User:Paul Multeversity

Paul Bacsich, MA, PhD, is Chief Executive Officer of Dualversity. This continues his career in e-learning consultancy since he founded Matic Media in 1996. He consults, usually with Dualversity and other trusted colleagues, for a number of university, school, government, international (e.g. EU and UNESCO), commercial and venture clients in most aspects of online learning (e-learning): including VLE/LMS selection, market/competitor/pricing research, change management, business models, strategy development and funding/policy issues.

In 2018-19 he led the team which developed and first taught the innovative online course Teaching Teachers to Teach Online (TTTOL) for Wey Education plc: this is now being updated. He also works on accreditation, quality, retention, cost-benefits, time, open resources, 21st century skills, competences etc relevant to multeversity and in "dual system" providers (HE/FE or FE/schools).

He has led many EU projects and studies including VISCED, POERUP, SharedOER and ADOERUP and participated in several more. His international work in recent years has covered Ireland, Sweden and France, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Japan and Hong Kong. In 2012 he was Visiting Canterbury Fellow in New Zealand. In August 2013 he co-led a workshop in Brazil for the leaders of private providers of HE. In 2014 he carried out global market research in e-learning for a Canadian university. In 2015-16 he led the external review of e-learning at Uppsala University, a prestigious university in Sweden, and advised the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Ireland on infrastructure issues for universities. In 2018-2019 he made visits to several countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean.

After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he did his PhD work at UCLA and the University of Bristol, then was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Mathematical Institute and Wolfson College before joining the Open University and while there helping to found the Knowledge Media Institute. He later became Professor at Sheffield Hallam University before taking up full-time consultancy.

His current academic links are as Visiting Professor at the University of Derby Online. He also has been Professor of Practice at the University of West Indies Open Campus (2018-21), Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Visiting Professor at Middlesex University Global Campus and a Visiting Fellow at both Deakin University and the National Institute for Multimedia Education in Japan.