Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2005 - Speakers
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Wednesday 27th April 2005 |
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Speakers and seminar leaders |
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Professor Tom Boyle (BA, PhD, MSc, A.F.B.Ps, C.Psychol) Seminar: Transformation? The Potential Impact of E-Learning, Repositories and Reusable Learning Objects on the Institution. Tom Boyle is Director of the Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI) at London Metropolitan University. He 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 on learning technology. He has a long history of developing, using and evaluating innovative multimedia learning technology. For the past three years he has been leading a major project on the development, use and evaluation of learning objects that has produced marked improvements in student performance. This work resulted in a European Academic Software Award (EASA) in 2004. He is Director of the new HEFCE funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) in Reusable Learning Objects, based on a partnership of London Metropolitan, Cambridge and Nottingham universities. Professor Gráinne Conole (Bsc, PhD, MRSC) Plenary sessions Gráinne Conole is Professor of Educational Innovation in Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Southampton, with research interests in the use, integration and evaluation of information and communication technologies and e-learning and impact on organisational change. She was previously the Director of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, a centre of excellence on the development and use of information and communication technology in education. She has extensive research, development and project management experience across the educational and technical domains; funding sources have included HEFCE, ESRC, EU and commercial sponsors. She completed a PhD in X-ray crystallography in 1990 and was a Senior Lecturer until 1995, with a research interest in organometallic cluster compounds. She serves on and chairs a number of national and international advisory boards, steering groups, committees and international conference programmes. She has published and presented over 200 conference proceedings, workshops and articles, including over 50 journal publications on a range of topics, including the use and evaluation of learning technologies and is editor for the Association of Learning Technologies journal, ALT-J. Dr John Cook (PhD, MSc, BSc, CEng, MBCS, ILTM) Seminar: Transformation? The Potential Impact of E-Learning, Repositories and Reusable Learning Objects on the Institution. John Cook is Operations Manager for the Reusable Learning Objects CETL and Principal Research Fellow at the Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University. He has over 14 years' previous experience as a full-time lecturer at various HEIs and 6 years' project management experience, the latter includes AHRB, BECTA and HEFCE work. Furthermore, Cook has been principal investigator or co-investigator on research and development projects that have attracted £3.4 million in competitive external funding; he has also helped to obtain £500,000 of internal funds. In addition, he has published over 70 refereed articles in the area of e-learning, having a specific interest in four related areas: the role that dialogue can play in blended learning; the design of adaptive learning support; reusable learning objects; and informal e-learning. He is Chair of the Association for Learning Technology and is a member of the JISC's e-Learning and Pedagogy Experts Group. Cook sits on the Editorial Board for "Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development" and conducts consultancy for the EC and DfES. He is External Examiner for The Open University's module T186 "Understanding e-learning: a guide for teachers and learners" and carries out end of project rapporteur work for the ESRC. Dr Julie Coultas (BA, MSc, DPhil) Seminar: Does e-learning work? Julie Coultas is the Eduserv Research Fellow working on the Reveel project. The project is based in the IDEAs Lab at the University of Sussex and is undertaking a modified systematic review of research on the evaluation of the effectiveness of e-learning in the post-16 sector. Julie's research background is in psychology and education with a particular focus on human centred technology. Her past experience includes research on a community ICT project, a post-16 sector review for LSDA, evaluation on a DfES funded project, and work on a DfID international teacher education research project. Seminar: Sustainable business models for collaborative e-learning materials development and reuse. Charles has been CEO of Intrallect since he and two colleagues formed the company in 2000. Intrallect specialises in learning object management and Charles has been producing e-learning materials for more than 20 years. For almost 25 years Charles was an academic, teaching meteorology at the University of Edinburgh. His research group specialised in e-learning and won a European Academic Software Award in 1998 for an innovative €2.8M project that produced multilingual e-learning. Since Intrallect was formed, it has grown to become a leading provider of digital repositories. Charles has contributed to several books including the chapters on "Granularisation" and "Digital Repositories" in Reusing Online Resources published by Kogan Page in spring 2003 and he is regularly invited to give keynote addresses at international conferences. Recently Charles has also been focusing on digital rights management and removing cultural and technological barriers to the sharing and reuse of digital material. Reception speaker Diana Laurillard is Head of the e-Learning Strategy Unit at the UK Government's Department for Education and Skills, and is Visiting Professor at The Open University. She is responsible for developing a coherent e-learning strategy for the Department across all the education sectors, including training, home-based learning, workplace learning, and partnerships with private suppliers. Professor Laurillard previously held two terms of office as Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the Open University. During that period she was responsible for developing the appropriate use of learning technologies within the full range of learning and teaching methods in the University's courses, and for the structural reform at the heart of its course production operations. By the end of her second term, over 160,000 students were connecting online to the OU for aspects of their study, and over half the courses had integrated e-learning with more traditional methods. Her academic work spans some thirty years of research, development and evaluation of interactive multimedia materials and internet services in education and training, covering a wide range of discipline areas. Her book "Rethinking University Teaching" (2nd ed. 2002), has been widely acclaimed, and is still used as a set book in courses on learning technology all over the world. She has been a member of the Visiting Committee on IT at Harvard University, and a member of the Dearing Committee on Higher Education for the UK Government. This work has been recognized through her honorary degrees from the University of Abertay, and the Open University of the Netherlands. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of University College London. Dr Raquel Morales (MSc, PhD) Seminar: Next generation of learning objects: theoretical and pragmatic approaches. Raquel Morales was appointed as the Eduserv Research Fellow in Collaborative e-Learning in April 2004. Raquel's project investigates the collaborative development of reusable learning objects (RLOs) for higher education. Her work builds on earlier progress made in this area by UCeL (Universities' Collaboration in eLearning) based at the University of Cambridge. The project brought Raquel's return to Cambridge, where she had previously completed her PhD at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, investigating the X-ray astronomy of gigantic black holes. Raquel also worked in the High Energy Division of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, and at the Science Education Department. Since her return to Cambridge Raquel has been actively involved with e-learning, contributing to the facilitation of five UCeL content creation workshops and authoring two research papers. Seminar: Removing the barriers to ILT learning experiences. Following a thirteen year spell in the Royal Air Force as an Aircraft Engineer, Barry left to pursue a career in further education, subsequently completing a BEd (Hons) degree. With a particular interest in serving the needs of industry, he completed NVQ assessor awards and delivered both mainstream and work-based courses in engineering between 1995 and 2002. In 2002 Barry was appointed as Manager of the Manufacturing Centre of Vocational Excellence at North Devon College. Realising the potential of engineering e-learning, he secured Learning and Skills Council co-finance funding and leads a team of specialist development staff. In Autumn 2004 Barry completed a case study for the Learning and Skills Development agency on "Credit and Unitisation", and his article on North Devon's involvement with the national engineering e-learning project was published in the January 2005 edition of the Association for Learning Technology newsletter (ALT-N). Seminar: IPR policy in collaborative e-learning. Charlotte Waelde is on the staff of the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh and is co-director of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. Her research interests include intellectual property and the Internet both individually and together. She is particularly concerned with the development of copyright within modern society, focussing on how this area changes in response to challenges to the breadth and depth of coverage both in the terrestrial world, and in application to new technological challenges. She has authored and edited a wide variety of publications including "From entertainment to education: the scope of copyright?", "Law and the Internet: A Framework for Electronic Commerce", "Law and the Internet: Regulating Cyberspace". She also acts as consultant on copyright and other matters to international and national organisations. Seminar: Crossing boundaries: Challenges and opportunities in the collaborative development and sharing of learning objects. Heather Wharrad is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Health Informatics at the University of Nottingham and has over 20 years' experience in research, formerly in medicine and over the last 5-10 years in education and e-learning. She is Head of the Education and Health Informatics research centre in the School of Nursing, evaluation and effectiveness of e-learning is one of the main research themes within this group. Recent conference presentations (2003-2004) around her current interests in re-usable learning objects include those at ALT-C, AMEE and EASA (as a finalist). She has published widely on education issues in nursing. Alongside these research interests she has led e-learning developments within the School of Nursing and founded the School of Nursing Educational Technology group which is now a thriving community of e-learning practice and development. She has 15 years' experience as a lecturer in HE and continues to teach biological sciences, research methods and statistics across a range of nursing courses. Seminar: Improving access to the Internet for all. Wai Yu is a research engineer at the Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) at the Queen's University Belfast. His research interests are in multimodal interfaces, assistive technology, telerobotics and ambient intelligence. He received his PhD from the University of Surrey in 2000. Before joining VEC, he was a Post-Doctoral research assistant in the Computing Science Department at the University of Glasgow. |