Kathy Trinder

Kathy is a lecturer (e-learning) at Glasgow Caledonian University in the Department of General Professional and Academic Studies (GAPS). She is currently working between two projects – DEeLTA and LEX

• LEX - a study on the learner's experience of e-learning (JISC)
• DEeLTA - Designing & Evaluating e-Learning & Teaching Approaches (ESF)

Kathy’s background is in learning technology and she has been at GCU for a number of years. She has worked in the fields of media production, development of teaching & learning materials, learning technologies and staff development for nearly 20 years.

In 1989, after being self employed with a media production company, she joined the Glasgow Colleges of Nursing & Midwifery and then moved with the colleges to GCU, where she was closely involved with projects such as the creation of the Intensive Care Unit computer simulations ("By George they've got it" THES 1999). She then moved on to work as an e-Learning Developer in eLISU, with involvement in a variety of projects, including staff support for Blackboard, taking part in the CBS Rapid Development Task Force (RDTF) "Carpe Diem" events, development of a range of other e-learning modules (such as Community Nurse Assessment and "Illustrating History"), and where she furthered her interest in the use of mobile devices to support learning, including such projects as "Using mobile technologies to support flexible learning" with CBS.

She has a BA in Visual Communications and a PGdip in Multimedia Computing. In 2003 she graduated from the OU with an MA in Open and Distance Learning (MAODE). This course, which was studied entirely online, has given her a unique in-sight into the production processes, teaching and moderating, and the student perspective of online learning.

Conference papers, journals and publications:

Trinder et al,  (2005) "Competition for their pockets: er, I left it at home", presentation and discussion at Handheld Learning 2005, http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/hl2005/

Trinder, K.R, Roberts, G, Siddiqui, N, (2005), “Exploring mobile technologies to support flexible learning communities”, Workshop on Learning Communities in the era of Ubiquitous Computing, 2nd International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Italy, 2005, http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~divitini/ubilearn2005/

Trinder, K. R., Bryans, A., (2005) “Developing a community nursing, media rich, e-learning module: Challenges and Choices”, Poster presentation, E-learning in Health & Social Care - Theory to Practice, Wrexham, March, 2005,  http://www.newi.ac.uk/elearninghealth/abstracts_poster_presentations.htm

Docherty, C., Hoy, D., Topp, H., Trinder, K (2005), “eLearning techniques supporting problem based learning in clinical simulation”, International Journal of Medical Informatics, http://www.intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/ijmi/

Docherty et al, (2004), “Using ELearning Techniques to Support Problem Based Learning Within a Clinical Simulation Laboratory”, MedInfo 2004, http://cmbi.bjmu.edu.cn/news/report/2004/medinfo2004
/pdffiles/papers/4703Docherty.pdf

Docherty et al, (1999). “The development and evaluation
of an enquiry based virtual learning environment”, Collaboration and Learning in Virtual Environments 1999, Jyväskylä, Finland

e: k.trinder@gcal.ac.uk
t: 0141 273 1332
a: Room RS211, 6 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB

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