Staff Profile
Julian Prior
Learning Technologist
Email: j.prior2@bath.ac.uk
Phone: 3864
Room: WH 5.35
Key responsibilities
- Project Officer for Professionalism in the Digital Environment (PriDE), a two-year JISC-funded project which aims to embed digital literacies across the institution
- providing support and guidance in using a range of learning and teaching tools and technologies including: Xerte Toolkits (a free authoring tool for interactive, online content); Adobe Connect (web conferencing and collaboration); Moodle; and Video and audio production, including podcasting
Professional background
- e-Learning Development Officer in the Division for Lifelong Learning at the University of Bath
- twelve years as a Sociology lecturer and e-Learning Coordinator at a further education college in Swindon
Relevant qualifications
- MSc in Education, Technology and Society (University of Bristol) with a dissertation exploring the barriers and enablers faced by practitioners engaged in creating Open Education Resources (OER)
- MA in Sociology (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- PGCE (Social Science) (Institute of Education, University of London)
Publications
- Prior, J. and Salter, M. (2011) ‘Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges.’ In Ariadne. Web Magazine for Information Professionals. Issue 67, July 2011
- Armellini, A., Witthaus, G., Prior, J. and O’Neill, S. (2011). Developing workflow models for the creation of sustainable Open Educational Resources. OER11 Annual Conference, Manchester, UK
