I am (as 1st October 2009) Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Reading and I was recently awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy. I lead a group of researchers called OdinLab with interests in: digital identity, communities, ontologies, distributed systems, information and knowledge, intelligence, social networks, new and emerging technologies, particularly related to eLearning, competencies and virtual worlds.

Interested in many things ...

shirleyearley

baking, communities, competencies, cooking, digital identity, distributed systems, eLearning, information and knowledge, intelligence, learning, new and emerging technologies, ontologies, people, programming, social networks, virtual worlds

cake, challenges, coffee, Dr Who, freedom to do what I want

chauvinism, tea

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I really like my job. Some days it is frustrating, but mostly it is rewarding. I like the daily challenges: be it explaining new concepts to students, grappling with research problems, designing a new module, planning a new project or writing a paper.
I work as part of a number of great teams.
My aspirations are to be a good team player and an inspirational leader.

BSc, PhD