Project team:

Dr Norbert Pachler (Project Director) is Reader in Education and Co-Director for the Centre for Excellence in Work-based Learning for Education Professionals (WLE Centre) at the Institute of Education, London. Norbert has extensive experience in developing, implementing and researching e-learning provision. He is a member of the Association for Learning Technologists and currently works a book for Continuum on key issues in e-learning with a particular focus on pedagogical research. Together with colleagues from the WLE Centre, where he oversees and commissions numerous projects on pedagogical innovation using new technologies every year, he has recently held grants from the Centre for Distance Education of the University of London to research the student experience on mixed-mode and online Masters-level courses. He has a keen interest in digital technologies, in particular e-learning and mobile learning, and has published widely incl. on assessment and/of ICT, inter alia Learning to teach using ICT in the Secondary School (Routledge 1999 and 2005; with Marilyn Leask) and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He supervises extensively in the field of new technologies in education, is involved in international, inter-disciplinary research networks in mobile learning, and has led an EU-funded research project on the use of ICT in FL education. His previous work on e-learning affords him a good overview of e-learning and learning design research.

Prof Dylan Wiliam is Deputy Director, and Professor of Educational Assessment, at the Institute of Education, University of London. Dr. Wiliam received his Ph.D. from London University in 1993. He was a high-school teacher of mathematics and physics before joining King’s College London in 1984, and he continued teaching at the college level until 2003, when he joined the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ as senior research director. Before that, he served as dean and head of the School of Education at King’s College for five years before advancing to assistant principal there. He is the author of more than 250 articles, books and papers on education, and is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on the use of assessment to support learning.

Dr Harvey Mellar is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Computing and leads the Learning Technologies Unit (http://www.lkl.ac.uk/ltu/index.php) at the Institute of Education. He has extensive experience in the use of e-learning in Higher Education, in Further Education and Adult and Community Learning. He led a series of projects funded by the DfES/ESF for the National Research and Development Centre in adult literacy and numeracy looking at the use of e-learning with adult learners. Recent work also includes work with the HEA/JISC Benchmarking of e-Learning Pilot, the follow-on HEA/JISC Pilot Pathfinder project PREEL (from Pedagogic Research to Embedded e-Learning) and extension Pathfinder Networking project on QA/QE in e-learning.

Dr Caroline Daly is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Assistant Director of the WLE CETL. Her research background is in professional learning in e-learning contexts. Recent research includes leading projects funded by the Centre for Distance Education, University of London, involving the construction of cases used as research tools in e-learning contexts. She was a member of the HEA/JISC Pathfinder project (PREEL) team at the IoE. Her CETL role involves co-ordinating research project development and dissemination to practitioner, researcher and academic audiences. She has published widely in the field of learning with digital technologies, for both research and practitioner audiences and is currently co-authoring with Norbert Pachler a book on key issues in e-learning which focuses on pedagogical research.

Yishay Mor holds an MSc in Computer Science from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and has 6 years as senior developer in the software industry, where he designed and took leading roles in the development of large scale network management systems. Yishay introduced UML to his unit in Cisco (of about 40 engineers) and lead its integration into the development process. He also led engineer training courses in design patterns using UML. Yishay has been leading software projects of various scale since 1995. In his roles he had been responsible for system specification, design, procurement and development. Examples include the development of an advanced proxy server for AgentSoft, specification, design and development of components of a quality of service network management suite for Cisco systems, specification and design of the WebReports web-based collaborative system, the Learning patterns collaborative system, and development for the London Pedagogy Planner (JISC funded). Currently, Yishay is leading the specification and development of a system for collaborative authoring of pattern languages for the JISC funded Pattern Language Network. http://weblabs.org.uk/wlplone http://lp.noe-kaleidoscope.org/outcomes/final/ http://sites.google.com/a/patternlanguagenetwork.org/specs http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/about/ http://pedagogyplanner.org.uk