Dr. Colin Latchem

Colin Latchem has over thirty years' experience of leading and managing educational technology and educational change. In the 1970s, he was a pioneer in the UK in educational television and learning resources and he established the Learning Resources Unit at Stanmillis College of Education (now part of Queen's University) Belfast, and was a consultant to the UK National Council of Educational Technology.

In Australia, where he now lives and works, he held a professorial position as the Head of the Teaching Learning Group at Curtin University of Technology, Perth Western Australia until 1998. In this role, he was responsible for academic staff development, open and distance education and educational technology. He also served on the Academic Programs Board of the Open Learning Australia consortium, was national president of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) and undertook major consultancies into, eg., the University of the South Pacific; satellite USPNet, the Tanami Network, a videoconferencing network for aboriginal communities in the Australian outback, and the Western Australian Telecentre Network. He has written books on multimedia, staff development for open learning, leadership for 21st century learning, telecentres and teacher education through open and distance education. The book on leadership received the 2002 Charles Wedemyer Award for the best book of the year on distance education in the US.

Colin is now a consultant and writer. He works mainly in Australia and the Asia-Pacific although he has also spent a year working in the Caribbean on a Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation consultancy.

Colin has been tutoring this course since 1998 and he enjoys working with students online, exchanging ideas and experiences relating to educational technology and distance education/ distributed learning. His email address is: clatchem@iinet.net.au.

 

CDE - Last Updated by MK December 03, 2010