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Peter Bates
Peter Bates is senior partner of a small consultancy company pjb Associates where for more than 26 years he has been focussed on innovative approaches to learning through using new technologies, and developments related to the networked economy. In more detail innovative approaches to learning – through:
- e-learning
- m-learning (mobile Learning)
- t-learning (TV based interactive and personalised TV)
- personalisation and video-based solutions for e-commerce
This involves analysing, monitoring and evaluating developments across Europe and other parts of the world concerning managerial and technological issues related to current and future developments in networked learning. In 2003 he managed, under a contract from UKeU, the setting up of the e-Learning Research Centre.
Other work has involved a global study into developments relating to the use of interactive and broadband digital TV for increasing learning opportunities in the home, supported by the European Commission - see http://www.pjb.co.uk/t-learning.htm. In addition, he has been editor of a newsletter for MOBIlearn, a worldwide European-led R&D project exploring mobile technolo-gies in learning - see http://www.pjb.co.uk/m-learning.htm.
Peter has an MSc in Training taken through distance learning at the University of Leicester, and during 2004–05 took a second Master’s in Management in the Networked Economy (MiNE) run jointly by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore at Piacenza, Italy, and the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) of the University of California at Berkeley, USA.