Dualversity

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About

Dualversity was a consultancy company set up in August 2020. It brought together the activities of six learning technology consultants who have worked together via various entities in the last few years – augmented by a number of carefully chosen associates from sectors and countries selected from an extensive collaborative network built up for EU, UNESCO, DFID etc over many years. This was planned to generate greater synergy, more resilience, better management of conflicts of interest and a global international reach.

It was hoped that through the founders’ many links with institutions, agencies, vendors, venture capital firms, IT specialists, OPMs, content developers and start-ups a wide range of additional services could be sourced.

The Founders were :

• Paul Bacsich, CEO, and market/competitor research, acquisitions and private providers lead

• Charlotte Doody, content and course lead

• Kerr Gardiner, benchmarking/review lead

• Dick Moore, technology and colleges lead

• Sarah Porter, universities lead

• Michelle Selinger, schools and corporates lead

By August 2022 three of the founders had stepped back and one other had taken up a full-time post.

Currently Paul Bacsich and Charlotte Doody are leading activity.

Clients

The group brought to the new entity a wide range of clients, many not public. The web site claims the following list of public clients:

• Abertay University
• Becta
• Bucks New University, UK
• Higher Education Academy
• Kortext
• Middlesex University London
• Pearson College, UK
• SeroHE
• Turnitin
• University of Bedfordshire, UK
• University of New South Wales, Australia
• University of Oxford
• University of Sydney, Australia
• Victoria University, Australia
• Wey Education plc

Services

Dualversity proposed to offer a range of bespoke services to help institutions meet their strategic plan.

Universities

• VLE and associated systems selection/benchmarking/review/procurement

• Review of TEL units and libraries/learning centres

• Market and competitor research for online propositions

• Training of lecturers in online teaching/learning/assessment

• OPM review/selection

Schools, Local Authorities and School Trusts

• IT selection and review across groups of schools

• Training of teachers in online teaching/learning/assessment

Colleges

• IT selection and review

• Training of lecturers in online teaching/learning/assessment

Private providers

• IT selection and review

• Training of instructors in online teaching/learning/assessment

• Competitor research, acquisition and due diligence

Companies

• Training of instructors in online teaching/learning/assessment

Government Ministries, Agencies and International Bodies

• Policy analysis

• Options briefs

• National/regional/etc strategies