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Anita Monty is the founder and owner of the consultancy company Expect Learning.

Anita graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a M.A. in Adult Education and Educational Science. She is specialized in E-learning. Formerly she worked at The IT Learning Center, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Here she worked as an e-learning consultant. Together with teachers she developed 100% online courses based on Gilly Salmon's five stage model. All the courses are running today and offered by LIFE.

Anita has also been highly involved in the change management process at the faculty. Today almost all departments at the faculty use e-learning. Anita has presented LIFE's online courses at national and international conferences about e-learning.

Anita has a long experience in teaching adults. She has also worked at The National University of Education and Frederiksberg University College (today Metropolitan University College).

Contact information for Anita: anita@expectlearning.com

J Simon Rofe is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester (UK) jsimonrofe@le.ac.uk

He is a University Teaching Fellow, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, co-chair of the British International Studies Association (BISA)'s "Learning and Teaching Working Group" (BLT), and an elected member of the International Studies Association's "Active Learning in International Affairs" Section Executive.

Simon has published widely in the field of US foreign and diplomatic relations, and pedagogic development with a specific focus on on-line and distance learning. His recent work on the 'IR Model' entitled "The "IR model": A Schema for Pedagogic Development through the integration of learning technologies into Distance Learning (DL) programmes in International Relations", has been published in European Political Science Vol. 10 2011 pp.103-117.

Senior Learning Designer, Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester

Dr Alejandro (Ale) Armellini has been involved Higher Education learning and teaching in distance, face to face and blended learning settings. He has focused on reflective and innovative applications of new technologies in learning, teaching, assessment and research.

Ale has extensive teaching and programme development experience. He has researched virtual learning environments and a variety of synchronous and asynchronous technologies as part of on and off-site programmes. His MA and PhD tutees research the fields of educational technology and learning innovation. Research teams under his leadership have studied learning technologies and their application in diverse academic settings and programmes. ADELIE, ADDER, CHEETAH, DUCKLING, OTTER and OSTRICH are examples of projects he has led at the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester.

Ale's current research interests include learning innovation, online pedagogy, course design in online environments, institutional capacity building, computer-mediated communication in learning and teaching and open educational resources in Higher Education. He coordinates the Alliance's doctoral programme. He is active in departmental and personal consultancy work globally. http://tinyurl.com/armellini, contact alejandro.armellini@le.ac.uk.

Dr Ming Nie is a research associate in e-learning and learning technology. She works for Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester, UK.

Her research covers a range of educational technologies for Higher Education, including open educational resources, digital audio such as podcasting and voice boards, virtual worlds such as Second Life, and e-book readers.

Director, All Things in Moderation Ltd.

David has vast experience in management development and a tutor at the Open University Business School and is an experienced e-moderator.

Helen Perkins is a Lecturer and Head of School for Early Childhood Studies at Solihull College. She has researched and written on the professionalisation of the Children's workforce and has a Masters degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Sheffield. Helen has worked with QIA to develop resources for listening to learners and engaging learners in research. Helen has developed resources for the college's VLE that engage learner's in developing their research skills. She is a member of the BSBC LLN.

Helen.Perkins@solihull.ac.uk

Dick Ng'ambi, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town and head of a Postgraduate Programme in Education (Information and Communication Technologies Stream).

He is a leading researcher in mobile learning in developing contexts. His research interests are driven by his quest to exploit low-cost technologies to empower silenced and marginalized voices to become co-producers of knowledge.

His research is widely circulated and rated by the National Research Foundation (NRF). He holds a masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, UK and a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Cape Town.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/staff/gabi-witthaus

Jackie Musgrave has worked in further education for many years and has been involved in teaching and managing higher education programmes for the last eight years. She currently manages the Early Years Foundation Degree at Solihull College in the West Midlands, UK in partnership with Oxford-Brookes University. FD students attend college one day a week to study a full-time programme whilst working in full-time, paid employment. Key to the successful delivery of HE in FE for such students is the use of virtual learning environments. This interest led to her making a contribution to Gilly Salmon's new edition of her book about emoderating.

Jackie is a Registered General Nurse; she gained her Master's in early childhood education at Sheffield University. She is currently half way through her doctorate in education programme. Jackie's professional and research interests are around inclusion, child health and the professionalism of the early childhood education workforce. She has published several articles relating to these areas. She is also a visiting lecturer at Warwick University where she contributes to teaching a child health module.

Jackie's can be contacted via email jackiemusgrave@btinternet.com.

Terese Bird is a Learning Technologist and Assistant Keeper of the Media Zoo at the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester. She was learning technologist on the DUCKLING project, enhancing masters-level distance learning with podcasting, e-book readers, and Second Life.

Terese spearheaded the Learning Futures Festival Online 2010, Beyond Distance's first international academic conference to be held entirely online.

In November 2010, Terese was named a SCORE Fellow to research the use of iTunes U as a distribution channel for open learning material amongst UK universities.

Terese has worked in Higher Education in the UK and overseas since 1995 and in previous appointments did action research into and implementation of such technologies as automatic lecture capture, audience response systems, and student-created websites and multi-media.

Carol Russell is the Education Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, responsible for building the Faculty's capabilities in engineering education practice and research.

After an early career in engineering and later in engineering education in the UK, predominantly in support for distance education at the Open University, she moved to Australia.

Since then she has worked in campus universities: initially across disciplines in use of educational technology. In recent years she has returned to specialise in engineering education, including the use of educational technology in an engineering context.

She has degrees in Applied Physics and Management, and was awarded her PhD for a thesis on 'E-learning adoption in a campus university as a complex adaptive system: mapping lecturer strategies'.

Palitha is a Lecturer in e-Learning at Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester, England. Palitha's research and supervision interests include the potential of digital devices and emerging web-based technologies to support formal and informal learning; and the potential of technologies to improve open and distance learning in developing countries.

Palitha was involved in a range of research projects including IMPALA (podcasting), WoLF (m-learning), MOOSE (3D virtual worlds), GIRAFFE (wikis), and PELICANS (Web 2.0) (http://www.le.ac.uk/mediazoo).

Palitha teaches on the ICT module of the MA in International Education at Leicester and coordinates BDRA's E-Learning and Knowledge Sharing (ELKS) Community.

Previously, Palitha taught Agricultural Extension and designed low-cost educational material for agriculture development sector in Sri Lanka.

Paul Rudman researches computer-based support for learners. He currently works at the University of Leicester on SWIFT (Second World Immersive Future Teaching) which investigates the use of artificial environments, such as Second Life, to support laboratory-based learning of genetics. Other projects he has contributed to include Equator, which looked at how a city's digital representation could proactively assist city visitors, MyArtSpace (now OOKL), a service to link school field trip and classroom learning, and AtGentive, which sought to investigate the role and effects of learner attention in a children's online learning environment.

research@paulrudman.net

Prof John Fothergill is Head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester where he has also had overall responsibility for Learning and Teaching in the role of Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He has championed the use of learning technologies in his own teaching, across the University and in engineering and other educational circles.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/engineering/people/academic-staff/john-fothergill