Dawn
Leeder DSR, BSc (Hons), CMALT
Reward & Development Manager, RLO-CETL
University of Cambridge
1st Floor , 16 Mill Lane,
Cambridge CB2 1SB
dcl25@cam.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 765363
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 765505
I founded Universities' Collaboration in eLearning (UCeL), in 2002. UCeL was a UK wide community of practice in Higher Education producing, sharing and evaluating high quality multimedia elearning resources (in the form of reusable learning objects or RLOs) to support health professional education. We broke a great deal of collaborative e-learning ground in UCeL, particularly in the areas of shareable content and practitioner-based workshops, and this formed a strong evidential foundation for our application to become a National Centre for Excellence.
Since the award of the Centre for Excellence by HEFCE in 2005, I've been Reward and Development Manager for the Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning in Reusable Learning Objects (RLO-CETL), a collaborative CETL led by London Metropolitan University and in partnership with the University of Nottingham, who were also UCeL partners. RLO-CETL's work is bold and wide-reaching incorporating both learning designs and tools development, evaluation and dissemination. But none of its outputs could be achieved without the communities of e-learning excellence it seeds, supports and sustains.
Hear the whole story in 45 minutes in a keynote I presented at the Glasgow Science Centre in January 2007 for the Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education " E-is for Excellence - what happens at RLO-CETL - and how we got here" Veotag video
I was a Trustee of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) from 2005-2008 and am currently a member of the Jorum steering group.
At Wolfson College I'm Members' Steward and Chair of the Catering Committee. Unremunerated (as the President said), except by complaint...
In my spare time I enjoy real ale and, after extensive research a group of us have set up what we believe to be the world's first real Ale Flavour Comparison website. PintPicker is Web 2.0, free and great fun. www.pintpicker.co.uk. I also write an occasional real ale blog at pintpicker.blog.co.uk
Selected publications:
Leeder, D. (2009) "From nowhere to GLO-ware: the evolution of a generative learning object" Paper presented at EDEN 2009, Gdansk, Poland word | pdf
Leeder, D. (2009) "Interactive e-Learning Development Workshops" Paper presented at IADIS e-learning 2009, Algarve, Portugal word | pdf
"Implementations, change management and evaluation: A case study of the centre for excellence in teaching and learning in reusable learning objects"
(Cook, J., Wharrad, H., Windle, R., Leeder, D., Boyle, T., Alton, R. & Morales, R. 2007) Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change Volume 3 Number 3 and Volume 4 Number 1 © 2007 Intellect Ltd
"An Agile method for developing learning objects" (Boyle, T., Windle, R., Leeder, D., Wharrad, H., Alton, R. & Cook, J. 2006) Proceedings of the 23rd annual Ascilite conference: Who’s learning? Whose technology? Sydney, December 2006
"A Case in the Design of Generative Learning Objects (GLOs): Applied Statistical Methods GLOs" (Morales, Leeder, Boyle, 2004)
Presented at EdMedia 2005, World Conference on Educational Mulitmedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Montreal, June 27 - July 2, 2005 word | pdf
"Invention is the daughter of necessity: generative learning objects in the making" (Leeder, Chase, Morales, 2004)
Online Educa Berlin 2004 10th International Conference on Technology Supported Teaching and Learning Book of Abstracts pp. 153 – 157 ISBN:3-9808909-5-3 ICWE GmbH 2004 word | pdf
"To boldly GLO - towards the next generation of Learning Objects" (Boyle, Leeder, Chase, 2004) word | pdf
Presented as Panel at eLearn 2004, Washington, 1-5 November 2004
"Universities’ Collaboration in eLearning (UCeL):post-Fordism in action" (Leeder & Morales, 2004)
Presented at ED-MEDIA 2004, June 21-26 2004, Lugano, Switzerland word | pdf
"Universities’ Collaboration in eLearning (UCeL): a virtual community of practice in health professional education" (Leeder, McLachlan, Rodrigues, Stephens, Wharrad, McElduff, 2004)
IADIS Web-based communities 2004 pp. 386 – 393 Edited by: Kommers, P., Isaias, P. & Nunes, M B. ISBN:972-98947-4-4 IADIS Press 2004 word | pdf
Leeder, Dawn; Davies, Tom & Wharrad, Heather (August 2002) Beyond Institutional Boundaries: reusable learning objects for multi-professional education 3rd Annual Research Conference of the School of Nursing & Midwifery Studies, University of Dublin Trinity College word | pdf
Leeder, Dawn & Davies, Tom (2002) Flexible learning objects for teaching, learning and sharing: implementing a multi-institutional collaboration 4th ICNEE 02 ed. F. Fluckiger, C. Jutz, P. Schulz, L. Cantoni pp. 1.3/23 - 26 ISBN: 3-0345-0031-9 word
Leeder, Dawn (2002) Building a web-based course for Cambridge medics: deconstruction, reconstruction, integration. The Changing Universities - The Role of Technology ed. Jan von Knop, Peter Schirmbacher and Viljan Mahnic pp. 420 - 425 ISBN: 3-88579-339-3 pdf
Leeder, Dawn & Davies, Tom (May 2001) Delivering a web-based course to Cambridge medics: evaluation, issues and outcomes. TET2001, Prague, Charles University pdf
Leeder, Dawn. (2000) From linear lecture to interactive multimedia module: a developer's perspective. Education Media International Vol 37 No 4 pp.219-224 ISSN: 0952-3987 print/ 1469-5790 online pdf
Membership:
Wolfson College, Cambridge http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/
Cambridge Philosophical Society http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cps/
The Performing Right Society http://www.prs.co.uk
Association for Learning Technology http://www.alt.ac.uk
British Cartographic
Society http://www.cartography.org.uk/
British Sundial Society http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/
University and College Union http://www.ucu.org.uk
Last update: Mon, 19 October, 2009 16:43