- The Beyond Distance Research Alliance

- Current Research & development Leadership

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- Academic Journals

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Founder Director of ATIM. In addition to managing the company, helps to design and run ATIMs courses. An associate lecturer with the Open University Business School for over 15 years with experience covering both online and blended courses up to MBA level.

An experienced management developer formerly with BT, he has served 12 years in Local Government (as a Councillor, chairing major committees of Housing, Social Services and Personnel). Specialist subjects are appraisal, performance management, online development. Currently Chair of the Association for Management Education and Development.

His experience unusually straddles management, IT and training.

Lives in Chingford, on the outskirts of London (UK) within 5 miles of Junction 26 on the M25. Hobbies include travelling with his partner, playing golf and dinghy sailing. Married with 4 grown up children.

CIPD Graduate, manages recruitment and development procedures for selecting e-convenors.

Ten years of working within the leisure industry, includes corporate fitness and local Authority leisure provision. HR experience in both the public and private sectors. Is a Summer School lecturer for Middlesex University in Personal Effectiveness.

Lives in Loughton, with nine guinea pigs and two cats. Hobbies include keeping fit by running, teaching fitness classes and horse riding.

Ken worked for many years for the Open University Business School (OUBS) on staff training and the development of multi-media training materials and also for the School in a number of European countries. He worked closely with Gilly Salmon on the development of online conferencing. He is now a freelance consultant and has moderated a number of courses for ATIMOD.

An associate lecturer with the Open University for 12 years,primilarily with the Business School but currently with the Openings programme.

Was a participant on one of the first e-moderating courses and has been part of the team since then.

Started working life as a Nursery Nurse but as the result of obtaining an Open University degree changed direction to work as a manager in the voluntary sector, mainly Relate and the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Lives with husband, two labradors and one cat in an old house in Somerset which is in the very slow process of being renovated. Hobbies, apart from house renovation, are visiting the theatre, reading and travelling.

Frankie lives and work in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is Scottish by birth and Australian by adoption (since 1988). She has worked all over Australia and has lived in Tassie since 1994 and loves it. Co-Director of a micro private Registered Training Organisation, Pelion Consulting Pty Ltd, providing professional development/facilitation, online and face to face. Frankie is a dabbler in lots of 'things' online. Her passion is moderation (or facilitation as it’s known in Aussie), online and face to face.

She has facilitated teams and/or mentored other team facilitators, across Australia in a range of environments and for different purposes. These include organisational change and planning, staff professional development activities, action learning and achievement of qualifications. She has worked in private enterprise (small, medium and large), in a range of local state and commonwealth government agencies as well as in community based organisations.

Frankie likes variety (the spice of life!), enjoys learning/experiencing new concepts, sharing her learning and is very fond of chocolate and good food! She lives with her husband, daughter and cat and has a huge garden.

Gilly
(Director)

Roger
(Administrator)