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ANNEKE
EURELINGS
Since February 2001, Anneke M.C. Eurelings has been Director
of the Transnational
University of Limburg, an initiative of the Dutch Universiteit
Maastricht and the Belgian Limburgs Universitair Centrum. Before
that she was the executive director of the Maastricht
McLuhan Institute (MMI). At MMI she had the overall responsibility
for setting up, executing and managing research, education and external
service in the fields of digital culture, knowledge organisation
and learning technology. She also held the position of Manager Learning
Lab. Since 1987, she has been involved with ICT and education at
the Universiteit Maastricht, first as Director of the Computing
Centre and since 1995 as the university's co-ordinator in this field.
She also was the initiator and co-ordinator of an EU project (ELECTRA),
in which four universities in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine researched
and developed electronic learning environments. This project started
in January 1996 and was successfully completed in the autumn of
1999. Prior to working at the Universiteit Maastricht, Anneke M.C.
Eurelings was employed by DutchTelecom as head of both Computing
Centre (1985 - 1987) and Information Advice (1984 - 1987). Ms Eurelings'
professional associations include: organisational chair of the Steering
Committee ECSCL2000 (European Conference Computer Supported Collaborative
Learning), member of the Programme Committee ICT & Education,
Stichting SURF (Utrecht, the Netherlands), member of the Steering
Committee of the Memorandum of Understanding on Multimedia Content
and Training of the European Commission PROMETEUS (Brussels, Belgium),
member of the "Landelijk Overleg PODIUM", a national group
of university ICT & Education advisors (Utrecht, the Netherlands).
[link
to presentation
275k ppt] ICT in Dutch Higher Education that is
coping with growing pains
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GRAINNE
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. Before moving to Bristol in 1999, she
held a senior position at the University of North London as head
of technology-based learning, with institution-wide responsibility
for recommending strategy and policy developments in the academic
use of ICT. Grainne's background is in Chemistry. 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 and is editor for the Association of Learning Technologies
journal, ALT-J.
http://www.education.soton.ac.uk/info_and_events/staff_directory/?link=individual.php&id=116
[link
to presentation 330k ppt] Connecting e-learning and
pedagogy: the search for the Holy Grail
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Workshop
Presenters
GERARD
BAARS (Erasmus University) Gerard Baars is senior educational
consultant ICT & Education at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
(Educational Expertise Center Rotterdam; http://www.oecr.nl/ICTOexpertisecentrum/english/algemeen/algemeen.html).
He is project manager of Digit@le Did@ctiek (online didactics; http://www.digitaledidactiek.nl),
a project together with the Technical University of Delft and the
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. This target of this project is just-in-time
skills development (on the area of ICT and Education) for teachers
in Higher Education. Another interesting project is the Train the
Trainer project. Experts on the area of ICT & Education are
brought together in a digital learning environment to share experiences,
products and methods.
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PAUL
BACSICH joined Sheffield Hallam University School of
Computing and Management Sciences in July 1996 as Professor of Telematics.
He is now Head of the Subject Area of Networks and Multimedia, Head
of TeRG, and, from time to time, Project Director of other projects,
currently the LMS Platform Advisory Team for Sun Microsystems/ eUniversities.
His wider research area is largely described by the general phrase
"Re-engineering the Campus" using Multimedia Telematics.
He has given many presentations at conferences around the world
on this. His current interest within this area is the topic of the
'Virtual University', particularly issues of cost-effectiveness,
institutional change management, and IT strategy (including Service
Level Agreements).
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KURT
DE BELDER studied at the Free University of Brussels
(Germanic Philology) and at the University of California, Berkeley
(Comparative Literature and Library & Information Studies).
He held a variety of library positions at UC Berkeley and Stanford
University and in 1991 was appointed Curator, Western European Literatures
& Languages Collection and Head of the Electronic Text Centre
at New York University Libraries. Since 1997 he is Chief, Division
of Electronic Services at the University Library, University of
Amsterdam and is a member of the University Library’s Management
Team. The development of the digital library, the provision of electronic
information services and the production of electronic publications
are some of the focal points of his activities. The Division of
Electronic Services includes a Digital Production Centre which maintains
an institutional repository and produces electronic journals, text
corpora, image databases, electronic dictionaries and multimedia
publications, among others. Kurt De Belder has presented papers
at conferences in the United States and the Netherlands on the digital
library, SGML, TEI, EAD, electronic publishing, Open Archives, OpenURL,
metadata, and the licensing of electronic information.
University Library website: http://www.uba.uva.nl/
Digital Library: http://digital.uba.uva.nl/
Digital Production Centre website: http://www.uba.uva.nl/digital_production_centre/
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WIM
DE BOER Drs. Wim de Boer is a researcher at the University
of Twente. He is an Educational Technologist who has taught and
supported learning since 1998. He worked on the design and development
of the TeleTOP environment, a flexible and easy to use electronic
learning environment that has been widely implemented throughout
Dutch higher education and company training. He is doing his PhD
research on performance support for flexible learning in higher
education, focusing on the implementation of technology in
educational institutions and the design and adaptability of Web-based
course-support systems. For an overview of his work and background,
see http://users.edte.utwente.nl/boerwf.
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LISA
CORLEY Is the Pedagogy Forum Co-ordinator for The Centre
for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS). The
Pedagogy Forum is a new CETIS group being launched April 2003 to
enable the UK FE and HE communities to examine and discuss the pedagogic
implications of interoperability standards and identify requirements
that can be input into the specification process. Lisa has worked
previously as a Learning Technology Adviser, developing online training
for the NHS and also supporting academics in developing e-learning
materials. Lisa's background is in Humanities, she then went on
to complete a Masters of Research in Informatics, focussing on end-user
issues.
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LINDA
CREANOR is E-Learning Adviser at Glasgow Caledonian University,
based in the Department of General, Academic and Professional Studies.
She is also a member of the team within the Academic Practice Unit
which is supporting the implementation of the University's Learning,
Teaching and Assessment Strategy. She co-ordinates a staff development
programme in e-learning, and provides consultancy on pedagogical
aspects of learning online. In the last few years Linda has been
involved in two European projects relating to online distance learning,
and has recently developed a series of training materials for the
ESF-funded Dialog On project which is promoting online learning
and encouraging virtual communities of practice in the European
Trade Union sector.
Linda's research interests include staff development for e-learning
and through e-learning, online communities of practice and their
impact on the learning process, and cultural aspects of online communication.
She has presented conference papers and has several journal publications
on these topics.
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SARAH
CURRIER Sarah Currier is Coordinator of the CETIS Educational
Content SIG, based at the Centre for Academic Practice, University
of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. She emigrated to Scotland from
New Zealand 6 years ago, where she was a librarian specialising
in cataloguing and arts and museum
librarianship. Since then she has moved inexorably through the ever-dissolving
membrane between e-learning and e-libraries, where she now considers
herself to be a librarianista, insurgent within learning technology,
bringing a passion for metadata as a method to liberate knowledge
for the masses. She has worked on numerous projects of interest,
including SeSDL, INSPIRAL and "The DNER & Learning Objects"
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JOSETTE
DONNISON After her studies in Medical Informatics Josette
Donnison has been head of the CAE department of the faculty of Medicine
at the University of Amsterdam (since 1985). In this function she
has developed many patient-simulations, tutorials and miscelaneous
educational programs. At the moment her department is also responsible
for the implementation of Blackboard, the use of various assessment
tools, the integration with other electronic study-information and
the development and implementation of support tools for both student
administration and students.
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CHRIS
GUTTERIDGE Chris is the primary author of GNU EPrints
2 software, which facilitates online archives of research papers
and other scholarly material. He can be found working as a System
Programmer, Webmaster, UNIX Admin, Teaching Support, Research Assistant
as well as EPrints developer and support (often all at once) in
the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University
of Southampton.
In his occasional spare moments Chris is one of the creators of
site totl.net, but
the less said about that the better.
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JESSIE
HEY is a research fellow with the TARDIS e-Prints project
which is implementing a sustainable institutional e-Print service
at the University of Southampton. She studied Physics at Oxford.
A qualified teacher and librarian, she has since held a variety
of information service posts including at Caltech, CERN in Geneva
and Southampton both at the Institute and the University. At IBM's
UK Research Labs she managed the Technical Information Services
and developed an Interactive Learning Centre. At Southampton she
has taught on Human Computer Interaction, electronic library and
informations skills courses. Her research has spanned complementary
areas with electronic reserves - ERCOMS, hybrid libraries - MALIBU
and now open archives. Her PhD in Resource Discovery for Digital
Libraries, in which she evaluated the Global Information Gathering
Agent GIGA - a tailored tool for searching both the visible and
invisible web, was obtained in 2002.
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ALISON
HUDSON is Head
of the
Centre for Multimedia in Education at Sheffield Hallam University.
Her subject background is education and her main responsibility
is to support the development and integration of Multimedia and
eLearning within the context of the University's Learning Teaching
and Assessment Strategy. Her work draws together educational research,
curriculum development, staff development and the production of
eLearning material. She has managed and carried out work for Government
Departments and Government Agencies and is actively involved with
European and National partners in consultancy and management roles
on a range of EU funded projects. Currently she is a member of the
programme committee for one of the first Masters degree programmes
developed for the eUniversity UK and is also a Module Leader on
the International MSc in e-learning Multimedia and Consultancy.
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SAKE
JAGER is the ICT and Learning co-ordinator for the Faculty
of Arts, University of Groningen. He has been active in CALL software
development and CALL implementation in the curriculum since 1993.
He holds an MA in English Language and Literature and Computing
for the Humanities. He is currently director of the Centre for ICT
and Learning in the Arts Faculty.
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RUTH
JENKINSON is Dean of Learning Support and Development
at Bolton Institute of Higher Education. Ruth has overall responsibility
for all central learning support services and also has strategic
responsibility for overseeing the development of e-learning within
the Institute. Ruth has compiled the Institute's e-learning strategy
and chairs the E-Learning Task Group, working with nominated e-learning
champions from each of the thirteen academic departments. Ruth has
presented at conferences and contributed to a number of publications,
which have focussed on both the development of pro-active learner
support and on the growth of electronic information within information
services.
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IAN
KEARNS
is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy Research
(ippr). Before this he worked both as an IT consultant for Bauer
and Partner AG, and as an academic in the Department of Politics
at the University of Sheffield 1992 - 1998.
ippr
is the leading UK independent think tank on the centre left. Through
our well-researched and clearly argued policy analysis, reports
and publications, our strong networks in government, academia and
the corporate and voluntary sectors and our high media profile,
we play a vital role in maintaining the momentum of progressive
thought.
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JEROEN
VAN DE LAGEMAAT (University of Twente) Between April
2000 and April 203, Jeroen was manager of the Wireless Campus, a
cooperative research and development project that partners with
the Internet, Communication and Telecom (ICT) industry in research
efforts in the area of wireless and mobile communications. This
cooperative programme is instrumental in propelling the University
of Twente to the forefront of this field in the Netherlands. This
programme focusses on three subjects: wireless and mobile infrastructures,
the use of such infrastructres in the university organisation, especially
for the support of education, and academic research on new infrastructures
and the use of these in application domains such as education, healthcare,
transport and financial services.
Since March 2003, Jeroen moved on to the area of broadband communications.
He assumed full time leadership of the NDIX and the TReNT foudation.
NDIX is the second largest Internet Exchange in the Netherlands.
The TReNT foundation is established on behalf of the thirteen municipalities
in the region of Twente to develop and operate the glass fiber broadband
infrastructure in the region. Prior to these roles, Jeroen was the
Business Director of the research institute, the Center for Telematics
and Information Technology (CTIT) of the University of Twente. Jeroen
also served the university in the capacities of teacher/researcher
in the field of computer networks design and implementation and
as project manager on a large European ESPRIT project - Lotosphere.
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NATASCHA
LUBBERDING is an educational technologist at the educational
centre at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She is project manager
of several projects, including projects on streaming video. She
is editor of the WEBstroom website.
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MAAIKE
VAN LEIJEN (University of Amsterdam) Maaike van Leijen
is project manager at the Institute for Interdisciplinairy Studies
(I2O) of the University of Amsterdam. She teaches Learning and Technology
at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and she is also member of
the "Webstroom" (Working group for Educational Audiovisual
Material) strategy group, the working group and coördinator
& editor of its website www.edusite.nl/webstroom.
Before this she worked at the Educational broadcast organization
TELEAC/NOT.
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BILL
OLIVIER is CETIS' main representative on IMS, contributing
to a number of IMS Working Groups (Learner Information, Content,
Enterprise) and sitting on the IMS Technical Board. He is also represents
CETIS on JISC FE Managed Learning Environment Steering Group, and
has helped map the FE Individual Learner Record on to the IMS Learner
Information Specification. He plays the key role in ensuring that
the UK voice is heard at IMS meetings, influencing many of the decisions
that have been taken by IMS. He also contributes to Prometeus and
CEN/ISSS discussions.
The Centre for
Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS) represents
UK Higher and Further Education on international educational standards
initiatives and advises Universities and Colleges on the strategic,
technical and pedagogic implications of educational technology standards,
including the Further Education Managed Learning Environment Programme.
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JOHAN
OOMEN works at the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision
as a project manager of several European projects on streaming media,
including BIRTH (Building of an Interactive Research and delivery
network for Television Heritage), ECHO (European Chronicles Online)
and AMICITIA (Asset Management Integration of Cultural heritage
In The Interexchange between Archives). He is editor of the WEBstroom
website.
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JOHN
PHELPS is responsible for leading a team of Learning
Technologists at Goldsmiths College, University of London in the
Centre for Excellence in Learning Technology http://www.gold.ac.uk/learning/index.php.
He has been employed in higher education for over twelve years,
initially in a research role, but most recently as a learning technologist.
He has considerable experience of developing interactive learning
and assessment tools to support a wide range of learning and teaching
activities including: automated assessment; supporting peer assessment;
and developing materials for both formative and summative assessment.
In his current role he manages a fellowship programme for academic
staff who are implementing learning technology into their learning
and teaching, and contributes to the implementation of the institutions'
learning and teaching strategy.
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CHARLES
RAY Prior to joining BT in 1995 as an account manager,
Charles successfully ran a small business providing facilities management
out source solutions for the commercial and Government sectors.
In his career in BT, Charles was involved in the formation of a
dedicated team to service BT's Internet Service Provider customers,
and the subsequent creation of BTIgnite. As an IP Consultant within
BTIgnite, Charles has provided technical and network advice to many
well-known ISP's. Charles brought his expertise to BTEducation in
November 2000, and has quickly understood the Education Market.
He is currently involved in projects and pilots around the country,
with various education and council organisations. Charles has collected
a number of accredited technical vocational qualifications, and
is currently remote studying for an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering,
with the University of London. Charles is married with 2 young children,
lives near Leicester, and works from home.
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ALEX
REID has had a total of 42 years' experience in IT,
33 of them in HE - 26 in Australia and 7 in the UK. He has been
IT Director at the University of Western Australia and at Oxford
University, and currently holds the policy and strategy role at
UWA of IT Policy Executive Officer. He also holds a part-time post
of Professorial Fellow in the School of Computer Science and Software
Engineering at UWA, with some teaching duties.He was a Professorial
Fellow of Wolfson College while in Oxford, and has held various
advisory, consultancy and committee posts in Australia (CAUDIT,
AARNet, DEST, Melbourne and Curtin Universities), in the UK (UCISA,
JISC, UKERNA), in Europe (EUNIS) and in Hong Kong. He is a Member
of ALT and has been active in the use and promotion of IT in teaching
and learning, starting with an on-line learning course in 1971;
he was responsible for bringing Plato to WA in 1982, and developed
a strategy for e-learning at Oxford; he recently completed a Report
for Curtin University (WA) on Learning Management Systems Strategy.
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GEORGE
ROBERTS is Development Director, Off-Campus E-Learning
at Oxford Brookes University. He is a Learning Technologist who
has taught and supported learning since 1986, first as a community-based
adult education practitioner and then from 1989-2000 in a commercial,
higher technical and management college where he was Director of
Training Consultancy. He has worked as training materials editor,
subsequently repurposing materials to support distance learning
and later developing a Web-based learning support environment. At
Brookes he has a policy role to encourage the development of off-campus
programmes (http://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/odl/index.htm).
His research into the discourse practices of learning technology
explores to what extent beliefs and assumptions are embedded tacitly
in artefacts of learning technology.
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TED
SMITH is Head of the JISC Technologies Centre in the
UK. Prior to this he was Dean of Engineering at Coventry University,
and Head of Computing Services / Director of the Learning Technologies
Centre at the University of Central Lancashire. He is a mechanical
engineer by training. In addition to managing the Technologies Centre,
he advises and consults on strategic issues associated with technologies
in learning and teaching.
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TON
VERSCHUREN (SURF net) Dr. Ton Verschuren received a PhD
in High-Energy Physics from Nijmegen University in 1991. He joined
SURFnet in the same year. In his current function as head of the
Innovation Management department, Verschuren is responsible for
access, middleware, and application development projects at SURFnet.
In particular he is project manager for the SURFworks-ng project.
Over the last few years he has been active in the middleware area,
mainly focussing on authentication, authorisation and directories
work, nowadays usually coined identity management. He is European
liaison on the Internet2 Middleware Architecture Committee for Education
(MACE) and responsible for middleware in the ERENA Technical Committee
(TTC).
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GEKE
WALPOT (CITO Group) Geke Walpot is educational technologist
in Cito, National Institute for Educational Measurement. She has
experience with developing national exams as well as test-development
on company level or branche level. She started developing Computer
Based Training and Testing in the times of laser discs and floppy
discs. Presently she is involved in computer based testing and training
published on CD-rom, DVD or intranet/internet. She has experience
with several itembank systems. She has also experience with the
Cito system for Computer Adaptive Testing, and develops tutorials
for the adaptive tests. She published itembanks for special criminal
investigators, for general safety regulations and ambulance assistence
on CD-rom. She designed and developed a remedial teaching CD-rom
for 7 year old children with reading problems. She developed a training
and testing site for CBR, centre for road safety and driving tests.
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VASHTI
ZARACH works for CETIS (The Centre for Educational Technology
Interoperability Standards), as Coordinator of the Enterprise Special
Interest Group. Enterprise is an IMS specification for exchanging
data such as student enrolment details between VLEs, Student Record
Systems and other systems. She is based at the University of Wales,
Bangor. Earlier this year, she helped Sharon Perry to set up the
CETIS Accessibility Special Interest Group. She also currently teaches
English GCSE in a Further Education college in Bangor. Prior to
working for CETIS, Vashti was a librarian; and worked in a Cambridge
college library, a Welsh FE library and the British Library of Development
Studies. She is currently working on a dissertation on the digital
divide for her MA in Information Management. Her original degree
was in Archaeology and Anthropology.
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