Paul Bacsich

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In addition to the skills cited under Matic Media Ltd, Paul Bacsich worked for 25 years at the UK Open University ending up as Assistant Director in the Knowledge Media Institute (KMI). During this phase he was Project Director of the JANUS satellite e-learning project under the DELTA programme of Framework 3. He then set up the virtual campus Programme at Sheffield Hallam University in 1997-99, including a large educational and technical research programme, and moved to be Director of Special Projects for the UK e-University (UKeU) in 2003-04. for six months in 2007 he was he was part-time Advisor to the Rector of the Arab Open University (with branches in 6 countries across the Middle East), focussing on updating its learning and teaching strategy including all e-learning aspects during its revalidation/reaccreditation process.

Since 2005 he has been mainly working on benchmarking e-learning, change management and quality issues - under such National initiatives as the Pathfinder Programme, and Gwella in Wales, both run by the Higher Education Academy.

Since 2008 he has also been a Senior Consultant at Sero Consulting Ltd, focussing on contract for JISC and Becta.

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