Membership Services Committee

Purpose

To oversee all of ALT’s services to individual members and to organisational members.

Membership

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Haydn Blackey

Chair of the Membership Services Committee
| August 2009
- August 2012

Haydn Blackey is Chair of the ALT Membership Services Committee 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.

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Amanda Jefferies

Reader in Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Hertfordshire
| September 2010
- September 2013

Amanda Jefferies has been closely involved in the University of Hertfordshire’s development of e-learning technologies since 2001 and was seconded to their Blended Learning Unit from 2005-2010 where she co-ordinated their scholarship and evaluation activities. She was director for the JISC-funded STROLL project, investigating 'Learners’ Journeys' with video and audio diaries as part of their Learners Experiences of E-learning Programme. Her research interests include investigating the impact on staff and students of e-learning and the design of accessible and usable web-based learning.
 

Caroline Ingram

Director, CSI Consultancy Ltd, and JISC Advance Business and Community Engagement Manager
| August 2006
- August 2012

Dr. Caroline Ingram jointly shares responsibility for managing the JISC Advance Business and Community Engagement (BCE) team. Caroline has successfully managed her own project management and research consultancy, CSI Consultancy Ltd, since April 2003. In her position as a consultant Caroline has worked with various JISC projects and services.Prior to setting up CSI Consultancy, Caroline spent 6 years working in the higher and further education sector, for EPSRC and ESRC, latterly as a JISC programme manager. Caroline’s PhD (1998) is in the field of Geological Oceanography, she also has an MSc (1994) in Micropalaeontology, and a joint BSc honours degree in Marine Biology and Physical Oceanography (1993).
 

Douglas Gowan

Independent learning consultant and founding chief executive of the former Open Learning Partnership
| September 2010
- September 2013

Born in a mining and mill town in the West Riding. Survived 11+ and Grammar School miseducation. Graduated from Edinburgh University in spite of 1968 and all that. Founded the TUC's Course Development Unit in the 1970s and helped create a new style of active, learner-centred learning. Developed new styles of campaigning in trade unions and in 1997 set up the Open Learning Partnership.
 

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Fawei Geng

Learning Technology Support Officer at the University of Oxford.
| August 2009
- August 2012

Fawei, a CMALT member and assessor, has been supporting the use of learning technologies since 2002. As a research assistant at the University of Salford, he worked on a Computer Assisted Assessment (CAA) project, the result of which was embedded in the institutional VLE, powered by Blackboard. After joining Oxford Brookes, he was a core team member who led the WebCT upgrade. His work was recognised with an Oxford Brookes fellowship. Fawei currently provides support for Oxford University’s Podcasting and VLE. He was awarded a teaching fellow at Oxford in 2009. His most recent venture is a JISC impact study to review Oxford Podcasting activities called Listening for Impact.
 

Geoff Rebbeck

eLearning Coordinator, ILT, Thanet College
| August 2006
- August 2012

Geoff has been in Further Education for 16 years starting out as a lecturer in Health and Social Care. Prior to joining Thanet College he worked in the NHS for 20 years as a Hospital Manager both in East Kent and in the Lake District. He is now working as a Freelance consultant and coach. He is also currently working with LSIS and the IfL. Geoff was one of 15 college reps that also worked with BECTA on the first round of the e-maturity Project, completing some innovative work on aspects of staff development. He has also worked with the Institute for Learning in the use of e-portfolios for tutors as a tool for professional development. He won the 2008/9 LSIS National STAR Award for the Innovation category and was honoured at the 2008 BECTA Future Learning Awards. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Institute for Learning and holds the Qualified Teacher, Learning and Skills status.

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Gill Chester

Lead Consultant and Owner of Little Man Project Ltd
| August 2009
- August 2012

Gill runs Little Man Project Ltd who provide flexible support to training and e-learning providers. She has spent many years working within the education sector with commercial suppliers, educational practitioners and technical experts. Prior to setting up her own company she was Head of Education and Training at JANET(UK) where she was responsible for establishing a new customer training service providing a portfolio of technical courses and the deployment of an online learning and collaboration facility. In 2002 she completed a Masters in Networked Learning at Lancaster University.
 

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Julie Voce

E-learning Services Manager at Imperial College London
| September 2010
- September 2013

Julie Voce has been a Deputy Editor of ALT News and the Publications Committee since 2005. She has been a member of the ALT-C Programme Committee since 2009 and joined the Membership Services Committees in 2010. She is the E-learning Services Manager at Imperial College London and previously worked as the Learning Technologies Support Co-ordinator at UCL and a Researcher in Computer Assisted Language Learning at UMIST, where she taught on the MSc in Computer Assisted Language Learning. Julie is also Chair of the UCISA Academic Support Group and a co-ordinator of the M25 Learning Technology Group.
 

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Kerr Gardiner

Head of Learning & Technology Unit at the University of Glasgow
| August 2011
- August 2014

Kerr Gardiner is Head of the Learning & Technology Unit at the University of Glasgow, where he provides strategic leadership in technology enhanced learning and teaching. Kerr previously held roles at Aberystwyth, Reading, and Northampton with responsibility for Learning Technologies, IT, and Media Services. He has been involved in several projects include leading the Aberystwyth University participation in the HEA/JISC E-learning benchmarking exercise and the HEFCW Gwella Programme. Kerr achieved CMALT in 2009.

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Kristian Still

Assistant headteacher - Hamble Community Sports College
| September 2010
- September 2013

Passionate about 'challenging and inspiring' students with technology. Other interests include edugaming, Moodle, 121 learning and education leadership.

Maura Mbunyuza-de Heer Menlah

Senior Lecturer at the University of South Africa
| August 2011
- August 2014

Biography to follow.

Neil Morgan

Senior Contracts Manager at The Standards and Testing Agency (STA)
| August 2011
- August 2014

Biography to Follow

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Shirley Evans

Vice-Chair of the Membership Services Committee and Independent Consultant on Inclusive Learning
| May 2007
- May 2013

I have worked in the fields of education, inclusion, and technology for the last 12 years on a regional, national and international basis and as a student, practitioner, manager and policy shaper. This work has cut across HE, FE, the Third Sector and schools and a range of national organisations such as Becta, JISC, The OU and LSIS. I have recently become a member of the CMALT Development Group and look forward to working with the team and others to take this important initiative forward.

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Tom Franklin

Franklin Consulting
| August 2011
- August 2014

Biography to follow.