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 Student Information Points Manager at University of Edinburgh. Her role involves setting up and managing Student information Points at physical locations across the University and online. She is particularly interested in enhancing the student experience through the use of learning technologies and access to high quality learning resources. Other interests and expertise include e-books, mobile apps and the use of social networking for education. Claire has previously worked in the FE sector managing e-learning and library services and served on the ALT FE Committee for 3 years.

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.

Haydn Blackey is Honorary Treasurer and was co-opted as an ALT Trustee in 2009. In his day job Haydn is Head of the University of Glamorgan's Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) which delivers the University's Learning, Teaching and Assessment strategy, academic staff development, learning through employment and technology enhanced learning.

Martin is a Reader in the Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy at the Institute of Education. He was elected vice-chair of ALT in September 2010, and became Chair of ALT in September 2011. He will serve as President from September 2012. Martin's research interests include the impact of new technology on roles and practices within Higher Education (including how this changes what students learn and do), evaluating ICT use and the development of theory and methodologies in the field of e-learning. Martin edited ALT-J: research in learning technology from 2001-2008, is currently an editor for Learning, Media and Technology and serves on the editorial boards of Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning and Innovations in Education & Teaching International.

Norbert Pachler became Chair of the Research Committee and was co-opted as a Trustee of ALT in September 2012.

Norbert’s research interests revolve around technology-enhanced teaching and learning with a particular focus on mobile learning and e-learning. He also specializes in teacher education and development and foreign language education. He has published widely and supervises in these fields. Since 2007 he has been the convenor of the London Mobile Learning Group which brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers from the fields of cultural and media studies, sociology, (social) semiotics, pedagogy, educational technology, work-based learning and learning design. The group has developed a theoretical and conceptual framework for mobile learning around the notion of a socio-cultural ecology.