Project Documentation:
Project Team and Reporting Structure
With over forty members of staff at three Scottish higher education institutions, coordinating project activities has been a key concern. The diagram below illustrates the reporting structure adopted for this project:
Reporting Structure
Project Steering Group
The Project Steering Group represents the interests of the project stakeholders, overseeing the general strategy of the project and providing steering and advice on key issues. In addition to reporting to the Steering Group, the project teams in each institution report to internal institutional management committees (e.g. the VLE Implementation Group and the Educational Strategy Group at Strathclyde) so that the project maintains an institutional perspective and is embedded into other developments.
Project Partners
The partners in this project are:
- University of Strathclyde
- Glasgow Caledonian University Business School
- University of Glasgow
Local Management Groups
Within each institution there is a core Project Team led by the Project Co-ordinator. At Glasgow Caledonian, as well as Project Co-ordinator Gilian Roberts, the team includes Linda Creanor who is co-coordinator and e-learning advisor. At Glasgow the Project Team includes the Project Co-ordinator and supporting technical and evaluation staff members (to be appointed). At Strathclyde the Project Team includes the Project Director (David Nicol), the Project Manager (Catherine Owen), the VLE Project Leader (Catherine Durkin), the VLE Champion (Jim Boyle), two learning advisors (Jenny Booth and Martin Hawksey), an evaluator (Michael Coen) and a secretary.
In each of the academic departments participating in the project there is a coordinator or e-learning champion, together with a number of academic staff involved in the transformation of assessment.
David Nicol - Project Director
Professor David Nicol is the Head of Research and Development in E-Learning within the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement at the University of Strathclyde. He is Director of the REAP project and responsible for Continuing Professional Development in E-Learning. He is a member of the Steering Group of the UK Heads of E-Learning Forum and of the Universities' Scotland, Educational Development Committee. Recent publications are on the social dimensions of e-learning, learning objects, shared workspaces, electronic voting systems and assessment including technology-supported assessment and on change management, risk and cost-benefit analysis of e-learning investments [Read More] |
Catherine Owen - Project Manager
Catherine has a background in information and library science and started her career as an archivist and librarian in the cultural heritage sector. More recently, Catherine was director of a UK-wide service based at the University of Glasgow which delivers high-quality digital resources to the higher education research community. Catherine has acted as a consultant to a broad range of e-research and digital resource creation projects in the arts, both nationally and internationally, and recently completed an MBA. |
Gillian Roberts - Project Coordinator GCU
Gillian Roberts is the Caledonian Business School (CBS) Research Fellow in Communications and Information Technology (C&IT) in learning and teaching, at the Glasgow Caledonian University. Gillian has extensive experience of developing and using learning online with full time campus based students. |
Steve Draper - Project Coordinator GU
Steve Draper is an academic in the Psychology Department at the University of Glasgow. His primary role is as a research, mainly on HCI (Human Computer Interaction), using technology in learning and teaching ("CAL") and how to evaluate that, and in IR (Information Retrieval). His teaching is mainly on HCI and on education [Read More] |
Catherine Durkin - VLE Project Leader Catherine Durkin is VLE Project Leader for the University of Strathclyde. Reporting to the Vice Principal for Learning and Teaching, she works with three departments across the University (Centre for Academic Practice, Learning Services and IT Services) to co-ordinate the University’s central VLE Initiative. Catherine also sits on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment Implementation Group, and has been actively involved in taking forward the development of the University’s e-Learning Strategy. |
Jim Boyle - Academic Champion
As well as being former Head of Department for Mechanical Engineering and Chair for the , Virtual Learning Environment Implementation Group, Jim is also the University of Strathclyde's Academic Champion for the introduction of the institutional Virtual Learning Environment and E-Learning Strategy. [Read More]
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Michael Coen - Evaluator
Michael Coen is a charted management accountant, with experience in that capacity in the National Health Service and the University of Strathclyde. Between 1993 and 2000 Michael became involved in the design and implementation of information systems, initially while on secondment to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council and then within the University, managing the implementation of a number of administrative systems. Since 2000 Michael has managed a number of projects and initiatives related to the effective management of information and information systems in education |
Linda Creanor - Co-coordinator/e-Learning Advisor GCU
Linda is senior lecturer (e-learning) at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is responsible for the University’s continuing professional development programme in e-learning, provides support and consultancy in e-learning to the academic Schools in GCU, supervises staff undertaking the PgC in Learning & Teaching in HE and is developing e-learning modules at Masters level. She is a member of the Higher Education Academy, sits on the Association for Learning Technology's membership executive committee, and is the institutional representative for ALT. [Read More] |
Jenny Booth - Teaching & Learning Technology Adviser
Jenny has recently worked as an elearning developer for the Eurocontrol Institute of Air Navigation Studies in Luxembourg, and then as a learning technologist at National University of Ireland, Galway. Prior to this Jenny worked for an educational publishing company. She gained an MSc with Distinction in Multimedia Communications from University of Paisley in 2003. |
Martin Hawksey - Teaching & Learning Technology Adviser
Martin has worked in a number of e-learning contexts, commercial and academic, providing high level technical and pedagogical support on a diverse range of projects. In 2002 he graduated from Napier University with a MSc distinction in Multimedia and Interactive Systems, also winning a University Medal for his investigation of desktop Virtual Environments. |
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