He is the Education Specialist – E-learning at the Commonwealth of Learning where he manages e-learning activities focused on policy development, and capacity building in the use of appropriate learning technologies and provides advice to Commonwealth governments and educational institutions on e-learning and ICT policy and practices.Before joining COL, He spent seven years at the British Columbia Institute of Technology as Associate Dean and Dean of the Learning & Teaching Centre.From 1982 to 2005 he worked at the University of British Columbia in a variety of distance education and educational technology roles including Associate and Acting Director of the Distance Education & Technology department and the Director of the Centre for Managing & Planning E-Learning (MAPLE). MAPLE research projects focused on institutional planning and management issues, policy, and social and educational impacts of e-learning.
He has extensive international consulting experience related to online course development and the planning and management of e-learning. He has taught workshops on developing and delivering online instruction and the planning and management of e-learning in Mexico, Malaysia, Taiwan, Bhutan, Croatia and Canada and he has been a consultant on distance education projects in Mongolia, Indonesia and Bhutan.He is an adjunct Professor in the UBC Master of Educational Technology program.He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Learning for Development.From 2006 to 2012 was the Chief Editor of the Journal of Distance Education.He has a Ph.D. in Adult Education (1997), a Masters degree in Educational Psychology (1989) and a B.Ed. (1982) from the University of British Columbia. He also holds a Diploma of Technology in Broadcast Journalism (1977) from BCIT.
