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Matic Media Ltd
Matic Media Ltd was Partner 9 of the Re.ViCa project, based in UK. Its short name is Matic Media.
Its web site is http://www.matic-media.co.uk
Matic Media Ltd
Matic Media Ltd is an e-learning consultancy firm operating from Sheffield in the United Kingdom, but with an international reach and perspective. Recent clients have come from US, Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand as well as in the UK
First set up by Paul Bacsich in 1996, Matic Media Ltd now has a wide range of clients from the education, government and corporate sectors, in the UK, Ireland, Canada and Sweden, as well as intergovernmental agencies including the European Commission and several offices of UNESCO.
Paul Bacsich has been active in consultancy since 1984.
Curriculum Vitae of Paul Bacsich
Paul Bacsich is a consultant who was Professor and Head of Department at Sheffield Hallam University where he set up the university’s original Virtual Campus Programme and then created a research group into online learning as well as leading the distance learning MSc in Networking. Prior to that he was at the Open University in a variety of roles ending as Assistant Director of the Knowledge Media Institute. He was Visiting Professor to the Middlesex University Global Campus in 2006-11 and Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 2012. He has also been External Examiner for several online providers including Middlesex University, Open University, Arab Open University and University of Oxford (Diplomas and Advanced Diplomas in Computing).
This CV focuses on work in online and distance learning 2011-17.
In 2013-14 for the University of Southampton (Web Science Institute), Paul led a study on the global market, system and accreditation aspects of a proposed US-UK online master’s degree. This work was a continuation of a large project in 2011-12 where he was tasked to carry out market and competitor research on the UK HE market for online distance learning. He also was commissioned by the University of Glamorgan to carry out competitor research on 12 proposed programmes and market research on 11 specific countries. At about the same time he was asked by a Canadian university to carry out competitor research on 8 of their existing programmes delivered online across Canada to discover whether they would be appropriate and saleable for a UK and Ireland audience and what level of cultural and regulatory adaptation would be required.
In summer 2016, Paul was a key contributor along with Sarah Porter to a confidential landscape review for the Board of Jisc of advancements in Technology Enhanced Learning in the UK and internationally. Earlier in 2017 he again worked with her on a study for the Atlantic Institute (based at Rhodes House, Oxford) of the online learning and collaboration needs of the Atlantic Fellows network and how to support them: his role was to interpret the user needs expressed to Sarah into technical requirements and then specify and purchase the most appropriate systems, taking note of institutional procedures.
Paul was Chair of the review panel in 2015-16 for the Vision and Strategy Appraisal of the UK Open University Library and associated student services (digital literacy and employability). For this he carried out several benchmarking studies of library support for distance learning at libraries both in UK HE and at leading distance learning providers around the world.
In the early part of 2017 Paul was Senior Expert on an EU study Member States case studies: policies for opening up education, which focussed on national policies (or the lack of them) supportive of open education. He is currently finalising, for a Canadian university active in distance learning, a report on Accreditation of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer with a focus on online Master’s programmes, which looks at 23 institutions spread across 8 countries – as usual each country has a pen-picture of its online learning activity.
He has recently finished a report on credit transfer and APL for online Masters programmes, for a Canadian HE client, but the findings are applicable across the Anglophone world. He is increasingly involved with vocational qualifications and their relevance to HE and also maintains his long-standing interest in virtual schooling (GCSE/AS/A level, equivalents and precursors).
He is an OER Ambassador for ICDE and an EDEN Fellow – and a former Trustee of ALT.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bacsich
- Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/paul-bacsich/
Further information
http://www.matic-media.co.uk/services.htm
Latest publications
- research publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Bacsich
- other publications: http://www.scribd.com/pbacsich
- presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/pbacsich
- wiki work: http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page and http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.eu/index.php/Main_Page
twitter: https://twitter.com/pbacsich