Teaching, learning and/or assessment processes.

My love of language teaching is central to my identity and permeates all that I do both on and offline. I have been able to fully embrace my role as an academic language teacher in Higher Education through the process of applying to the HEA and being awarded a Senior Fellowship, for promotion internally where I am now a Principal Teaching Fellow, and becoming a founder fellow of the newly established Warwick International Higher Education Academy. A highlight of my professional development in language education was the invitation to deliver a keynote at the LLAS E-learning symposium in 2016 where I framed my life experience as a call to language professional to spend more time engaging in online spaces in order to bring their communicative expertise to their learners.

Language education is often sidelined in the UK, hence the need for national mobilisation to defend the opportunities to access and prevent language education returning to limited availability in more exclusive teaching contexts. It is this perilous state of language learning which also drives my desire to practice as openly as possible. I continue to share my teaching materials as an open practitioner and found the suggestion for a guild based approach suggested by Terry Loane through the Open Education sig . The opportunity to work jointly on research around sustainability with colleagues at Monash University, Australia resulted in a publication as part of a special issue which will form the basis of a presentation I shall deliver at #OER17.

I have also been able to work collaboratively to publish on the use of open badges to recognise skills acquisition through Online Intercultural Exchange in this volume building on the work I have done in the Clavier project reported in the original CMALT submission. I have also collaborated with others in HE on open badges, organising a conference at Southampton University. I have profiles on several open badge sites such as:

BadgeList ; Open Badge Passport ; Credly

My experience of working on the European project Video for All provided a welcome platform to create open educational resources which could be used to train teachers and increase their understanding of the issues around digital media creation and use. The project provides cross referenced examples of teaching practice, each with suggestions for modification for different sectors and guidance for technical and pedagogical decisions. I recently facilitated an online workshop for the University of Limerick to disseminate this.

Working in areas such as video has brought a sharp focus on copyright issues and their negative effect when looking to teach and learn languages. This is explored in this published paper on Produsage which I wrote collaboratively with a Monash colleague. Such scholarly work has helped me to develop a strong academic profile in technology enhanced language learning.

I curate a wide range of video resources on an open gallery made available to us as part of our Kaltura provision, this has been a useful way to increase the visibility of teaching and learning resources such as tutorials and academic webinars. I play an active part in contributing to Warwick's teaching and learning community which is increasingly using technology to enhance learning.

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