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FOTE12 Panel Member – David Webster

Posted by Nuwa on 21/09/2012 No comments

Name: David Webster

Title: Religion, Philosophy & Ethics lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire

Bio: David has worked for various Universities, and has studied Philosophy, Hinduism and Buddhist thought. In addition to scholarly works on Buddhism and desire, the nature of belief, and other topics in Buddhist studies and the Philosophy of Religion, David has also written about the blues, video games, and death in religions. He is his Faculty¹s Teaching & Learning Coordinator, and has experience with podcasts, VLEs, and the development of e-learning in his institution.

Dave blogs and is on Twitter as @davidwebster.

His course has a Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/RPEglos/

FOTE12 Panel Member – Miles Metcalfe

Posted by Nuwa on 21/09/2012 No comments

Name: Miles Metcalfe 

Title: Founder of Relevant Department

Bio: Miles Metcalfe is a founder of the Relevant Department, an IT consultancy with the refreshingly novel approach of helping you get the most out of technology instead of selling back to you what you already know dressed up with buzzwords, hype-cycles, and strategic grids.

With 20 years experience in further and higher education, Miles was an early pioneer of extra-institutional technologies for learning and teaching. He has been involved in a range of successful projects in elearning, online collaboration, BYOD, cloud documents and email, learning space design, green IT, IT service professionalisation, and institution-wide service desk design and deployment.

Miles remains a passionate, though not a wide-eyed and uncritical, advocate of the power of digital technologies to transform learning and teaching. He believes that the potential for new technology to disrupt academic institutions has never been greater, and that smart institutions can harness technology in creative ways to bring about better outcomes for a wider audience. He finds that believing two contradictory things before breakfast is an aid to digestion.

 

FOTE12 Panel Member- Philip Butler

Posted by Nuwa on 19/09/2012 No comments

Name: Philip Butler 

Title: Senior e-learning Advisor

Bio:  Philip Butler has worked in the post-16 education sector as a teacher, manager and adviser for 30 years. He worked as a founding member of the JISC Regional Support Centre for London from 1999 until 2005 where he led on a number of strategic regional and national developments for the post-16, ACL and HE sectors.

In 2005 Philip was appointed as Senior e-Learning Adviser for the University of London Computer Centre where he started the Moodle Service and helped grow it to become the largest provider of e-Learning services to the UK education sector.

Philip has also worked as a consultant on several national projects for JISC, NIACE, BECTA, NLN, LSIS and the DTi, and presented to conferences and meetings on a range of subjects to do with embedding e-Learning and organisational transformation in the UK, Ireland, USA and India.

FOTE12 Panel Member- Jeff Haywood

Posted by Nuwa on 03/09/2012 No comments

Name: Jeff Haywood

Title: Vice-Principal for Knowledge Management, Chief Information Officer and Librarian at the University of Edinburgh

Bio: Professor Jeff Haywood is responsible for the University’s integrated Information Service which contains the Library, the IT services and the eLearning Services.  He leads current major initiatives in expanding online distance education, high performance computing services, research data management & storage services, the redesign of the University website, selection of the next generation VLE, development of technology-rich study spaces, and e-assessment.

Jeff also holds the position of Professor of Education & Technology in the University’sSchoolofEducation.  His research interests are in the development of strategies for effective use of ICT in education at institutional, national and international levels, with a particular emphasis on understanding learner experiences.  He has led, and been a partner in, numerous EU-, JISC-, SFC- and Research Council-funded projects in the field of technology in higher education and lifelong learning.

Jeff is a member of the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Board (www.jisc.ac.uk), its Transition Group and past Chair of the Coimbra Group Taskforce on E-learning (www.coimbra-group.be).  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Homepage:  http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/jhaywood

FOTE12 Panel Member- Maren Deepwell

Posted by Nuwa on 03/09/2012 No comments

Name: Maren Deepwell 

Title: Chief Executive at Association for Learning Technology (ALT)

Bio: Dr Maren Deepwell is the Chief Executive of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). Maren has worked for the Association for over 4 years and has an active interest in new technological developments, information management and theoretical approaches to learning and teaching. With a PhD in Anthropology from UCL Maren’s particular interest lies in understanding the impact of technology on human interaction and the role of technology in changing the way we learn.

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