MUGGLers in Chief
Danielle Johnstone
Danielle is Senior Online Learning Manager for global media NGO, Internews. She manages the organisation LMS and works with project teams around the world to design and deliver online learning for development workers, journalists and activists.
Danielle is particularly interested in inclusive pedagogies and accessible design and development, and also has a growing passion for Agile and organisational change methodologies.
Sultan Wadud
Wadud is a Learning Technology Manager for Learning and Teaching Enhancement and leads the Learning Design and Technology (LDT) team at SOAS, University of London.
Wadud is dedicated to promoting and supporting Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) across the institution. He manages TEL development, including the VLE, and collaborates with various departments to integrate TEL into academic and student development activities. Leading the LDT team, he ensures smooth implementation and staying up to date with the latest advancements in the field.
Wadud enjoys representing SOAS at events, fostering partnerships and advocating for TEL's effective use.
Zaheer Daleel
Zaheer is a TEL Enhancement Manager at Queen Mary University, London. Zaheer and his team look into various methods for enhancing the use of learning technologies and also introducing new opportunities to influence digital education teaching and learning. Zaheer is enjoying working on current projects such as developing a ‘Community of Practice’, the TEL Team Profile, and implementing innovative, technological solutions for QMUL staff and students.
His previous role was as TEL Manager at King’s College London, where he spent a happy six years developing tools, processes, and digital literacy for key stakeholders. He worked very closely with both in-faculty and central-TEL colleagues to bring the TEL community closer & to share research and expertise.
Zaheer is a proud former school teacher of PE, Business Studies & IT and manages a non-profit sports academy in his spare time several nights a week.
David Reid Matthews
David is a Faculty Liaison Learning Technologist in the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning (CTEL) at King's College London, providing relationship management & support for local TEL teams in the Health Faculties & Library. He is also a Product Owner for an Agile Development Team focused on all things assessment. As such, David works between central IT and Faculty teams and stakeholders. He was previously the TEL Manager for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and, before that, VLE Development Manager at Rose Bruford College. David supports and mentors annual cohorts of colleagues undertaking CMALT at KCL; and is particularity interested in policy and legislation around TEL. He has four children and, thus, no hobbies or outside interests.
Sarah Sherman
Founding MUGGLer
Sarah has been leading the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange, a centre for digital education serving seven universities, since 2007. In this role, she has led on many initiatives including the creation of an award-winning MOOC to advance academic development and courses to support digital skills awareness in students and teachers.
She also works across the wider UK HE sector facilitating the sharing of good practice in Digital Education.
Sarah founded MUGGL back in 2012, when the BLE partners migrated en masse from Blackboard to Moodle. It was her ambition to create a community of Moodle aficionados based across London HE institutions to share effective practice, solve challenges and celebrate successes.