Conference Committee
Co-chairs
Jane Seale
University of Southampton
Jane is currently a lecturer in Educational Innovation in Higher Education at
Southampton University. Jane's interests are "disability and technology" in their broadest sense and her research activities in this field include online
identity practices of adults with a learning disability; accessibility
issues in Higher Education and the design and evaluation of assistive
technologies. Jane has published widely in all three fields and
presented at
both international
and national conferences. In her work for the Association for Learning
Technology, Jane is currently Vice Chair of the Association and
an editor of the Association
journal, ALT-J. For more details please see: http://www.clt.soton.ac.uk/JaneSeale/index.htm
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Jim Petch
University of Manchester
Jim is head of the Distributed Learning Department
(http://distlearn.man.ac.uk/) at the University of Manchester.
He
provides specialist advice on educational design, on quality
assurance and on the management of distributed learning and related
projects. Jim is co-director of the eLearning Research Centre
(http://www.elrc.ac.uk), a joint venture with the University of
Southampton, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE). He has long-standing scholarly interests in the
philosophy of science and in research and management methodologies.
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Research proceedings co-editors
John Cook
London Metropolitan University
Dr. John Cook (C.Eng) is Principal Research Fellow
& Research Manager at the Learning Technology Research Institute.
He has published over 70 refereed articles in the area of educational
technology, having a specific interest in five related areas: the
role that dialogue can play in blended learning, the design of adaptive
pedagogical agents, learning object reuse, Adult and Community Learning
(ACL) and evaluation. He is Chair of the Association for Learning
Technology and is a member of the Joint Information Systems (JISC)
e-Learning and Pedagogy Experts Group. Cook carries out evaluation
consultancy and project review work for the EC and the UK Department
for Education and Skills (DFES) Cybrarian project for digital inclusion.
His research project experience includes the JISC 'Case Studies
in eLearning Practice', various projects evaluating e-learning in
Higher Education, a completed DFES funded study of Adult and Community
Learning in UK online centres (with Becta), and the role of leading
the evaluation work package on the European Commission's Framework
5 Learning-In-Process project. Cook sits on the Editorial Board
for the 'Journal of Educational Multimedia' and 'Studies in Learning,
Evaluation, Innovation and Development.
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Denise Whitelock
Institute of Educational Technology, the Open
University
Denise Whitelock is a senior lecturer in Information
Technology working in the field of new technologies and distance
learning at The Open University's Institute of Educational Technology.
Denise has worked in the field of Science Education for the last
19 years and her research interests include virtual reality and
computer-supported collaborative learning environments in the teaching
of formal knowledge systems such as in Science and Computer Science.
She has been recently working on developing a Tutor Mentoring Tool
eMentor which provides feedback to tutors about their marking of
student assignments which forms an integral part of her computer
assisted formative assessment research. She has authored over 100
technical papers.
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Abstracts and other publications editor
Steve Ryan
London School of Economics
Steve Ryan is Director of the Centre for Learning
Technology, London School of Economics. He is lead author of the
book "The Virtual University, the Internet and Resource based
Learning",
has published and presented widely on topics relating to the use
of ICT in HE. He is co-Director of the JISC/NSF project DART and
is on the Management boards of 2 other JISC projects. He has contributed
to or led a range of national and international projects and has
undertaken consultancies for a range of organisations including
the Home Office and the Community and Criminal Justice NTO on
"E-enabled
learning".
Stylianos Hatzipanagos
King's College London
Stylianos Hatzipanagos is leader of the Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice Programme in King's Institute of Learning and Teaching (King's College London). He has a first degree in Physics, MScs in Physics Education and in Information Technology (Artificial Intelligence) and his doctoral research was on design and evaluation of interactive learning environments. His research interests are in innovation in learning and teaching, usability of educational interfaces, computer mediated communication and computer supported collaborative work.
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Committee members
Paul Bailey
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Paul Bailey is the Programme Director for the
Distributed eLearningstrand of the eLearning Programme (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/elearning)
at the Joint Information Systems Committee. Paul's responsibilities
within the e-learning programme include e-Portfolios to support
learner progression, tools and models for effective e-learning
and joining up learning environments to support regional learning.
He
is also working in partnership with the Higher Education Academy
tosupport the embedding of e-learning into institutions.
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Bob Banks
Tribal Technology plc
Bob is an e-learning consultant with Tribal Technology,
working on the borders of research and development. Development
projects have included the learndirect MLE and Tribal's "LE" product.
Research has encompassed various European collaborative projects,
and writing a number of papers. Bob has contributed to e-learning
"standards" initiatives such as IMS, but with a focus on pedagogy
and on using technology to empower learners. Before joining Tribal
Bob has worked in academic research, gaining a Ph.D. for research
on neural networks, and as a teacher in India and the UK, promoting
ICT across the curriculum.
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Frances Bell
University of Salford
Frances Bell is a Senior Lecturer in the Information
Systems Institute at the University of Salford. Her research interests
include virtual organising and the use of information and communications
technologies in teaching and learning. Frances is particularly interested
in the bridge between information systems (IS) and educational research,
specifically the use of IS (online communities) theories in educational
research, and the use of educational research in organisation-based
IS research She has published over 20 articles in conferences and
journals, including International Journal of Web-based Communities,
Education Media International, IFIP 8.2, UKAIS, ALT-C and EUNIS.
http://www.isi.salford.ac.uk/staff/fb
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Tom Boyle
London Metropolitan University
Professor Tom Boyle is the Director of the LTRI
at the LondonMetropolitan University. Tom holds degrees from three
British universities, with higher degrees in Psychology and Computing,
and he has written a book and over one hundred journal and conference
papers onlearning technology. For the past two years he has been
leading a major project on the development, use and evaluation
of learning objects that won an EASA 2004 award. He is also Assistant
Director (with responsibility for Pedagogy) for the Higher Education
Academy National Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences.
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Stephen Brown
De Montfort University
Stephen Brown is Professor of Learning Technologies
and Director of Knowledge Media Design at De Montfort University,
UK, and President of the Association for Learning Technology.
His
career includes course design, research and tutoring for the Open
University, Head of Distance Learning for BT Training, Royal Academy
of Engineering Visiting Professor in Engineering Design, Director
of the International Institute for Electronic Library Research
at
De Montfort University, Director of Knowledge Media Design at De
Montfort University and Senior Technology Adviser to the JISC
funded
Technologies Centre. At the Open University he worked on the design
of the UK's first educational interactive video disc. At BT he
pioneered
and established the use of CD based training. At De Montfort University
he directed a number of successful JISC and EU funded research projects,
led the development of the Electronic Campus and successfully led
a major bid for JISC funds to develop one of the first Managed
Learning
Environments in the UK. He has directed 10 major R&D projects
with total funding of over £3m from a variety of public and private
sources. These include IBM, BT, Hulton Getty, RTE, the Home Office,
Department of Trade and Industry, Department for Education and
Employment, the British Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum,
the Hunt Museum,
JISC, HEFCE and the European Commission.
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Gayle Calverley
University of Manchester
Gayle is the Resources and Technology Advisor
for the Distributed Learning Team. Her role involves considering
those national and international developments in technology and
infrastructure that may affect the way the Institution delivers
its course provision, and the impact of these developments on resource
provision and embedding within courses. Gayle also manages the Distributed
Learning Fund, continuously developing its processes and support
procedures to provide maximum benefit both to those who bid to the
fund, as well as those projects selected for support through this
route. Gayle works with a range of high profile national projects
and international groups, and has particular interest in the delivery
of image and streaming video material for use within learning. She
contributes to national and European strategy and legal consultations
in related areas, often in association with the BUFVC and ALT. She
is a member of the CETIS Special Interest Groups for Educational
Content, Metadata & Digital Repositories, and Accessibility.
Gayle holds secondment as the Occasional Publications Editor for
the Association for Learning Technology. She also acts as reviewer
and editorial support for a small number of unrelated education
& educational technology journals. Her background is in Applied
Optics research, followed by working on National Co-ordination Team
subject-based projects in Physics and Psychology, streaming video
projects funded by the JISC and UKERNA, in Institutional Support
for Science & Engineering Learning Technology, and for the CTI
Biology and LTSN Bioscience centres.
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Donald Clark
Epic Group plc
Donald Clark is one of Epic Group plc's original
founders. He has established Epic Group plc as the leading company
in the UK e-learning market. It is an e-learning business which
delivers consultancy, content development, products and services
across the whole e-learning spectrum. Donald has worked with clients
in the UK, US, Europe, Japan, and Australia. His background encompasses
all aspects of e-learning management and production on most major
hardware platforms, including the Internet, intranets, interactive
kiosks, interactive TV and mobile devices.Donald won the first 'Outstanding
Achievement in e-learning Award' at the World Open Learning Conference
in 2001 and is a regular speaker and writer on e-learning.
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Rod Cullen
University of Manchester
Rod Cullen taught ecology and biogeography at
Manchester Metropolitan University before taking time out to study
for a Masters in Computing Science at the University of Newcastle.
This led to an interest in eLearning and he took up a post with
the JISC service Netskills where he developed and ran training
workshops,
tutored (face-to-face and online) and developed learning materials
in effective course design for Virtual Learning Environments.
He
currently works as a Distributed Learning Advisor at the University
of Manchester where he provides specialist training and advice
in
monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance and assessment of
distributed learning courses.
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Wendy David
University of Manchester
Wendy is an advisor at Manchester University
providing advice and consultancy on all matters concerning Open,
Flexible and Distance Learning to staff within the university. As
well as tutoring in various face-to-face workshops in this area,
she coordinates and delivers several staff development courses via
blended learning, such as the SEDA accredited e-Learning for Academics
(eLfA) course. She has a wealth of experience in developing, supporting
and facilitating online and distance learning courses, which includes
the virtual learning environment WebCT.
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Hugh Davis
University of Southampton
Hugh Davis leads the Learning Technology Research
Group (LTG) within Electronics and Computer Science at the University
of Southampton. He has been involved in researching technology for
the support of learning since the mid 1980s. He is a senior member
of the Hypertext and WWW communities and was instrumental in spinning-off
a company. His current research interests include adaptive hypertext,
on-line adaptive assessment and interoperability and architectural
issues within eLearning systems. He can demonstrate the application
of this research in real learning, having run an MSc in distance
mode and having completed 3 years as Faculty Director of Learning
and Teaching.
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David Dickinson
Fujitsu Services
David served twelve years as a teacher and adviser,
followed by four years in curriculum research and development, and
then with the DfES as Technology Colleges Director. In '96 following
freelancing in the UK, Germany and the States, he joined ICL/Fujitsu
as Senior Consultant: Lifelong Learning and is now Education Manager
responsible for Fujitsu's education services road-map. David's applied-research
specialisms are personalisation and learning technology futures,
a theme on which he writes and presents regularly. He serves on
a range of advisory committees and boards including: Manchester
New Technology Institute; FISTERA (EU) and the DfES ICT in Schools
Stakeholders' Group.
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Tom Franklin
Franklin Consulting
Tom Franklin has been active in learning technology
for over 10 years in which time he has been responsible for much
of the early work on VLEs and MLEs. His current areas of interest
include standards, portals, evaluation and ubiquitous computing.
He believes that ubiquitous computing will have the most profound
impact on education and schools, colleges and universities need
to start grappling with it now. Franklin has served on several international
conference committees in both the UK and the US.
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Ian Harford
Workers' Educational Association (WEA)
Ian Harford has been director of an action research
community project on Tyneside and Northwest Regional Manager of
the Workers' Educational Association - a national voluntary provider
of adult community learning (ACL). He has since the early 1990s
actively promoted the use of information and learning technologies
in the WEA's work. He is now consultant director of the Greater
Manchester Community Grid for Learning (http://www.learners.org.uk)
and provides consultancy services to the ACL sector. He is completing
a comparative research study, Digital Nations in the Making, on
the use of newtechnologies in ACL in North America and the UK
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Bob Harrison
Toshiba Information Systems (UK) Ltd
Bob Harrison is a teacher and consultant. He
teaches for the National College for School Leadership and is currently
acting as a Consultant to The DfES Standards Unit and is working
on the Post 16 e-Learning Project. He is particularly interested
in Communities of Practice and recently presented at MLEARN 2004
on the Toshiba Ambassador Programme, a network of schools and colleges
at the forefront of wireless and portable technology. He is a
member
of the BECTA ICT research network and a member of NAACE. Bob is
a former College Principal and advises Toshiba Information Systems
(UK) Ltd.
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Gwyneth Hughes
University of East London
As e-Learning Co-ordinator at the University
of East London, I lead a team of learning technology advisors who
work with academic staff on e-learning projects. I am the course
leader for the SEDA and ILTHE accredited Application of Learning
Technologies online course: http://www.uel.ac.uk/lds/alt/index.htm.
I have a background in Science and Technology Studies but my doctorate
was in education and I am currently researching the impact of
e-learning
on student retention. I have reviewed articles for ALT-J and I
worked on the JISC and the Association for Learning Technology
project:
"The development of an accreditation framework for learning
technologists" (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epd/alt-accreditation).
The aim was to develop an accreditation scheme to provide e-learning
staff with professional development and better recognition.
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Patrick James
University of South Australia
As a senior academic (earth) scientist with more
than 30 years of continuous experience in Australian and UK Universities,
Patrick has developed a significant interest in implementing and
evaluating learning technology for more than half of that time.
This has included being a long term member of ALT and ASCILITE
(including
conference volume editor), a presenter at CAL (UK), ASCILITE (Aut.)
and AACE/Ed Media (US) conferences, a developer and implementer
of CAL, IMM, e Learning and other IST technologies in teaching
and learning and being a passionate advocate of integrating appropriate
pedagogic principles alongside technological innovations. Patricks'
current role lies in leading a major School involved in Environmentally
Sustainable Development issues in the natural and built environments,
which includes significant national, international and transnational
programs in which an e Learning strategy is fundamental. As part
of this strategy, the wider disbursement of learning technologies
to less developed nations and continents is an important goal for
improving global equity in education and growth.
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Dr Zlatko Kovacic
Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Dr Zlatko Kovacic is a Senior Lecturer in the
School of Information and Social Sciences at the Open Polytechnic
of New Zealand. He has successful academic and research career in
both contact and distance tertiary institutions. Zlatko has a varied
academic background and research interests, ranging from learning
and teaching IT, to eCommerce, eLearning, and time series and multivariate
analysis. His research output covers variety of topics of E-Commerce,
Distance Education, Time Series Analysis, Multivariate Analysis,
Econometrics, Economics, Cross-Cultural themes, and Political Science.
His current research is focused on cognitive processes in distance
education using computers and communications technologies.
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Oleg Liber
Bolton Institute
Oleg Liber is professor of eLearning at Bolton
Institute, and is also a director of the Centre for Educational
Interoperability Standards (CETIS) and project manager for the RELOAD
project, developing standards-based tools for eLearning content
and courses. He has been involved with learning technology for over
twenty years, and has managed the development of a number of systems
including the Colloquia VLE. His research interests are primarily
concerned with the use of organisational cybernetics in the education
domain, as exemplified in the report "A Framework for the Pedagogical
Evaluation of eLearning Tools", co-authored with Sandy Britain.
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Bernard Lisewski
University of Salford
Bernard Lisewski works as an Education Development
Co-ordinator in Learning Technology within the Education Development
Unit at the University of Salford. He is also Programme Leader for
the Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education Practice and Research.
His recent publications have focused on the development of learning
technology practice and the implementation of learning technology
strategies. He is currently in the second year of a four part-time
Phd in Educational Research at Lancaster University, the title of
which is: Problematizing the concept of 'communities of practice':
how can critical theory revitalize 'relations of power' within situated
learning theory - a conceptual reconstruction?
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Carmel McNaught
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Carmel McNaught is Professor of Learning Enhancement
at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Carmel has had three decades
of experience in teaching and research in higher education in Australasia,
southern Africa and Britain. She has worked in chemistry, science
education, second language learning, eLearning, and higher education
curriculum and policy matters. Current research interests include
evaluation of innovation in higher education and understanding the
broader implementation of the use of technology in higher education.
She also works in several international projects, especially in
New Zealand and in Taiwan. She has over 200 academic publications.
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Sean Mehan
Sabhal Mor Ostaig
Sean Mehan is a lecturer based at Sabhal Mor
Ostaig where he also coordinates the R&D activities of the UHI
Millennium Institute Elearning Research Group [ELG]; he participates
in research and development efforts on a diverse array of projects
connected with learning and teaching in the new educational model.
He is particularly interested in combining web based technologies
and AI to facilitate and enhance the e-learning process. Other current
research interests include [machine] learning, distributed computing,
non-linear systems and agents. He is currently an external examiner
in computing for the University of Limerick and has served as an
expert evaluator for the EC in various programmes related to e-learning,
Knowledge Society and AI. He has participated in a number of small
and large scale EC RTD projects as well as R&D efforts at UK
and national level. He has also been a scientific fellow at the
North Carolina Supercomputer Center, RTP, NC, USA. He is a member
of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAI.
http://www.isi.salford.ac.uk/staff/fb
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Som Naidu
The University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Som Naidu is Head of "Research
and Evaluation Services" in the Department of Teaching, Learning
and Research Services (Information Division) at The University of
Melbourne. As head of the section, Dr. Naidu coordinates the work
of a small group of staff who provide a range of research and evaluation
support services to academic staff and students of the University.
Staff in the Section also engages in research and evaluation activities
to do with technology enhanced teaching and learning.
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John O'Donoghue
University of Wolverhampton
John's background covers a wide range of educational
experiences, initially teaching in a social priority area school,
moving later to post graduate lecturing, advising and consultancy
for both initial teaching training and education departments and
more recently a within a National ICT Research Unit. He has held
the position of Chair and president of ALT and hosted a previous
conference. John has held honorary research fellowships at universities
both here and abroad. He now holds a visiting research fellowship
at the University of Wollongong, Australia. John is currently a
senior teaching and learning fellow at the Centre for Learning and
Teaching at the University of Wolverhampton.
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Dianne Phillips
Manchester Metropolitan University
Dianne Phillips is a founding member of ALT,
served on the executive committee for five years and is a member
of the editorial board of ALT-C. She is director of research for
MITER (Manchester Institute for Telematics and Employment Research),
at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Dianne's interest in
learning technology stemmed originally from her mainstream teaching
of social statistics and research methods in the Department of
Social
Science. This led to being asked to take responsibility for encouraging
the development of IT within courses across all departments in
the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science when 'IT' first became
a requisite element for all course developments. A second initiative
was to develop and run the university's first cross Faculty basic
IT courses for all new entrants. The main focus of MITER's portfolio
of research and projects is on understanding and supporting the
digital industries in the North West. This has included several
EU funded projects on the development of short courses on management,
marketing and learning technology for the SME sector. Currently
Dianne is project manager of two ERDF projects- Digital Media Watch,
an industry monitoring resource and Digital Media-U- which gives
SMEs access to a continuous professional development portal.
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Lawrie Phipps
TechDis
Lawrie Phipps is the Senior Advisor for Higher
Education with the JISC funded TechDis Service. As well as working
for TechDis, Lawrie is a Visiting Fellow at the Special Needs Computing
Research Unit at the University of Teesside. The research group
is looking at a range of issues including disability and mobile
learning, the use of multimedia to support disabilities, computer
assisted assessment and the development of Virtual Learning Environments
to support students with learning difficulties. Within TechDis Lawrie
is currently working on issues of accessibility and pedagogy, e-learning
as a tool for empowerment of disabled students and e-learning policy,
strategy and guidelines.
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Fred Pickering
Barnsley College
Fred Pickering is an original member of the award-winning
LeTTOL development team and an experienced online tutor. A biologist
by background, he is currently Acting Director of the Eastgate 6th
Form College, one of four colleges forming Barnsley Tertiary College
where he also sits on the ICLT Policy Committee. His Masters in
Networked Collaborative Learning at Sheffield University was conducted
almost entirely online providing insight into the issues facing
the online learner. In 1999 he was joint winner of the National
Information and Learning Technology Association (NILTA) Multimedia
Award. An associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University he is
also a member of the Board of the European Net-Trainers Association.
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Andrew Quarmby
Tameside College, Greater Manchester
Andrew is e-Learning and Professional Development
Manager at Tameside College, a General Further Education College
in Greater Manchester. He was previously Vice Principal of a Sixth
Form College, having been a Head of English earlier in his career.
He is an elected member of the RSC-NW Steering Group and a member
of the JISC-funded project team developing Union Education on-line.
He has been a member of the conference-committee for the WebCT UK/Europe
conference, and was project-manager for a first-round JISC MLE Interoperability
Pilot.
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Paul Ricketts
City College Manchester
Paul Ricketts is the Vice Principal of City College
Manchester, one of the largest FE colleges in the country. After
studying Computing at Liverpool in the late 60's he worked in various
parts of the education sector starting in secondary schools teaching
Maths and Computing. He then spent 9 years training secondary school
teachers in West Africa during which time he led many expeditions
into and across the Sahara desert. He returned to the UK in 1982
to manage training in a government funded IteC before moving into
the FE sector to manage IT staff development across Manchester in
1985. In 1999 he contributed to the development of the sector's
ILT strategy as a member of the FEFC's FE Information and Learning
Technology Committee (FEILTC), was a member of the National Learning
Network Transformation Board (NLN) and is chair of the NLN Staff
Development Working Group that is advising on a programme of support
for teachers, support staff and managers to enable institutions
to embed Information and Learning Technologies (ILT) in their corporate
strategy. Paul is a member of the JISC and was very much involved
in JISC's contribution to the adoption of Learning Technology standards
as deputy chair of the FE MLE Steering Group. He is now a member
of the Steering Committee for the Centre for Educational Technology
Interoperability Standards (CETIS).
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George Roberts
Oxford Brookes University
George Roberts is Development Director, Off-Campus
E-Learning at Oxford Brookes University. He has taught and supported
learning since 1986, first in community adult education and then
from 1989 to 2000 in a commercial management college as Director
of Training Consultancy. At Brookes George encourages development
of
off-campus programmes. He is Chair of ALT Events Committee. His
research explores to what extent ideologies are embedded in artifacts
of learning technology. He teaches on the Open University MA course,
"Language and Literacy in a Changing World" and is managing a JISC
eLearning Tools project in the field of ePortfolios.
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Timothy Rudd
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta)
Tim is currently Head of Evidence and Research
at BECTA, the Government's key partner in the strategic development
and delivery of its information and communications technology (ICT)
and e-learning strategy for the schools and the learning and skills
sectors. His team is currently working on the development of a strategic
research agenda for ICT in education that reflects key areas of
Government policy and identifies where there is a paucity of research
evidence. Tim regularly reviews independent research projects and
proposals, not just in his role at Becta, but also for other bodies
and organisations such as the Department for Education and Skills
(DfES) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Tim's
doctoral thesis was on ICT and the reproduction of social inequalities,
where he took a theoretical perspective to the study of the qualitative
and internalised dimensions of inequality and the symbolic meanings
given to both ICT and education as they relate to varying cultural
backgrounds and experiences. At Becta he worked to produce reports
and offer policy advice in relation to the digital divide and home-school-community
links.
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Malcolm Ryan
University of Greenwich
Malcolm Ryan is a principal lecturer in Education
in the School of Education and Training at the University of Greenwich.
He is a qualified and experienced educational technologist and brings
these skills to his role as Flexible Learning Co-ordinator. He is
tutor to a wide range of adult students undertaking continuing professional
development (CPD) programmes. He specialises in working with students
at a distance and has developed considerable expertise in exploiting
information and communication technology (ICT) in support of learning
and teaching and is programme co-leader of the innovative Certificate
of Professional Development in eLearning, Teaching and Training
(CeLTT). He is known for working collaboratively with colleagues
across Europe and regularly acts as a consultant within/out the
university. Recent projects include an analysis of innovative practice
in the training of trainers Europe-wide and the identification of
new competencies in the design, development and delivery of eLearning.
A member of the Editorial Committee of IJEL, on the Programme Committee
of AACE's Ed-Media conference and a reviewer for ALT-J
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Michelle Selinger
Cisco Sytems
Dr Michelle Selinger a Manager for 21st Century
Education, working in Corporate Responsibility across Europe, the
Middle East and Africa Her work involves research and dissemination
of effective solutions for e-learning in all aspects of education
and training. She works at the interface of academia and industry
drawing on successful experiences from both sectors to help organisations
develop their e-learning strategies and competences and to make
informed purchasing decisions for infrastructure and services. Her
expertise in the field of e-learning is wide ranging from professional
development of teachers in all sectors of education, to the development
of skill sets for teachers and trainers in vocational education
using e-learning materials in a blended learning environment as
well as evaluation of the use of such learning environments across
EMEA. Michelle has a strong education background and has worked
at the Open University and latterly the University of Warwick where
she was the Director of the Centre for New Technologies Research
in Education. She has recently been appointed to the Advisory Group
of the European Commission's e-Europe 2005 Action Plan. She is co-editor
of Teacher Development and a member of the editorial board for Technology,
Pedagogy and Education.
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Rhona Sharpe
Oxford Brookes University
The aim of Rhona's current post is to promote
the effective use of e-learning within teaching, learning and assessing
in order to meet the university's strategic aims. As well as providing
responsive and targeted staff development internally, Rhona provides
external courses and consultancy on e-learning topics both face
to
face and online. She has served on SEDA's accreditation committees
and was a member of ALT/JISC funded group to develop an accreditation
scheme for learning technologists. She is currently working with
the JISC on their e-learning and pedagogy programme and is associate
editor of the International Journal for Academic Development.
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Simon Surville
University of Sussex
Simon is project director of managed and virtual
learning at the University of Sussex. He is on the editorial board
of Campus-Wide Information Systems and the organising committee
for ICICTE. He holds a BA and a PhD in artificial intelligence and
is completing an MA in change management. Simon has taught, researched
and developed products at The University of Brighton, City University,
the University of Essex, the Open University, The University of
Oxford, and The University of Sussex. He has also worked in project
management and knowledge engineering in the e-learning and risk
management industries.
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Peter Sloep
Open University of the Netherlands
Peter B. Sloep is a senior educational technologist
at the Open Unversity of the Netherlands, Educational Technology
Expertise Centre and associate professor in Educational Functions
of ICT at Fontys University of Professional Education, School of
Education. He studied biology at the Free University of Amsterdam
(MSc 1978) and received his PhD from the University of Groningen
(1983). Since then he has worked at the OUNL, first as a course
developer, later to turn his attention to educational technology.
His research interest include distributed learning systems - including
specifications for interoperability, and learning networks - including
the social networks that are conducive to the emergence of a viable
learning object economy.
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David Sugden
Dewsbury College
David Sugden was a food preparation lecturer
for fifteen years before becoming ILT Development Manager at Dewsbury
College. He spends half his time touring the North of England as
one of the NLN's ILT Subject Mentors, evangelising the use of ILT.
He holds advanced catering qualifications, a Certificate in Education
and an MSc in Education and Learning Technologies. In May 2002 he
was awarded the LSDA Practitioner Award for 'The use of New and
emerging technologies'.
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Amber Thomas
University College Worcester
Amber has worked on projects for JISC, NGfL, Becta and the NLN. Amber managed the Ferl website from 2002-2005. She is currently Project Leader for "promoting use of shared digital content in the West Midlands", based at University College Worcester and funded by JISC. Much of her work has involved supporting communities of practice, and she has a particular interest in portals, repositories and online services. She is keen to promote the e-learning innovations taking place in FE colleges.
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John Traxler
University of Wolverhampton
John Traxler is Research Fellow in the Centre
for Learning and Teaching and e-Innovations Centre at the University
of Wolverhampton. He is responsible for projects that explore
the
potential of technology in education and his current focus is externally
funded work with mobile devices and interactive digital TV. He
is
working with DfID on mobile learning in sub Saharan Africa, and
was responsible for the evaluation of the LSC interactive digital
TV pilot and the EU m-learning Project. John has co-written a guide
to mobile learning for the Commonwealth of Learning (with Agnes
Kukulska-Hulme, 2004) and co-edited: Kukulska-Hulme, A. and Traxler,
J. (Eds) (2005) 'Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and
Trainers',
RoutledgeFalmer. He has organised a number of workshops on mobile
learning including the two National Workshops on Handheld Computers.
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Janice Whatley
University of Salford
Janice is a lecturer in information systems development,
e-learning and multimedia, at the University of Salford, and author
of several papers concerning online collaboration as a part of
student
learning. For a number of years she been researching educational
technology applications in Higher Education, in particular online
collaboration and team working. I am currently coordinating a European
funded project to develop an environment for students to experience
online collaboration with peers elsewhere in Europe.
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Christine Whitehouse
University of Derby
Christine Whitehouse is Head of the Centre for
Educational Development and Materials (CEDM) at the University
of Derby, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and has an
MSc in
Technology for Learning. She was Director of Staffordshire ICT
for Teachers (SIfT) at Staffordshire University delivering under
the
Government New Opportunities Fund 'ICT for Teachers' initiative
and was a designer of the SIfT model. As a research partner on
the
European Commission MINERVA - NODE project, she defined models
for international e-learning and regionally, through a UK Teaching
Company
Scheme, has developed e-learning materials for the business community.
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