New e-learning staff in the School of Nursing

We're very pleased to welcome three new members of staff who have joined the e-learning team in the School in recent months:

Rob Cutforth

Rob joined us as a Media Developer at the start of September 2005, with a brief to develop Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) for the CETL for RLOs of which the School is one of three partners (see news item 1/2/05). Rob has a strong background in Flash, object-oriented programming and web development, and has already developed the CETL website and is working on CETL RLOs for colleagues in the School and in the Graduate Entry Medical School at Derby, which is also involved in the CETL.

Richard Windle

Richard joined us at the start of January 2006 as the CETL's Academic Coordinator, with a wide-ranging brief including research, teaching, promotion and dissemination of the 'RLO word', and working with authors to develop RLO specifications. Richard is on a 5-year secondment from his post as Lecturer in Biological Sciences based in the School's Lincoln centre, and has long experience in e-learning and RLO content development.

Lucrezia Herman

Lucrezia also joined us at the start of January 2006 as a Media Developer working on a 2-year Eduserv project to support lifelong learning in Health Sciences and Practice. Her brief is to develop RLOs in Infection Control, and in Medicines & Prescribing, and to catalogue these with a learning object metadata (LOM) schema. Lucrezia has a strong background in information science and recently worked for the BIOME project in the Greenfield Library, and has been studying multimedia software development on a foundation degree course in Nottingham. She will work closely with Fred Riley and Rob Cutforth on the development of RLOs. For further information on the Eduserv project, see the SONET news item from August 2004 and the abstract of a seminar given at Eduserv by our own Heather Wharrad last April.