Dear colleagues, this week we welcome Professor Rhona Sharpe @rjsharpe and Leo Havemann @leohavemann from ELESIG to talk about Learners’ experiences of
e-Learning. Join us on Wednesday 8-9pm BST.

ELESIG is the Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group and its mission is to build capacity for undertaking evaluations and investigations of learners’ experiences. ELESIG organise national symposia as well as local group events, and have a community site at elesig.ning.com where members can join local and topic-based groups.

Professor Rhona Sharpe, Chair of ELESIG, Head of Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, @rjsharpe

Rhona has been working as an educational developer in higher education for 20 years. Rhona’s interests are around developing online courses and uses of technology and encouraging pedagogic research. From 2005-2010 she directed a number of learner experience projects which have received great interest and national recognition across both the further and higher education sector, in pioneering innovative research methods and techniques for eliciting students’ expectations and experiences of using technology in their learning. The culmination of these projects was the creation of ELESIG.

Leo Havemann, Co-convenor of the ELESIG London local group, Learning Technologist at Birkbeck, University of London, @leohavemann

Leo has worked in as an HE tutor and FE librarian prior to his current role as a learning technologist. His interests include development of skills and literacies, blended learning, and open education. As well as co-convening the ELESIG London group, Leo is a co-ordinator of the ALT M25 Learning Technology Group.

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