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''Terence Karran'' was the University of Lincoln’s director of Teaching and Learning Research, where he was involved with developing the university’s Virtual Campus, which was first created with an endowment from BP plc in 1992. He was also the course director of the university-wide Master’s by Learning Contract postgraduate programme.  
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Professor Terence Karran is Professor in Higher Education at the University of Lincoln. He is a Senior Academic in the Centre for Educational Research and Development, where he teaches on the EdD programme and supervises EdD and PhD students. He also has overall responsibility for the University’s Erasmus activities. After graduating he worked briefly at the UK headquarters of Kodak, the photographic company. Returning to academia, he worked as Research Assistant at Lancaster University, before going to Manchester to study for a PhD. After completing the PhD in three years, he worked as a Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the universities of Dundee and Strathclyde before taking up a lecturing post at Leeds Metropolitan University.  


Since 2001 he has been a director of the [[Open Learning Foundation]], and from 2000–04 he was chair of the European Studies Centres Network of the [[European Association of Distance Teaching Universities]].
As a result of work on a feasibility study for the Finnish Virtual University, Oulu University appointed him a Docent Professor in Educational Technology in 2006.  
In 1999 he was a visiting professor in educational technology at the University of Oulu, where he wrote a definitive paper on the development of the [[Finnish Virtual University]]; he is now a docent of the university, and has acted as an external consultant for the Finnish Ministry of Education on the FVU project.


His current research interests include organisation models for virtual universities, and EU credit and assessment issues within borderless education, in respect of which he is leading a European consortium using EU funding to create a jointly awarded online MBA. He has considerable experience of managing research projects, both individu-ally and collaboratively, for a diverse range of public- and private-sector funding bod-ies at the regional, national and European level including Wakefield, Leeds, and Hull City Councils, the British Council, BP Amoco plc, the Home Office, HEFCE (TLTP and Widening-participation Initiatives), European Social Fund, ERDF and Socrates.
From 2005-07, he worked as a Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico, where he was Director of the UAG’s Distance Learning Centre (DLC) and also the Mexican National Co-Ordinator of the World Bank Institute’s Global Development Learning Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (GDLN LAC).


He spent two years recently on secondment to the [[Autonomous University of Guadalajara]] in [[Mexico]].
He was a consultant to Sero for POERUP, in particular for the studies on Mexico.


== Relevant documents by Terence Karran ==
he is particularly known for research into Academic Freedom in the modern university - http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/research/researchshowcase/academicfreedom/
# [[Image:Karran eMexico UNESCO2005.pdf]]: E-MEXICO - BUILDING ON SUCCESS, FOR SUCCESS, by TERENCE KARRAN (member of our International Advisory Committee) (PDF, 4 pages, in English)
# [[Image:Karran_TandPohjonen_J2000a.pdf]]: Responding to the Vision of the Information Society: First Steps Towards a National Virtual University. A Policy Discussion Paper by Terence Karran and Juha Pohjonen, Finland, 2005 (PDF, 124 pages, English) ISBN 951-42-5587-9
 
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Latest revision as of 21:44, 1 February 2023

Terence Karran
Forename Terence
Surname Karran
Type Consultant
Country
WPs 2, 4
URL http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/terencek
email terencek@lincoln.ac.uk


Professor Terence Karran is Professor in Higher Education at the University of Lincoln. He is a Senior Academic in the Centre for Educational Research and Development, where he teaches on the EdD programme and supervises EdD and PhD students. He also has overall responsibility for the University’s Erasmus activities. After graduating he worked briefly at the UK headquarters of Kodak, the photographic company. Returning to academia, he worked as Research Assistant at Lancaster University, before going to Manchester to study for a PhD. After completing the PhD in three years, he worked as a Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the universities of Dundee and Strathclyde before taking up a lecturing post at Leeds Metropolitan University.

As a result of work on a feasibility study for the Finnish Virtual University, Oulu University appointed him a Docent Professor in Educational Technology in 2006.

From 2005-07, he worked as a Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico, where he was Director of the UAG’s Distance Learning Centre (DLC) and also the Mexican National Co-Ordinator of the World Bank Institute’s Global Development Learning Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (GDLN LAC).

He was a consultant to Sero for POERUP, in particular for the studies on Mexico.

he is particularly known for research into Academic Freedom in the modern university - http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/research/researchshowcase/academicfreedom/

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