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Dr. Isobel Falconer
Isobel is also an Associate Lecturer with the Open University in Scotland on course AT308: Cities and Technology. She is Vice Chair Representation of the Open University’s Associate Lecturer Committee and sits on a number of University Committees, including Senate. In April 2006 she received two Open University teaching awards for exploring and supporting innovative ways of meeting a diversity of student needs; and her contribution to the SOS team which provides professional development and seeds communities of practice for tutors focussed around using distance technologies in learning and teaching. Before moving in to learning technology, Isobel was a historian of science with special interests in nineteenth and twentieth century physics. She has published extensively on J.J. Thomson and the discovery of the electron, building on her earlier work as curator of the museum at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. She is a Research Associate of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and was for five years editor of the British Society for the History of Science’s Education Newsletter. Isobel lives in Fife with Ken, Ben and Jennifer. She was a parent member of Madras College School Board for four years and set up the school board website She ran a highly successful science club at Lawhead Primary School which won the International Lunch Box Derby in Washington in 1999 and were runners up in New York in 2000, based on her experience working at a pioneering hands on science centre, The Exploratory, in Bristol. PublicationsLearning Technology2008 Littlejohn, A., I. Falconer & L. McGill (2008) ‘Characterising effective eLearning resources, Computers & Education (2006), doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2006.08.004 2008 Normand, C., Littlejohn, A & Falconer, I. (2008) ‘A model for flexible programme delivery’, Innovation in Education and Teaching International 2008 Falconer, I, and Littlejohn, "Representing models of practice” (2008), (L. Lockyer, S. Bennet, S. Agostinho, and B. Harper (eds) Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects, Idea Group, ISBN-13: 978-1599048611 2008 Falconer, I., and Littlejohn, A. (2007) ‘Designing for blended learning, sharing and reuse’, Journal of Further and Higher Education, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2007 , pages 41 - 52 2007 Falconer, I ‘Designing for learning - the search for an appropriate metaphor’ (in preparation) 2007 Falconer, I & Margaryan, A, ‘Sustainable e-Learning: the Caledonian Academy contribution', Scottish Online Journal of E-Learning, 1 (1) pp15-18 available at http://www.sojel.co.uk/SOJEL/Sojel%20Papers/Sojel%20June%202007%20issue.pdf 2007 Falconer, I, H. Beetham, R. Oliver, L. Lockyer, C. Pegler & A. Littlejohn, ‘Representing learning designs for sharing and reuse’, submitted to special issue of J-CAL on Supporting Sustainable e-Learning 2007 Falconer, I. ‘Mediating between practitioner and developer communities - the LADiE experience’, ALT-J, 15 (2), 155-170 2007 Falconer, I, and Littlejohn, A. “Representing models of practice”, Chapter for L. Lockyer, S. Bennet, S. Agostinho, and B. Harper (eds) Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects, to be published by Idea Group. 2007 Falconer, I, H. Beetham, R. Oliver, L. Lockyer & A. Littlejohn, Mod4L Final Report: Representing Learning Designs. Available from http://mod4l.com/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=7 2007 Normand, C., A. Littlejohn & I. Falconer. ‘A model for flexible programme delivery’ Innovations in Education and Teaching International (in press) 2007 Falconer, I., and Littlejohn, A. ‘Designing for blended learning, sharing and reuse’, Journal of Further and Higher Education, 31 (1) 41-52 2006 Littlejohn, A., I. Falconer & L. McGill, ‘Characterising effective e-learning resources’ Computers and Education (in press), available online 5 Oct 2006 http://www.sciencedirect.com 2006 Conole, G., M. Oliver, I. Falconer, A. Littlejohn, & J. Hervey. ‘Designing for learning’ in G. Conole and M. Oliver (eds) (2006) Contemporary perspectives in e-learning research: themes, methods and impact on practice. The Open and Flexible Learning Series. Routledge, London, Chapter 7, pp 101-120 2006 Falconer, I & A. Littlejohn ‘Mod4L Report: Case Studies, Exemplars and Learning Designs’ Report of the JISC Mod4L project. http://mod4l.com/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=2 2006 Jeffery, A., I. Falconer, et. al. ‘LADIE project final report’ http://athena.cs.man.ac.uk/apache2-default/r/LADIE/www.elframework.org/refmodels/ladie 2006 Falconer, I., A. Littlejohn, G. Conole, & A. Jeffery. ‘Mediating between services and learning activities - the user perspective.’ Proceedings of Networked Learning Conference, Lancaster. April 2006. 2006 Falconer, I., G. Conole, A. Littlejohn, & A. Jefferey ‘Learning Activity Reference Model - Pedagogy guide’. LADIE project output. JISC. http://athena.cs.man.ac.uk/apache2-default/r/LADIE/www.elframework.org/refmodels/ladie/guides/ [accessed 3/11/08] 2006 Falconer, I. ‘LADIE Gap Analysis’. LADIE project output. JISC. http://athena.cs.man.ac.uk/apache2-default/r/LADIE/www.elframework.org/refmodels/ladie/guides/ [accessed 3/11/08] 2005 Conole, G., A. Littlejohn, I. Falconer, & A. Jeffery. ‘Pedagogical review of learning activities and use cases’. JISC. http://athena.cs.man.ac.uk/apache2-default/r/LADIE/www.elframework.org/refmodels/ladie/outputs/index.html [accessed 3/11/08] Open University Internal Educational Reports(all sole author) 2006 Report on Remote Mentoring Project to evaluate potential of synchronous conferencing for tutor and student communication for Open University in Scotland 2005 Report on Pathways, Frameworks and Awards for Open University Curriculum Development Group 2005 Report on a Scottish Portfolio of courses for Open University Curriculum Development Group 2004 Tutor Access to OU Online Services, for Open University in Scotland 2002 Research/Independent Study in Subject Benchmarks for Open University Faculty of Arts History of Science PublicationsBook:Davis, E.A and Falconer, I.J (1997) J J Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron , London: Taylor and Francis, xxvii+243 pp. Book chapter:2008: Falconer, Isobel with James, Frank A.J.L. “Fame and Faraday”, in E. Moohan (ed) AA100: The Arts Past and Present, Book 1: Reputations, Milton Keynes: The Open University, pp85-114 Refereed Papers and Articles:(all sole author unless otherwise stated) 2008 (with F.Hasselmann, A. Csaplovics, & E. Hersperger) “Technological driving forces of LUCC: conceptualization, quantification, and the example of urban power supply networks”, submitted to Land Use Policy 2006 ‘A point in common: the electron in chemistry and physics’ accepted to appear in Atti del XI Convegno Nazionale di Storia e Fondamenti della Chimica 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: 9 new biographies, 23 major revisions. Listed (as one of only 144 contributers), as a Research Associate of the DNB 2004 'Charles Augustin Coulomb and the fundamental law of electrostatics', Metrologia, 41, 107-114 2004 'Thomson, J J', 'Larmor, J', 'Schuster, A', 'Callendar, H L', 'Hicks, W M', 'Chrystal, G' in D B Wilson (ed) Thoemmes Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Scientists 2003 'Thomson, J J', 'Electron', and 'Mass Spectrograph', in J L Heilbron (ed) Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science 2002 'Thomson, J J', and 'Electron, Discovery of', in J. Rigden (ed) Macmillan Encyclopedia of Particle Physics 2001 'Corpuscles to Electrons' in J Buchwald and A Warwick (eds) Histories of the Electron, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, pp77-100 2000 'Thomson, J J' in A Hessenbruch (ed) Reader's Guide to the History of Science, London: Fitzroy Dearborn 1999 'A Purely Local Experiment - Poynting and the Mean Density of the Earth', Measurement Science and Technology, 10, 525-30 1999 'Henry Cavendish: the Man and the Measurement' Measurement Science and Technology, 10, 470-477 1997 'J J Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron' Physics Education, 32, 226-231 1996 'Corpuscles to Electrons' in D. Hoffman et. al. (eds) The Emergence of Modern Physics, University of Pavia, pp217-232 1996 'Thomson, Joseph John', in J. Rigden (ed) Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics, New York: Macmillan, vol 4, pp1605-1607 1989 'J J Thomson and 'Cavendish' Physics', in Frank A J L James (ed) The Development of the Laboratory, London: Macmillan, pp104-117 1988 'J J Thomson's work on positive rays, 1906-1914', Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 18, 265-310 1987 'Corpuscles, Electrons and Cathode Rays: J J Thomson and the 'Discovery of the Electron'', British Journal for the History of Science, 20, 241-286 Biographies commissioned for Oxford Dictionary of National Biographymajor new biographies short new biographies major revisions revisions to 30 other 20th century scientists Invited Talks and SeminarsUsually one or two a year, on topics including: Interactions between physics and chemistry in 19th and 20th centuries (Turin); J J Thomson and "Cavendish" physics (Royal Institution & Cambridge); Thomson and Rutherford's collaboration on x-ray ionisation (Toronto); J H Poynting and Unitarianism (Oxford); Henry Cavendish, the man and the measurement (London); The Cavendish and the role of the technician (Cambridge). Numerous talks to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the electron (1997) (all invited) including: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Liege, Belgium; Gottingen, Germany; British Association; Royal Society, London. Other forms of output2008 DVD ‘Fame and Faraday’ to accompany book chapter for Open University Arts Foundation course |
Dr. Isobel Falconer is a Senior Lecturer in Learning Technology, with particular interests in learning design, and representations. She is currently Project Manager and Co-Investigator on the JISC-funded