Linda Creanor

Linda Creanor is Development Director (Professional Practice) in the Caledonian Academy. She has been involved in a range of national and European technology ehanced learning projects as a researcher, designer, evaluator and consultant, and has presented and published widely. Internally she currently leads the University's Blended Learning initiative and facilitates the Caledonian Scholars and Associates initiative which is based on a distributive leadership model of professional development. Externally, research projects have included the LEX study which explored the learner perspective on e-learning across the post-16 sectors in the UK, and two major European projects, Dialog On and ETUDE, which explored and implemented networked learning in a social action context. Linda was also an advisor to REAP, a Scottish Funding Council transformational project focusing on Re-Engineering Assessment Practices, led by Strathclyde in collaboration with Glasgow Caledonian and Glasgow universities. She is a Trustee of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), having previously served as Vice-Chair, Chair and President. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Selected Publications and Presentations (from 2000)

Macdonald, J. & Creanor, L. (forthcoming) Learning with Online and Mobile Technologies: a Student Guide, Gower. http://www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9780566089305

Creanor L. & Trinder, K (forthcoming). Managing Study and Life with Technology, in R. Sharpe, H. Beetham & S. De Freitas (eds) Rethinking learning for a digital age: how learners are shaping their own experiences. Routledge, New York

Walker S. and Creanor L. (2009), The STIN in the Tale: a socio-technical interaction perspective on networked learning, Journal for Educational Technology and Society, 12, (4), 305-316. http://www.ifets.info/journals/12_4/26.pdf

Gunn, C., Creanor, L., Keppell, M. & Hall, R. (2009). Who is responsible for e-learning sustainability? In Blackey, H., Jefferies, A., Masterman, L. & Whalley, B. (Eds) “In Dreams begins responsibility” – choice, evidence and change, proceedings of ALT-C, 8-10 September, University of Manchester, UK, 149.

Creanor, L. (2009) Invited Presentation: Whose space is it anyway? Researching learner expectations of e-learning, at Supporting the i-Generation, University of Ulster, e-Learning Conference, 22 January.

Creanor L., Trinder K., Gowan, D., Howells C. (2008), Life, Learning and Technology: views from the learners, Journal for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Issue 2, 26-41. Available online at http://www.glos.ac.uk/tli/lets/journals/lathe/issue2/index.cfm

Creanor, L. (2008) Meeting Student Expectations: are they already in control? In Comrie, A. Mayes, N., Mayes T. & Smyth K. (Eds), Learners in the Co-Creation of Knowledge: proceedings of the LICK symposium, 30 October, Edinburgh, 58-66. http://www2.napier.ac.uk/transform/LICK_proceedings/Linda_Creanor.pdf

Creanor L. (2008) Keynote: A learner- centred approach to researching and analysing user perspectives, EMERGE online conference, 24th June

Creanor L. (2008) Keynote: Students’ perceptions of e-Learning: Findings from the LEX Project. Effective Learning Advisors’ Forum, Glasgow Caledonian University, 13 June

Creanor L. (2008) Invited Presentation: Students’ perceptions of e-Learning: approach and findings from the LEX project, Learning Society Lab Research Group, University of Southampton, 11 June

Gunn, C., Conole, G., Creanor, L. & Keppell, M. (2008) Are early adopters and institutional e-learning initiatives on opposite sides of a digital divide? Symposium presented at ALT-C, Re-Thinking the Digital Divide, 9-11 September, Leeds

Siddiqui N. & Creanor L. (2008) Self-Regulated Learning through Reflection, Improving University Teaching Conference: Transforming Higher Education Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century, 29-31 July

Creanor L. (2008) Keynote: Learner Voices, at Learning Futures: the campus and beyond, 8-9 January, University of Leicester

Creanor L. (2007) Keynote: My Space, Their Space, Your Space: How well do we know our learners? at Design for Learning Conference, 4 July, University of Greenwich

Creanor L. (2007), Invited Presentation: New Technology from the Learner and Teacher Perspectives, JISC Next Generation Environments conference, Birmingham, 27 April

Creanor L., Trinder K., Gowan, D.,. & Howells C. (2006) The Learner Experience of E-Learning, Final Report of the LEX project, available online at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_pedagogy/elp_learneroutcomes.aspx

Creanor, L., Trinder, K., Gowan, G., Howells, C (2006) Who’s learning and how? Researching the Learner Experience, ASCILITE conference proceedings, 3-6 December. Sydney, Australia

Trinder, K., Creanor, L., Gowan, D. & Howells, C. (2006) "...an underworld of texting and messaging..." Exploring some emergent findings from the LEX study, Workshop presented at HandheldLearning 2006, QE11, London. Available online at: http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/hl2006/present/kathytrinder.pdf

Trinder K., Creanor, L., Gowan, D., Howells C., (2006), Letting the Learners tell their story, Proceedings of ALT-C, ‘The Next Generation’ Sep 5- 6, Edinburgh, pp12-13

Creanor, L., Trinder K., Gowan, D., Howells C., (2006), Listening to Learners, Workshop presented at the JISC Learner Driver Conference, 31st May, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.

Creanor, L., Trinder, K., Gowan, G., Howells, C (2006), The Learner's Voice: a Focus on the e-learner Experience, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Networked Learning 2006, ISBN 1-86220-182-X Lancaster University, Lancaster, http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/past/nlc2006/abstracts/creanor.htm

Walker, S. & Creanor, L. (2006), Networked Learning and Social Action: a social informatics perspective, in S. Banks, V. Hodgson, C.Jones, B. Kemp, D. McConnell and C. Smith (Eds), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Networked Learning, 10-12 April 2006 Lancaster: Lancaster University

Walker S. & Creanor L. (2005), Crossing Complex Boundaries: transnational online education in European trade unions, Journal for Computer Assisted Learning. 21, 5, 343-354.

Creanor L. & Walker S. (2005), Learning Architectures and Negotiation of Meaning in European Trade Unions, ALT-J, 13, 2, 109 - 123.

Creanor L. & Walker S. (2005) Trade Union Use of ICT in Support of Learning, Report commissioned by the TUC, available online at http://www.learningservices.org.uk/national/learning-4014-f0.cfm

Creanor L. (2004), Keynote: Flexible Learning and the Great Surrender Issue, Bournemouth University’s Learning & Teaching conference ‘Flexible Learning: how far have we come?’, 5-6th July.

Creanor, L. & Walker S. (2004), Learning architectures and negotiation of meaning in European Trade Unions, Proceedings of ALT-C, ‘Blue Skies and Pragmatism: learning technologies for the next decade.’ Sep 13-16, Exeter. This paper won an Outstanding Research Paper Award

Walker & Creanor (2004), Crossing Complex Boundaries: Transnational Trade Union Education, in Banks S. Goodyear P., Hodgson V., Jones C., Lally V., McConnell D., Steeples C. (eds) Proceedings of Networked Learning Conference, Lancaster, 5-7 April, pp683-690.

Armitage A., Bryson M., Creanor L., Higgison, C., Jenkins M., Ringan N., Newland B., Prescott D., Yip H. (2004), Supporting Learning Technology: Relationships with Research and Theory, in Banks S. Goodyear P., Hodgson V., Jones C., Lally V., McConnell D., Steeples C. (eds) Proceedings of Networked Learning Conference, Lancaster, 5-7 April, pp28-35.

Creanor L. (2003), Keynote: Future developments in computer-mediated distance learning & networking, at the final conference of the Dialog On EU project, Vienna, 7-9 November.

Creanor L. (2003) Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Learning Communities in the European Workplace, in proceedings of Learning Outside the Academy, Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, GCU, 27-29 June, 66-71

Creanor L. (2002) A Tale of Two Courses: a comparative study of tutoring online, Open Learning Vol 17, 1, 57-68, Taylor & Francis, London.

Creanor L. (2002), Dialog On: Online learning and social dialogue in the European Trade Union sector, in Williamson, Gunn, Young & Clear (eds) proceedings of ASCILITE , 8-11 Dec, Auckland New Zealand, 2, 795-799.

Walker S, Creanor L (2001) Potenzialita e problemi del progetto ETUDE, Formazione Domani 39/40, pp67-72, Instituto Addestramento Lavoratori, Rome.

Creanor, L., & Walker, S. (2000) European Trade Union Distance Education, Educational Media International, 37 (4), pp. 263-9.

Creanor L., Littlejohn A., (2000), Preparing for Online Learning and Teaching: a cross institutional approach to staff development in internet communication, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, vol16, no 3, pp271-279, Blackwell.

Creanor L., Littlejohn A. (2000) Collaboration and Communication: staff development for teaching and learning online, International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE2000, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 21-24.

Walker S. and Creanor L. (2000), European Trade Union Distance Education: potential and problems, Proceedings of Networked Learning, 17th-19th April, Lancaster, pp341-353.

Creanor L., Walker S., (2000), ETUDE: European Trade Union Distance Education, Proceedings of Euro-Education (available on CD-ROM), 8-10 Feb, Aalborg, Denmark.

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