Debbie Holley, Professor of Learning Innovation recently joined HSS and is leading innovation in research and teaching in her new role, as well as focusing on the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework (REF), co-convening Bournemouth’s first UoA23 (Education) submission. Her expertise lies with blending learning to motivate and engage students with their learning inside /outside the formal classroom, at a time and place of their own choosing. This encompasses the blend between learning inside the classroom and within professional practice placements, scaffolding informal learning in the workplace. Within health, she is seeking to offer evidence based practice in the development and evaluation of digital health applications. With a personal 3* research profile, she writes extensively the affordances of technologies such as Augmented Reality, Virtual/ Immersive Realities and Mobile Learning. She is currently working as part of the iLRN's State of XR and Immersive Learning Expert Panel, which reports early in 2020.

A passionate and committed educator, Debbie is a National Teaching Fellow, and an elected member of their National Committee. She is on the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) National Steering Group. Previously as Head of the Centre for Excellence in Learning at BU she managed three teams to deliver digital culture change following the procurement of Brightspace, a new institutional VLE. This was been utilised as a springboard to encourage the redesign and move to pedagogical approaches by programme teams. The move toward more blended approaches to learning has seen the body of work feature as a JISC National ‘good practice’ case study (https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-organisational-approaches-to-digital-capability). Debbie is a JISC digital expert on their student experience panel, and a regular keynote speaker at educational, technological and policy conferences, both in the UK and internationally.

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