Richard Windle
Associate Professor for Health E-learning, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
Richard is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is currently co-academic lead for the health e-learning and media (HELM) team at the University of Nottingham. As well as leading online curriculum development, his research and development interests include open multimedia learning content, pedagogy and reuse, stakeholder involvement in content development and student generated content. He has headed a large number of funded research and development projects in these areas. The open educational resource outputs of these projects are being used in over 50 countries worldwide and his research has been published widely. Richard is a Principal Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy, and has previously been a SCORE Fellow in Open Educational development. Richard has been awarded two Lord Dearing Awards for innovation in educational technology. THe HELM team he co-leads, was a runner up in the 2015 Guardian University Awards as well as the UK's Association of Learning Technologists' (ALT) Learning technology team award, 2016. HELM was awarded the community-led award for 2016. Richard is currently co-leading a MOOC based around the creation of digital learning resources for health. Richard works as part of a cross-EU partnership, together with the University of Stavanger, Norway and the Catholic University of Valencia, Spain. Currently the group is completing an EU funded project investigating the co-translation and delivery of multimedia learning resources.