Lifelong Learning Conference 2008

Between 1975 and 2000 Dr Lockwood worked within the Open University (OU) Institute of Educational Technology. During this period he was an Educational Technologist working with OU Course teams and Chairing Teams. During the period he was also Head of the Teaching and Consultancy Centre, Head, Professional Development in Educational Technology programme (PDET) and Deputy Director.

In January 2000 Fred was appointed Head: Learning + Teaching Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and Professor of Learning and Teaching. Fred was part of the senior management team within Academic Division and responsible for the realisation of the MMU Learning and Teaching Strategy. In February 2006 Fred was appointed Emeritus Professor in Learning and Teaching.

His research interests are broad; they range from psychometric to illuminative studies as reflected in personal and institutional research. They span all phases of course development - from conception and planning and from production and presentation to evaluation.

Fred has been appointed Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Expert and Educator to over 20 international institutions of higher education. He has undertaken over 30 national and international consultancies. In 2006 he was a Visiting Scholar to the Auckland University of Technology and the University of the South Pacific. He undertook consultancies on behalf of the Open University of Malaysia, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Open University of the Philippines and University of Papua New Guinea.

In 2007 he was a Visiting Scholar to the University of Wisconsin, USA, and will be a Visiting Scholar at Monash University, Australia. In the last twenty years Fred has been invited to be keynote speaker at 26 national and international conferences as well being invited to conduct 19 pre or post conference workshops.

Fred is Series Editor of the Routledge Open and Flexible Learning Series. In 2007 he expects - the fiftieth book in the Series will have been published; the Series is the largest of its kind in the world. Fred has recently been appointed Series Editor of the new Commonwealth of Learning eResource Series. In the period July – December 2007 Fred was Interim President of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia. He provides professional advice in the field of open and distance learning to grant awarding bodies and conference organisers. He sits on the Editorial Boards of ten journals.

Professor Christine Bruce is Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT. She has extensive experience in research and consultancy around information literacy and information literacy education. Her wider research agenda focuses on higher education teaching and learning. She regularly provides keynote addresses and workshops on information literacy to conferences around the world.

Sylvia Edwards is presently Associate Professor and Assistant Dean Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT. In 2007 she won a CARRICK award for teaching excellence, and has several other teaching awards to her credit. Sylvia has extensive interests in teaching and learning and internet searching.

Dr. Mary M. Somerville serves as Associate Dean in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, a joint university-public library in San José, California, USA. With international colleagues, she has developed a participatory research-in-practice approach to advance life long learning with and for users of learning commons.