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Sarah Sherman, BLE Service Manager - Project Manager
Upon completing a BSc in Psychology at University College London (UCL), Sarah trained at the Institute of Education (IOE), qualifying as a primary school teacher and teaching Year 5 students in southeast London. Following this, she worked as an educational research assistant at the IOE, before moving on to JISC in 2001. As the Collections Access Manager for the Collections Team, Sarah managed the acquisitions and subscriptions for UK HE and FE libraries to the online collection negotiated and managed by JISC. Three years later, she moved to the JISC Regional Support Centre in London as an e-learning adviser, providing strategic advice to senior managers in small London-based HE institutions about the implementation and development of e-learning. In this role, she also developed and delivered training events for technical and academic staff and supported the use of e-learning and learning technologies to support learning, teaching and research. Sarah started working for the Bloomsbury Colleges in 2007.
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Deborah Grange, e-Learning Support and Development Officer, Birkbeck
Deborah Grange is the E-Learning Support and Development Officer, based in the CLPD and working across the College. She offers training and advice to colleagues interested in any aspect of technology enhanced teaching and learning, with particular interests in accessibility, multimedia, mobile learning, social networks, online assignment submission and feedback systems, and teaching and learning applications for tablet computers. Deborah offers a programme of e-learning workshops every term and also designs and delivers bespoke training for individuals, departments and academic teams.
Before transferring to the CLPD, Deborah worked in the School of Computer Science and Information Systems where she was part of the team that introduced the Foundation Degree in IT to Birkbeck. Prior to working at Birkbeck, she was a Computing Teaching Officer at Oxford University, where she taught academics and students from all areas of the University. She also co-wrote and taught on Oxford's Diploma in Computing, which was one of the University's first online courses. She has a PhD in cognitive psychology from Birkbeck.
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Leo Havemann, Learning Technologist, Birkbeck
Leo Havemann has a been a learning technologist at Birkbeck, University of London, since 2008, providing pedagogic and technical support for technology-enhanced learning at Birkbeck and working collaboratively with BLE colleagues. He is a co-ordinator of the M25 Learning Technology Group (a practitioner-focused group) and of ELESIG London (a local branch of a wider community of learner experience researchers). His interests include open educational practices, skills and literacies, blended learning, and technology-enhanced assessment and feedback. Previously, Leo has worked at the University of Waikato (New Zealand), and the University of South Australia, teaching a range of modules across communication, media, cultural and literary studies. In between he has also worked as a librarian in further education, and in industry in IT support roles.
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Tim Neumann, Learning Technology Fellow, UCL Institute of Education
Tim Neumann is a Learning Technology Fellow and Research Officer with the Institute of Education. His work in the Learning Technologies Unit includes the promotion and support of ICT use in education. His research interests focus on synchronous audiographic conferencing, pedagogical models for real-time web-based learning and media production.
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Sonya Powney, Learning Resources Developer, RVC
Sonya joined The Royal Veterinary College in October 1996 and has produced a range of interactive multimedia programs (seeexamples of Sonya's work) for veterinary undergraduates and vets in practice. She currently develops teaching resources for delivery over the RVC intranet and RVC Learn. Her skills include project management, instructional design, multimedia, programming, usability testing and online assessment.
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Holly Smith, Lecturer in Higher Education, UCL Institute of Education
Holly's PhD in Education explored teacher thinking using a variety of research methods including repertory grid techniques. She subsequently held posts as a Lecturer in Psychology in UK universities teaching social psychology, gender, history of psychology, social constructivism, and qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Changing her focus to Higher Education practice itself, Holly worked on professional development programmes for academic staff from 1998, initially at Liverpool John Moores University, and The Open University. She also led the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCLTHE) at UCL 2002-2011 which developed an enquiry-based approach to professional development for academics, emphasising the research teaching relationship, disciplinarity, equality, diversity and educational values and the theorising of learning, teaching and assessment by participants.
Her current research interests in Higher Education include academic practice, the professional development of HE teachers, academic identity, HE policy and e-learning.
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Jo Stroud, Learning Technologist, LSHTM
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Heidi Ward, Learning Development Manager, SOAS
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Jessica Gramp, Digital Education Advisor, UCL
Jess has a background in web development and has been working to support the use of technology in educational institutions since 2004. Her particular interests around e-assessment include running examinations using online quiz systems; typed examinations to replace the hand-written exam; and improving the speed and quality of feedback to students using a mix of contextual comments, general comments, rubrics and marking guides.
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Mira Vogel, Digital Education Advisor, UCL
Mira has a broad background in e-learning and academic development, with a particular interest in arts, humanities and social sciences. She has carried out a number of UK e-learning projects and teaches at undergraduate level. She finds Moodle more amenable than some, and likes working with peer marking and student authoring platforms.
Mira particularly works with Arts & Humanities, Laws, Social & Historical Sciences and the School of Slavonic & East European Studies.
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