TOOC course team
Greg Benfield (course leader)
Greg is from Melbourne, Australia, where he gained a wide experience of teaching in the secondary, TAFE (Technical and Further Education) and Higher Education sectors. He as been teaching online (and teaching about teaching online) since 1998.
Greg joined Oxford Brookes University in January 2001. His work focuses on supporting technology-enhanced learning and he is a tutor on the Postgraduate Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education.
As well as his work at Brookes he delivers national workshops on technology-enhanced learning and assessment and has been involved in a range of national JISC and Higher Education Academy e-learning projects. His research interests are:
- Learner Experiences of e-Learning
- Computer-mediated communication
- Communication and collaboration in technology-rich HE environments
- e-Learning course design
- Computer aided assessment
Email Greg Benfield
Tel: (0)1865 485774 or (0)1865 484274
Twitter @gdbenfied
Marion Waite (course tutor)
Marion is from a healthcare background with a 17 year career in the UK NHS as a nurse, midwife and health visitor prior to moving into a career in higher education.
Marion has pioneered the development of online distance learning programmes in the Faculty of Health & Life Sciences including the MSc Nursing Studies which bring together a global network of experienced nurse practitioners to collaborate using the latest teaching and learning technologies. She is also currently researching with colleagues in the Faculty of Technology, Design & Environment on developing mobile applications to support decision-making for people with diabetes.
Marion is seconded to OCSLD as a tutor on the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education and has been part of a team who have recently ran one of the UK's very first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS), #FSLT12. Marion also teaches on the online tutoring course for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Marion was awarded a Brookes Teaching Fellowship in 2012 in order to lead a project aimed at supporting lecturers and students to collaboratively write for publication.
Elizabeth Lovegrove (course tutor)
Liz is OCSLD's learning technologist, which means that she spends her time designing, developing, supporting and teaching our online courses. She also teaches in Oxford Brookes' International Centre for Publishing Studies, and is working on a PhD on girls' magazines.
Outside of work, she reads (mostly science fiction and crime/mystery/detective fiction), swims (in rivers for preference), knits (and dabbles in most other fibre/yarn/fabric crafts), and spends far too much time on the internet - you can find her on Twitter at @ejlovegrove.
Email: ejlovegrove@brookes.ac.uk
