Educational Technology Manager, Institute of Educational Technology
About
Will Woods is Senior Learning and Teaching Technologies Manager in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University (UK). He has an honours degree in Computer Science and further professional qualifications including MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) and is a Chartered IT Provider (British Computer Society accredited). He is Technical Director on a number of e-learning projects including the (JISC funded) Learning Design project. Will has worked in the Open University for seventeen years. His background is researching technologies in the support of education and as part of EMERG (Electronic Media in Education Research Group) he developed a number of online course prototypes. Will is an active participant on a number of enterprise OU initiatives including OUVLE (Virtual Learning Environment) and ECMS (Electronic Content Management System) projects and most recently the OU adoption of cloud computing and has worked in an advisory capacity with external partners in developing new courses for the university.
In 1998 Will worked as a senior consultant to Sheffield Hallam University responsible for the development and roll-out of their Virtual Campus project. His current role is largely in the exploration, development and management of systems to support and enable learning and teaching. Will has published and presented papers on knowledge systems, Learning Design and online course presentation. For more information visit his website at http://iet.open.ac.uk/people/w.i.s.woods
