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Terence Karran
Terence Karran was the University of Lincoln’s director of Teaching and Learning Research, where he was involved with developing the university’s Virtual Campus, which was first created with an endowment from BP plc in 1992. He was also the course director of the university-wide Master’s by Learning Contract postgraduate programme.
Since 2001 he has been a director of the Open Learning Foundation, and from 2000–04 he was chair of the European Studies Centres Network of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities. In 1999 he was a visiting professor in educational technology at the University of Oulu, where he wrote a definitive paper on the development of the Finnish Virtual University; he is now a docent of the university, and has acted as an external consultant for the Finnish Ministry of Education on the FVU project.
His current research interests include organisation models for virtual universities, and EU credit and assessment issues within borderless education, in respect of which he is leading a European consortium using EU funding to create a jointly awarded online MBA. He has considerable experience of managing research projects, both individu-ally and collaboratively, for a diverse range of public- and private-sector funding bod-ies at the regional, national and European level including Wakefield, Leeds, and Hull City Councils, the British Council, BP Amoco plc, the Home Office, HEFCE (TLTP and Widening-participation Initiatives), European Social Fund, ERDF and Socrates.
He spent two years recently on secondment to the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico.
Relevant documents by Terence Karran
- File:Karran eMexico UNESCO2005.pdf: E-MEXICO - BUILDING ON SUCCESS, FOR SUCCESS, by TERENCE KARRAN (member of our International Advisory Committee) (PDF, 4 pages, in English)
- File:Karran TandPohjonen J2000a.pdf: Responding to the Vision of the Information Society: First Steps Towards a National Virtual University. A Policy Discussion Paper by Terence Karran and Juha Pohjonen, Finland, 2005 (PDF, 124 pages, English) ISBN 951-42-5587-9
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