Case Studies and Examples

David Jaques BSc, MPhil, AcDipEd, FSEDA works as an independent consultant based in Oxford with special interests in Academic Staff Development, Teamwork, Learner-Centered Teaching and Experiential Learning. Formerly Head of the Educational Methods Unit at Oxford Brookes University, he provides consultancies and training workshops on teamwork and cross-cultural communication.

He has made contributions to higher education through books and training materials for 20 years and has run courses around the world with support from The British Council. and in Central and Eastern Europe for the Soros Foundation. He is particularly interested in processes and systems that provide open communication and access to change, a value that led to his making a major contribution to the Peer-Assisted Learning Handbook for Bournemouth University. He is a Fellow of SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association) and a Member of the Higher Education Academy.

Outside higher education he has worked as a T-Group trainer, trained as a client-centred consultant and run numerous workshops on Experiential Learning, Training Methods and Teamwork. His brief papers on how to design and run conferences for networking and designing interactive workshops have proved popular with conference-goers.

Gilly Salmon joined the University of Leicester in the UK in 2004 as Professor of E-learning & Learning Technologies to head the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, after 15 years with the Open University Business School. She is known for her research and practice in the arenas of development and change for creating engaged and successful e-learning processes. Her focus is on designing for participation and intervening for learning using the best of networked technologies. Her current research spans the role of ICT in enabling change in Higher Education, through the development of research-led e-learning strategy, to pedagogical innovation in a wide variety of forms including mobile learning, wikis and blogs. Gilly has two research degrees- one in online training and one in change in education.

She is known for her many articles and commentary about the future for learning technologies and as an international speaker. Prof Salmon is the author of the work now considered seminal in the field of teaching online called ‘E-moderating’, a 2 nd Edition of which was produced in 2004, as well as a recent book about designing for low cost collaboration in all online learning situations called ‘E-tivities’.