project management experience, which includes AHRB, BECTA, HEFCE (CETL Manager 2005-2008) and EC work. Furthermore, John has been part of research and development grant proposals that have attract £4 million in competitive external funding. In addition, he has published/presented around 200 refereed articles and invited talks in the area of TEL, having a specific interest in four related areas: informal learning, mobile learning, appropriation and work-based learning. He was Chair/President of the Association for Learning Technology (2004-06), he is currently the Chair of ALTs Research Committee and is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group. John sits on various journal editorial boards and conducts Assessor and review work for the ESRC, EPSRC, EU, DfES and Science Foundation of Ireland. For more information: Link to John Cook's staff webpage Link to TEL Blog webpage Link to John Cook's Twitter webpage Link to John Cook's Slideshare webpage

John was coopted as Chair of the Research Committee in 2009, having previously served as Vice-chair, Chair, and President of ALT.

Liz is a senior researcher with the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services. She was elected as an ALT trustee in September 2009. Her main field of research is Learning Design, and she is currently involved in the ESRC/EPSRC-funded Learning Design Support Environment project, part of the TLRP TEL programme. She also recently led an investigation into the experiences of Master's students at Oxford University, as part of the JISC Learner Experiences of E-learning programme. Liz also has an interest in the integration of cognitive and sociocultural approaches in the design and evaluation of learning technologies.

Matt Lingard was elected as a Trustee of ALT in September 2011 to serve a three year term.

Matt is an E-Learning Manager at City University London. He manages the support & development of learning technologies across two schools: the School of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences and the School of Informatics. Matt has worked in the education sector since 1993 and in learning technology roles since 2001, at London Business School, London Metropolitan University & the LSE. He has a Masters ICT in Education (Institute of Education) and is the Vice Chair of the ALT Publications Committee. He is particularly interested in the use of social media in education and occasionally remembers to blog as the Reluctant Technologist (http://mattlingard.wordpress.com) while more frequently tweeting as @mattlingard.