Alice has worked in education, government and industry sectors in
Australia, Austria, Germany and the UK. As language teacher, manager,
project leader and new media pedagogue, she has developed a strong and
enduring interest in vocational education, learner choice and diversity
and in technology-enhanced learning. The range and depth of her
experience and expertise is relevant to the innovation, design,
delivery and quality assurance of flexible and viable multimedia
solutions for e-learning and business training. Such solutions are
standards-based, take into account different learning styles and
incorporate interactive, participative and communicative approaches to
learning. They include use of social technologies, web-based
simulations and mobile learning games.
Alice joined the University in 1991, initially to set up and
run a Language Centre on Central Campus. Here she continued to build on
her strong track record in teaching, management, innovative design and
delivery of curriculum and in significant and sustained income
generation.
Recruited by Ultralab in1995 as Editor of the Apple European
Education website, she quickly instigated and led a variety of
initiatives for which she had obtained substantial funding. These
include innovative and successful projects on:
- curriculum
development – in collaboration with Richard Millwood, the design and
development of Ultra-language-lab for BT's AngliaCampus;
-
inclusion – Ultralab’s action research in the
EU-funded, pan-European project m-Learning (www.m-learning.org/);
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work-based, online learning – the design and
development of Ultra-learning-lab for the University’s Department of
Health Care Practice;
- e-assessment – online
materials and research for the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
ELSA examinations; research-based report for the Scottish
Qualifications Authority.
Alice currently leads Ultralab’s action research
in the pan-European project mG-BL (mobile Games-Based Learning), which
is funded by the EU under 6th Framework, Priority 2, IST (see
www.mg-bl.com/). She has responsibility for project resourcing and
budget management. Her leadership role includes conceptualising,
strategising and detailed planning as well as day-to-day management and
advising on the research-related and practical issues faced by a
multi-disciplinary and geographically-distributed project team. As
befits the leader of an action research project, her style is
collaborative and hands-on.
Alice is contributing to
Ultralab’s international reputation at the cutting edge of the new
field of m-learning, in demand as researcher, consultant, curriculum
developer and conference speaker, delivering presentations and keynotes
at national and international level. The photo shows Alice talking to a
film crew from Swedish Educational TV (Ur) at Ultralab, where they were
making a feature on our innovations in the m-learning field. She
subsequently keynoted in Stockholm at Ur's conference for teachers:
'Zappa, knappa, chatta' (zap, click, chat).
Her publications
cover a wide spectrum and include books, multi-media learning packages,
academic papers and research reports. A recent literature review on the
use of computer and video games for learning has attracted a readership
of over 250,000 since its publication in October 2004.
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