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Senior Product Development Manager |
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<p>I undertook some early-career research in previous roles and posts at the OU. My
main area of involvement has been in Mobile technologies and learning in general,
with a particular emphasis on the mobile web, analytics and demographics of use. Data-driven
and user influenced learning design is also a key interrelated area.</p><p>A recurring
interest when time allows is in practice-based learning and international development
in education.</p> |
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<p><strong>In brief</strong></p><p>Having recently acted up to a Programme Manager
role for a successful change to our teaching provision, and a portfolio of<span>transitional</span>work
for our real-time collaboration, I'm now back to my substantive role as a Senior
Product Development Manager. In my diverse roles, I’ve been classed as a change
agent, client, supplier and sometime* project manager, and now product owner - with
an interest in how mobile, collaborative and cloud technologies converge to truly
support learning anytime, anywhere. I’m an educational technologist with a background
in Science/IT teaching and Information Engineering– crossing the country to
MK from rural Wales, via the English South coast.</p><p><sup><em>* [for which read
a focus more on requirements, functionality and user experience, rather than process]</em></sup></p><p><strong>My
job</strong></p><p>The projects managed by the Learning Systems team in the Learning
Experience and Technology [LXT] portfolio are broad, and with high strategic
impact, currently including a remit to oversee our OUVLE [an LMS, primarily Moodle]
and related plugin components. As such, I cover the following strands of the roadmap:</p><ul><li>Leadership,
advice and strategic input to a number of projects and programmes in preparation,
awaiting full approval to proceed as part of our learning platforms.</li><li>Real-time
collaboration– mainstreaming the direction and management of the cross-university
implementation programme, having transitioned to Adobe Connect for our online rooms,
from our previous<em>"OU Live"</em>platform, powered by Blackboard Collaborate.</li></ul><p>To
a lesser extent, I'm still the subject-matter expert and specialist for longer-term
areas I managed:</p><ul><li>Google Apps for Education (now G Suite) –
where I chaired the Steering Group and lead the student and curriculum pilots into
mainstreaming; ePortfolio toolset initiatives also inter-relate here. Office365 is
replacing some of this early work</li><li>Mobile web– where I initiated part
of the Mobile Strategy, and‘mobisite‘ for practitioners, also promoting
the Mobile VLE (through Moodle), mobile services and support across the OU. I was
responsible for support& maintenance of the<em>OU Anywhere</em>app, while in IT
- soon to be replaced by the OU Study app</li><li>[Student] User Interface–
where I have a specific focus on user-generated content, accessibility, annotation
and in peer sharing of rich media</li></ul><p>My particular interests are in Mobile
Learner support, where I have coordinated a number of activities including mobile
web optimisation and responsive design, mobile apps and special interest groups. My
main efforts are with external partners– both large-scale in the case of Google,
Blackboard and now Adobe, and smaller efforts with MoodleCloud, Moodlerooms,
PebblePad, and Learnosity in earlier days.</p><p>A related interest of mine is
in synchronous and cloud collaboration, where I also had the role of lead champion
for Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate, and now Adobe Connect to a lesser extent.
Finally, I have a keen interest in staff development, including regional/national
participation and hands-on activities made possible via the onsite Digilab facilities.</p> |
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<p><strong>In brief</strong></p><p>Having recently acted up to a Programme Manager
role for a successful change to our teaching provision, and a portfolio of<span>transitional</span>work
for our real-time collaboration, I'm now back to my substantive role as a Senior
Product Development Manager. In my diverse roles, I’ve been classed as a change
agent, client, supplier and sometime* project manager, and now product owner - with
an interest in how mobile, collaborative and cloud technologies converge to truly
support learning anytime, anywhere. I’m an educational technologist with a background
in Science/IT teaching and Information Engineering– crossing the country to
MK from rural Wales, via the English South coast.</p><p><sup><em>* [for which read
a focus more on requirements, functionality and user experience, rather than process]</em></sup></p><p><strong>My
job</strong></p><p>The projects managed by the Learning Systems team in the Learning
Experience and Technology [LXT] portfolio are broad, and with high strategic
impact, currently including a remit to oversee our OUVLE [an LMS, primarily Moodle]
and related plugin components. As such, I cover the following strands of the roadmap:</p><ul><li>Leadership,
advice and strategic input to a number of projects and programmes in preparation,
awaiting full approval to proceed as part of our learning platforms.</li><li>Real-time
collaboration– mainstreaming the direction and management of the cross-university
implementation programme, having transitioned to Adobe Connect for our online rooms,
from our previous<em>"OU Live"</em>platform, powered by Blackboard Collaborate.</li></ul><p>To
a lesser extent, I'm still the subject-matter expert and specialist for longer-term
areas I managed:</p><ul><li>Google Apps for Education (now G Suite) –
where I chaired the Steering Group and lead the student and curriculum pilots into
mainstreaming; ePortfolio toolset initiatives also inter-relate here. Office365 is
replacing some of this early work</li><li>Mobile web– where I initiated part
of the Mobile Strategy, and‘mobisite‘ for practitioners, also promoting
the Mobile VLE (through Moodle), mobile services and support across the OU. I was
responsible for support& maintenance of the<em>OU Anywhere</em>app, while in IT
- soon to be replaced by the OU Study app</li><li>[Student] User Interface–
where I have a specific focus on user-generated content, accessibility, annotation
and in peer sharing of rich media</li></ul><p>My particular interests are in Mobile
Learner support, where I have coordinated a number of activities including mobile
web optimisation and responsive design, mobile apps and special interest groups. My
main efforts are with external partners– both large-scale in the case of Google,
Blackboard and now Adobe, and smaller efforts with MoodleCloud, Moodlerooms,
PebblePad, and Learnosity in earlier days.</p><p>A related interest of mine is
in synchronous and cloud collaboration, where I also had the role of lead champion
for Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate, and now Adobe Connect to a lesser extent.
Finally, I have a keen interest in staff development, including regional/national
participation and hands-on activities made possible via the onsite Digilab facilities.</p> |
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