Paul Lefrere

Dr Paul Lefrere is a Professor of eLearning at the University of Tampere, Finland (Hypermedia Lab; Vocational Learning and e-skills Centre).

Before that, he was Senior Lecturer at the UK Open University's Institute of Educational Technology. From 2003-2005, he was on leave of absence as Microsoft's Executive Director for eLearning, in which role he served on various European and national advisory groups concerned with professional learning and related topics, and also on Europe's e-learning Industry Group, eLIG. Until 2003 he was Policy Adviser at the Open University, where he was also Academic Director of a number of international multi-university projects concerned with e-skills and knowledge management

Since he returned to the OU he has been engaged in a number of development and consultancy activities in many countries of the world including the Middle East and Pakistan.

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