Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr John Phelps

Dr John Phelps is an established HE professional specialising in academic development and learning technology.  His interests include Assessment, Evaluation, and Facilitating Change in Practice. He has been instrumental in moving Goldsmiths forward in the areas of using Technology Enhanced Learning. John has been involved in a number of projects including the TLTP, FDTL programmes as well as projects funded by JISC. He is a trustee of ALT, a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2006.

Academic qualifications

PhD. University of Bristol (1992). A Study of Transport Properties in Charge Density Waves in Niobium Triselenide

MA in Higher Education. Coventry University (1999). The Development and Evaluation of Mathematics Learning Material produced as part of the DFID Funded TABEISA Material Development Programme

BSc (Hons) Physics. University of Exeter (1986).

Teaching

Technology Enhanced Learning, Evaluation and Change Management

Research interests

Evaluation of Technology Enhanced Learning

Grants & awards

• FDTL Phase 3 BALANCE, Loughborough University (£250,000)
• FDTL Phase 4 Writing PAD, Goldsmiths (£250,000)
• JISC DeL Round 1, 2 VMAP, Goldsmiths (£62,000), (£63,500)
• HEA E-learning Benchmarking Phase 2
• HEA Enhancement Academy 2009
• JISC 05/09 Student Lifecycle Relationship Management: GoSLURP, Goldsmiths (£50,000)

Personal Awards

• Institutional Learning and Teaching Prize 2003
• National Teaching Fellowship 2006

Professional activities

Membership of professional bodies

• Member of Association for Learning Technology
• Registered Practitioner with Higher Education Academy

Project Management

• Project Manager for VMAP Project in JISC Developing Elearning Tools Programme (September 2004- March 2005) and (March 2005 – April 2006)

Consultancy

• Employed as consultant by LTSN Engineering (January 2004)
• Consultant for TABIESA materials development Programme (July 1997- September 1999)

External roles

• Elected Trustee of ALT (September 2004), (May 2007)
• Chair of ALT Membership Services Committee (April 2006 ‑ March 2009)
• Institutional representative for Heads of e-Learning Forum
• Invited speaker to 3 Higher Education institutions to discuss open-source VLEs (2005)
• Member of ALT delegation visiting Netherlands (2003)
• Joint workshop leader for session of SURF Making Connections Conference (April 2003)
• Hosted visit by SURF to Goldsmiths April 2002, to disseminate use of e-learning
• Reviewer for HE Academy Conference 2005, 2006, 2007
• Referee abstracts for ALT-C 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Judge for E-tutor of Year Competition 2006
• Reviewed JISC grant applications 2008
• Programme Committee Member of ALT-C 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Papers presented

• Phelps JM. Evaluating the Structure of Computer Aided Learning Material (ALT-Conference, Oxford, September 1998)
• Phelps JM, Croft AC. Virtual Support, Real Learning (ALT-Conference, Bristol, September 1999)
• Phelps JM. Using Learning Technology to Enhance Architectural Education (BIAT Educational Conference, London, February 2000)
• Dalgleish HY, Goodman R, Phelps JM. Learn: Using web-based teaching materials at Loughborough University. (ALT-Conference, Manchester, September 2000)
• Crawford AR, Dawson BR, Elson R, Phelps JM. CAL Nuggets: Targeting the Learning (ALT-Conference, Manchester, September 2000)
• Phelps JM, Davis LE. Using C&IT to Promote Model Learning (ALT-Conference, Manchester, September 2000)
• Phelps JM, Nicholls K. Closing the Cultural Gap (ALT-Conference, Sunderland, September 2002)
• Phelps JM, Conreen M. Privacy in Public– encouraging anonymous participation in the lecture environment (ALT-Conference, Sheffield, September 2003)
• Phelps JM, Tuck C, Grussendorf S. Nurtured Developments in Learning Technology (ALT-Conference, Sheffield, September 2003)
• Phelps JM. Enabling Change to Embed e-learning (Online Educa, Berlin, December 2003)
• Phelps JM, Grussendorf S. Moodling to Support Learning (ALT-Conference, Exeter, September 2004)
• Phelps JM. Learning Technologists for the Present and Future (ALT-Conference, Exeter, September 2004)
• Phelps JM. Providing a visual tool for dyslexics to build an ePortfolio (EIFEL ePortfolio 2005, Cambridge, October 2005)
• Phelps JM, Tidmarsh A. Extending Video for Learning and Teaching (ALT-Conference, Manchester, September 2005)