Project Team
Professor Oleg Liber, Project Manager
Oleg is Academic Leader for e-Learning at The Bolton Institute.
Previously he was the founding Director of Bangor University's Centre
for Learning Technology (CeLT). He also has established and has
oversight of the JISC Centre for Educational Technology
Interoperability Standards (CETIS), which represents and advises the UK
HE and FE sectors on international efforts to define interoperability
standards for e-Learning, and is seen as key to the future success of
global e-Learning. Oleg has worked as a teacher and manager in
education and training for almost thirty years. He has been involved in
learning technology developments since the early 1980s, managing the
design, creation and application of a number of eLearning systems
including most recently the Colloquia Learning Management System. He
has presented and published widely on e-learning, and has advised a
number of organisations on learning technology issues, including the
European Commission's Advanced Learning Environments Working Group. He
is an elected member of the Steering Committee for the EC's PROMETEUS
initiative (PROmoting Multimedia Education and Training in European
Society).
Phillip Beauvoir, Lead Developer
Phillip has worked in computing for 20 years, mainly as a developer,
but also as a trainer. He has wide expertise in C, C++, Java, and XML,
and has developed systems for a number of commercial and public
organisations. This has included co-writing a development emulation
environment for one of the first hand-held computers and developing a
student management system for a large national training and education
provider. He has been the technical lead for the development of
Colloquia and PackageIt and was a contributing developer in the
JISC-funded CO3 and CoMantle projects. He has been working within the
field of learning technology interoperability and Virtual Learning
Environments for the past 5 years and currently specialises in
XML-based IMS Specifications, peer-to-peer networking and Java stunt
programming.
Paul Sharples, System Developer
Paul has worked on a number of projects for Bolton Institute since he
graduated. He has experience of developing applications in C, C++ and
Visual Basic among others. More recently he had been working in the
field of web development, using server technologies (asp, php, perl) to
create database driven interactivity. This included online mentoring
and record systems for distance learning students and their tutors and
also various logging systems. For a time he was also involved in the
deployment and technical administration of a VLE for the institute
(WebCT). He also wrote various add-on software components to allow
interaction between the VLE and student record system (SITs). Paul
occasionally also runs part time courses on web development
technologies at the institute, but again is mainly a developer as
opposed to a trainer.
Colin Milligan, RELOAD Dissemination
Colin Milligan has been involved in the design, authoring and delivery
of online learning materials since 1994. Colin started work at MEDC, as
part of a team creating materials for use by the University of Paisley
in their distance learning initiative. In 1996 he moved to Heriot-Watt
University, to work with TALiSMAN where he specialised in creating and
delivering on-line courses in learning technology to HE staff across
Scotland. After TALiSMAN, Colin worked on various HE and European
funded projects investigating the evolving pedagogy of online learning.
These projects resulted in the production of two widely read and
respected JTAP reports on Virtual Learning Environments, joint
authoring of a course (Learning About Open Learning) for delivery to
400 staff across Eastern Europe, and the delivery of a 5-day workshop
to staff at the Universiti Teknologi Petronas. Colin has also worked
extensively in the field of simulations, on the INSIDE project and
subsequently with MultiVerse Solutions. Currently, Colin splits his
time between RELOAD, where he has a support and dissemination role,
SCROLLA (researching and supporting research into online learning) and
JeLSIM (carrying on his involvement with simulations).
