Education and Training

Education

• July 1999 - 2003: PhD - Nyenrode University, The Netherlands Business School: "An investigation into virtual learner-centred solutions for competency-based management education".

• Sept 95 - Nov 96: Master in Management Development - Euro-Arab Management School, Granada, Spain
  Awarded Distinction.
  - including theories of learning in a managerial context;
  - pedagogical technologies for management development;
  -developing cross-cultural distance learning material;
  - training to run a management education project

• Oct 94 - Aug 95: MPhil Research: SOAS, London University.
  Research title: "Development of Health Resources for the Arab community of Palestine from the Mandate period onwards"

• Sept 93 - Oct 94 MA, African & Asian History, SOAS, London University
  - Palestinian political developments & decolonisation in the Maghreb

• Sept 90 - June 91 Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Mansfield College, Oxford
  University

• June 89 - July 89 RSA TEFL, Anglo School, London
  

• Sept 86 - June 89 MA (Cantab) Trinity Hall, Cambridge University
  BA Hons, History
  French Proficiency exam
  
  

Training

I have been involved in a number of conferences and workshops on learning technology, virtual education and training:

· First European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, March 2001, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
· Trainers' Workshop on "Improving Training Quality through Peer Learning and Distance Mentoring", May 1998 - March 1999. (Organised by the Economic Development Institute at the World Bank, the Continuing Education Center at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand and the College of Education at the University of Illinois).
· Euro-Med Working Conference on "Education and Information Society", EDIS 98, Marrakech, October 1998 (organised by the Ministry of Higher Education, Executive Training and Scientific Research, Morocco and the European Commission.)
· Workshop on "Improving Economic Management Training", Mediterranean Development Forum, hosted by the World Bank in Marrakech, Morocco, May 1997.
· Ulysses Management Development Programme for Russian managers, at EAMS, Granada, 1997.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

· Society for Improving Training Quality (alumni network of the Knowledge and Learning Technology workshops of the World Bank Institute)

· Association for Learning Technology

· Association for Information Systems.