Peter Woodbridge

Peter Woodbridge is a Moving-Image & Digital Media Specialist and Senior Lecturer in the Coventry University Department of Media and Communication. His research and scholarship includes instigating a number of innovations in Open Education within the Creative Arts and Humanities, including leading the development on projects with iTunes U[1] and YouTube Edu[2][3] which have helped to make thousands of hours of Open Educational Resources available freely online, resulting in millions of downloads and accesses. He has a number of research publications and book chapters in the area of digital media, surveillance cultures and the education in the era of networked societies.[4][5][6] He is co-founder of the Liquid Theory TV project[7] which is a collaboration between the King's College London and Coventry University and contributes to the work of the Centre for Disruptive Media[8] as well as a number of other open educational publishing series[9]

He has also lead and participated in the development a number of significant research projects in the area of digital media and education in the Arts and Humanities for the AHRC,[10] Jisc,[11][12] UNDP[13] and HEFCE[14] as well as creating the world's first iPhone App for an Open Higher Education Class in Photography.[15] He developed the free and open source university level Creative Activism Class (#creativactivism) [16] which explores tactical uses of digital storytelling from January to April each year. He also co-founded the Cine Collective - an online open source class in digital cinematography.[17]

He has been an invited lecturer to Warwick University, Goldsmiths, Zhejiang University of Media and Communications (ZUMC) in China, Stellenbosch University in South Africa and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and has undertaken digital consultancy work for a number of companies, charities and organisations. He was highly commended for his contribution to Innovation and Creativity in Higher Education at the 2010 HEIST AWARDS.

References

  1. ↑ "Coventry University Launches iTunes U Site", Journalism.co.uk, 8 June 2009. Accessed 7 July 2011
  2. ↑ "Leading UK and European Universities join YouTube Edu", Google Press Release, 1 October 2009. Accessed 7 July 2011
  3. ↑ "Coventry University Launches YouTube Content Partnership", Times Higher Education, 25 September 2008. Accessed 7 July 2011
  4. ↑ "Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control", Culture Machine: Open Humanities Press Journal, 8 January 2010. Accessed 7 July 2011
  5. ↑ "Open Pedagogies in Creative Media: Moving from Knowledge Consumption to Exchange", Journal of Media Practice, 24 June 2011. Accessed 7 July 2011
  6. ↑ "Chapter on Radical Education in the Creative Arts in Face the Future", Edited by John Mair and Richard Keeble, 8 March 2011
  7. ↑ "Liquid Theory TV", 12 September 2009
  8. ↑ "Open Media Research Group Podcasts"
  9. ↑ "Discussing Podcasting", Oxford/Open University Podcasts, 15 June 2009. Accessed 7 July 2011
  10. ↑ "Digital Archiving in Creative Arts Project", Arts and Humanities Research Council, 15 June 2009. Accessed 7 July 2011
  11. ↑ "Living Books About Life Project", Joint Information Systems Committee, 25 July 2011. Accessed 7 July 2011
  12. ↑ "JISC Project". Accessed 7 July 2011
  13. ↑ "Migration Aware UNDP Project", United Nations Development Programme, March 2007. Accessed 7 July 2011
  14. ↑ "Same But Different: Equality and Diversity in Higher Education", Higher Education Funding Council for England, 15 May 2007. Accessed 7 July 2011
  15. ↑ "Picturing the Body Open Education Class App Launched", 15 Feb 2011. Accessed 7 July 2011
  16. ↑ "Creativactivism.net -Creative Activism Free and Open Participatory Degree Class"
  17. ↑ "Cine Collective Open Source Degree Class in Cinematography"

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