Ellen Lessner

Ellen Lessner - Ellen has worked in further education since 1984, and is currently the e-Learning Coordinator at Abingdon and Witney College.  She has been involved with a number of JISC Support and Synthesis projects since 2005, including the Learner Experience of E-Learning and most recently, Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development, both part of the JISC e-Learning programme.

For many years Ellen has been advocating the use of technology to support students' learning, making the use of 'assistive' software a normal entitlement within an educational institution, and demonstrating how this can help people to learn rather than 'disabling' their learning. She has written articles for BECTA and TechDis on this subject, delivered training in college and for outside organisations and has participated in a number of  case studies which highlight the importance of digital literacy.   Her online experience includes completing the ‘Effective E- Facilitation’ and ‘Using Social Software’ courses and facilitating and participating in JISC online conferences.