Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones is a Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales with more than 25 years of teaching experience. His first degree was in Systems Analysis from the University of the West of England, where he was a research assistant before joining the NHS in Medical Physics. He became a senior manager for health records and then returned to education to study for his second degree in Business Education and Economics with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). He has taught in public and comprehensive schools in the UK, and Further Education Colleges. During this period, he was sent by the British Council to Australia to review how teachers were being taught to use learning technology in the classroom; this was the beginning of his interest of using Learning Technology in the Classroom and teaching other Educators how they could use it. He joined Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2000 in the Cardiff School of Management.

After a period of personal events (marriage, death, divorce, and business failure), he received his first internal funding for research in 2007 for work on Student Feedback via screen capture digital video, this was followed by funding for the development of the Red, Amber Green Experience (R.A.G.E.) in the classroom system from the Higher Education Academy (HEA). The last version of RAGE in 2014 integrated Google glasses as an interface with a limited heads up display with details of student response to questions and their emotional state regards the current teaching. For the last ten years, he has taught in the School of Education to introduce the use of technology in the classroom. These yearly sessions introduce undergraduates to information technologies they can use in their classrooms, including personal response systems, OCR pens (supporting students with dyslexia), mind reading headsets (supporting students with different forms of dysphasia), virtual reality (Google expeditions), and small robotics for supporting coding and mathematics. He was part of a report about virtual reality and tourism that appeared on the BBC news and resides on their website.

He spent a two-year period in the Quality Enhancement Department where he was asked to review and plan the introduction of Online Learning (FDL) to the University. For the last five years he has been a Field Chair for modules in computing, a moderator of courses and modules in the Computing and Business fields; Super Moderator and Link Tutor of multiple programmes for Transnational Education (TNE), this is all related to ensuring compliance to Quality Standards. He has Chaired and been a panel member for the validation of new and the revalidation of programmes. These programmes have been from Foundation to Master levels and included programmes in Education, Arts, Sports, Management, Agriculture, and Technologies. As a senior fellow of the HEA he has acted a mentor for candidates and a reviewer of submissions for the devolved HEA competency framework committee.

In 2018, he developed NotesSui a system to support students with visual impairments and the presentation of materials. From 4000 entries, he was one of 100 who were invited to San Francisco to display their work. The presentation was made using the system, which enabled those challenged by dyslexia, being partially sighted, colour blind, and with the visual side effects of multiple sclerosis to have the presentation in a more acceptable format. In addition, the system allowed the presentation to be displayed in English, Welsh, Spanish, Mandarin, and limited form of British Sign Language. This system has been supported by Erasmus with a European tour of Turkey and Finland to explore possible use, and it continues to be develop to be more portable.

From reading this, you should realise that Nigel Jones is an experienced teacher interested in the use of Information Technology in the classroom, has lead the design and creation of educational solutions, has been involved in development of and validation of programmes, is interested in the development of academic staff, and compliance of quality standards.