Terence Karran

Dr Terence Karran is a Senior Academic in the Centre for Educational Research and Development, at the University of Lincoln. Previously he was Director of Teaching and Learning Research, and 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.

From 2001-5, he was a member of the Board of Directors 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. In 1999 he was a Visiting Professor in Educational Technology at the University of Oulu, where he co-authored a definitive paper on the development of the Finnish Virtual University; he is now a Docent of the University of Oulu, and has acted as an external consultant for the Finnish Ministry of Education on the FVU project. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Visiting Professor in Educational Technology at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, México’s oldest and largest private university, and Director of the University's GDLN Distance Learning Centre and of the Mexican National Co-Ordination Centre for the World Bank Institute’s Global Development Learning Network for Latin America and the Caribbean.

His current research interests include organisational models for virtual universities, academic freedom, the European Credit Transfer System and grading and assessment in higher education. He has considerable experience of managing research projects, both individually and collaboratively, for a diverse range of public- and private-sector funding bodies at the regional, national, European and international level including Wakefield, Leeds, and Hull City Councils, the British Council, BP Amoco plc, the Home Office, HEFCE (TLTP and Widening-participation Initiatives), the European Social Fund, the ERDF and the Socrates Programmes, and the World Bank Institute in Washington.

Relevant documents by Terence Karran

1. E-MEXICO - BUILDING ON SUCCESS, FOR SUCCESS (PDF), by TERENCE KARRAN (member of our International Advisory Committee) (4 pages, in English)
2. Responding to the Vision of the Information Society: First Steps Towards a National Virtual University. A Policy Discussion Paper (PDF) by Terence Karran and Juha Pohjonen, Finland, 2005 (124 pages, English) ISBN 951-42-5587-9
3. The "Glossary of Terms Relating to Educational Development and Educational Technology" (PDF), prepared by Terence Karran for the World Bank Institute's Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) for Latin America and the Caribbean (95 pages, English with Spanish translation of introduction). Included as a resource although it needs updating.

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