Role
As the Digital Curriculum Manager in the Institute of Health and Allied Professions, within the School of Social Sciences. I manage the responsibility of providing a digital curriculum service that meets the pedagogical support needs of our healthcare courses, students and colleagues. Leading the design, development, implementation, evaluation and continuous improvement of pedagogically-informed digital learning experiences, and technical application of curriculum-specific learning technologies. Key activities include:
- Operational management of the Digital Curriculum Team, providing strategic, digital, academic and technical leadership to Digital Curriculum Support and Developers
- Delivering my institute-specific digital learning strategy to inform the direction of digital curriculum design, working with the Head of Department and Principal Lecturers
- Managing the development, implementation and support of curriculum-specific learning technologies such as our Igloo Vision immersive virtual reality wall suites and associated contracts and peripherals, and our institute-specific PebblePad Region
- Analysing and embedding digital literacies and skills into the curriculum and developing our students and colleagues
- Providing specialist pedagogical, technological and innovative expertise to inform decision-making on digital curriculum design and delivery, including generating use/business cases and purchasing
- Undertaking scholarly activity through research and formally evaluating our digital curriculum projects and initiatives
- Leading the design of quality assured digital materials and solutions for adaption and use relevant to healthcare higher education
- Coordinating, designing and delivering identified digital learning design and skills workshops to contribute to staff development
- Overseeing our institute-specific digital curriculum/PebblePad technical first line support service desk
Career overview
Commencing my learning technology career in further education, in the context of teacher education and learning support. I bring my extensive learning technologist experience to provide digital, academic and strategic leadership and operational management, in the pedagogical and technical design and application of learning technologies, to create and support effective and innovative digital learning experiences in healthcare higher education. I hold a Technology Enhanced Learning MSc, Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Authority (SFHEA) and Senior Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (SCMALT). I am qualified in teaching, assessing, lead internal verification, management and leadership and information technology and computing. I am the winner of the ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award 2016 (individual category), and I am the author of 'Digital Learning, Teaching and Assessment for HE and FE Practitioners' (2022).
Research areas
Digital pedagogy, immersive learning and virtual reality, online asynchronous learning and digital literacies.
External activity
Founder and Co-Chair of the Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT®) Virtual Reality and Immersive Learning practice and scholarship group.
Publications
See Google Scholar.
Press expertise
- Digital, academic and strategic leadership and operational management
- Learning technologies including Virtual Learning Environments and other tools in the digital ecosystem, immersive learning suites and ePortfolios
- Curriculum design and development
- Learning design; digital, online and blended course, learning activity and assessment design
- Digital literacies, skills and capabilities development