Janet Finlay
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Janet is Professor of Interactive Systems at Leeds
Metropolitan University, where she works in the Technology Enhanced
Learning Team. She has worked in human-computer interaction for many
years, with particular interests in design patterns, partcipatory
design and usability evaluation techniques. She now focuses on
technology enhanced learning. She has been a partner in two EU-funded
learning object repository projects and is currently principal
investigator for the JISC funded Streamline project and a partner in
the PERSoNA project. She is also Leeds Met’s site coordinator for the
multi-institutional HEFCE funded CETL Active Learning in Computing
and is co-organising a Disciplinary Commons for HCI educators. |
Isobel Falconer |
Isobel is a Senior Lecturer in Learning Technology at
Glasgow Caledonian University, with particular interests in learning
design, and representations. She is part of the UIDM support team for
the JISC Users and Innovation Programme. She was Project Manager and
Co-Investigator on the JISC-funded Mod4L project, part of the Design for Learning programme. Isobel was previously Research Fellow on the JISC-funded LADIE project, developing the Learning Activity Reference Model, a contribution to the e-framework. She is a Abstracts Edtor for ALT-C 2008 |
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Andrea works as a research officer for CETL ALiC (the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - Active Learning in Computing) at Leeds Metropolitan University.
She is interested in the use of technologies to support students’
learning in Higher Education. CETL ALiC is one of the communities that
will use patterns to share good practice developed by the project.
Andrea holds an MSc in E-Commerce from Leeds Metropolitan University,
and has just finalised her PhD thesis about the analysis of the
relationship between individuals’ perceptions of privacy and mobile
phone location data using grounded theory methodology. |
John Richard Gray |
John is an educational consultant with considerable experience of
staff development for higher education. He has some 20 year’s
experience of software engineering and project management; at present
he is a Prince-2 practitioner and has project-managed a number of HE
projects including the Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
for Active Learning in Computing. He has a number of publications in
the field of technology enhanced learning, assessment and teaching and
has been a partner of a number of FDTL, JISC and Higher Education
Academy funded projects focused on these approaches. He has both
industrial and recent managerial experience having been an Associate
Dean at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the project manager. |
Jim Hensman |
Jim is an Innovation Specialist at Coventry University, and works
on investigating, prototyping and advising on strategy for new ICT
developments. He is currently Technical Director of the JISC
Institutional Exemplars Project on Location Independent Working, and is
also carrying out an investigation of Innovation Networks and CoPs for
JISC. His research interests include serious games, virtual worlds, and
social networks, and he is an Associate of the Serious Games Institute
and member of the Birmingham Science City Second Life Steering Group.
He has had experience in the Business and Community engagement of the
University, and was manager of the EU co-funded CW2000 Project,
developing and delivering internet based services for SMEs. He
previously worked in the Games, Computer and Electronics industries. |
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A researcher at the London Knowledge Lab, he has
previously worked with the project Learning Patterns for the design and
deployment of mathematical games and with the WebLabs project. Together
with Carey Jewitt, he facilitated the LKL workshop series on knowledge
in social software.Before joining the Knowledge Lab he designed and
developed web-based network management software for Cisco Systems. His
research interests include Programming as a constructionist tool in
mathematics and science education, Open Source and education, Web-based
systems to support learning communities and Democratic education.Yishay
holds an MSc in computer science from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
and is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Education, London. |
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Jakki Sheridan-Ross
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Jakki is a Research Officer working at Leeds Metropolitan
University, Innovation North Faculty, for the hefce funded CETL ALiC
project (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Active
Learning in Computing). Her current research activity is centred on
innovative ways of supporting students in group and project work in
computing disciplines. PLaNet will be used to help explore and share
the research findings from the project. Personal research interests
include society and social networking; multimedia development; and
podcasting in HE. |
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Steven Warburton |
I am an e-Learning manager at King’s College London
and a Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at the University of
London where I chair the research strategy group. I am currently
working on a number of projects that include: a study of social
software in distance education settings; developing a virtual library
space (bibliospace) using social referencing software; and as part of
the EMERGE project team supporting a UK wide community of practice in
user innovation and development in the area of Web 2.0 and emerging
technologies. My research interests are focussed on questions of
identity in online learning, the dimensions of space and time in
multi-user virtual environments such as Second Life, social presence,
social net | |
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