Chris Wakeman

Biography

Having spent 11 years as an aeronautical engineer with Rolls Royce Motors Ltd., I retrained as a secondary school teacher during the 1980s, taking up my first teaching post in Llandudno, North Wales during 1989. I went on to spend 7 years in schools, completing a Master of Arts Degree in Education with the Open University before being appointed as a Ministry of Defence (MoD) lecturer and Head of Mathematics at Royal Air Force (RAF) Cosford during 1996. During my time with the MoD, I was part of the initial project team that was set up to establish Distance Learning provision for the training of RAF engineering technicians and was sponsored to complete my Doctorate in Education with the Open University between 1998 and 2002. After working as a visiting lecturer on the University of Wolverhampton (UoW) PGCE programme during 2000/2001, I was later appointed as the Course leader for Education Studies at the UoW where I remained for 4 years before taking up a post as Curriculum Development Manager at Staffordshire University.

Research Interest

Technology enhanced learning; and have a particular current interest in ‘screencasting’ and how it may be used to enhance learning. Emotional intelligence. Research Management; currently the managing editor of a small online journal entitled ‘Innovative Practice in Higher Education’.