Educational visions

For publication list, see http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/rf2656.htmlShe is a Senior Lecturer at The Open University, focusing on educational futures, learning analytics, MOOCs, innovating pedagogy and online social learning. She has been a pedagogic adviser to the FutureLearn MOOC platform since its foundation, supporting its development of conversational learning and its recent move towards microcredentials. She is also one of the coordinators of the FutureLearn Academic Network (FLAN), linking academics from over 140 partner institutions around the world and helping to develop a focused research agenda. As lead author on the ‘Innovating Pedagogy’ reports published each year by IET, she works with colleagues to explore new forms of teaching, learning and assessment in order to guide educators and policymakers. She is also an executive member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and was Program Chair for its international conferences in 2018 and 2019.

Reader in the Institute of Educational Technology and part of CALRG since its inception. She is currently part of the organising committee. Current research interests include mobile learning and social and affective uses, how informal learning can be supported by technology, especially mobile devices and how this can support language learning. She co-edits the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, a peer-reviewed open access online journal in educational technology. For complete publication list see: http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/acj4.html