I am a researcher attached to the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services. My main focus is learning design: engaging teachers in the creative, and appropriate, use of digital technologies. I am currently involved in the Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) project funded by the ESRC/EPSRC and led by the Institute of Education, and also in a newly commissioned (November 2010) study of the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) (funded by JISC). In recent years I have also led an investigation (Thema) into learning from the students' perspective and am aiming to integrate the findings into my work with teachers.

Research is my second career: after finishing university the first time round (BA in French & Russian) I worked in the commercial software sector for 15 years, including a year spent (almost) on the beach in San Diego, California. Another job and two children later I went back to university: first an MSc in Human-Centred Computer Systems at Sussex where, short of inspiration for a dissertation topic, I "fell" into technology-enhanced learning (TEL). Bitten by the research bug I then went on to do a PhD in Educational Technology in Birmingham, and have been working in Oxford since 2003.

I am a member of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and was elected a trustee in September 2009.

Home is in a village outside Oxford: small house and large garden shared with husband, offspring (aged 20 and 16) and three cats. We have recently installed photo-voltaic cells on our roof and are selling energy back to the electricity company!

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liz.masterman{at}oucs.ox.ac.uk