Grainne Conole

Grainne Conole
Forename	Grainne
Surname	Conole
Type	Staff
Country	United Kingdom
WPs	WP1 Management"WP" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 1., WP2 Cross-sector analysis and comparison"WP" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2., WP3 The role of Community in OER"WP" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3., WP5 Dissemination"WP" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5.
URL	http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/education/people/ili-staff/grainne
email	gcc7@le.ac.uk

Professor Gráinne Conole joined the Institute of Learning Innovation as Director on 1st September, 2011. Prior to this, she was Chair of E-Learning at the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, since April 2006.

Previously, Grainne was Professor of Educational Innovation in Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Southampton, and was Director of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, a centre of excellence on the development and use of information and communication technology in education.

Gráinne has research interests in the use, integration and evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies and e-learning and impact on organisational change. Gráinne has research, development and project management experience across the educational and technical domains; funding sources have included HEFCE, ESRC, EU and commercial sponsors.

Very recent projects include the EU-funded projects OPAL, Deisgn-Practice, and X-Delia, the JISC-funded learner experience project, the ESRC TLRP Technology-Enhanced Learning project, PI led by Eileen Scanlon and Mike Sharples, as well as an OU Learning Design Project.

Past projects include the JISC LXP Learner Experience Proect, the HEFCE-funded E-Learning Research Centre, the JISC/NSF funded DialogPlus digital libraries project and the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. Also see Gráinne's own website: http://e4innovation.com/.