Tanya Rogers
Executive Producer
BSc (Joint Hons), PGCE, MSc (PsyRes), ILTM
Contact
Email: tar@aber.ac.uk
Office: 217
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622795
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622190
Responsibilities
Manage the development, design and delivery of educational materials for the Department. Provide advice & consultancy on instructional design, educational strategy, service delivery & policy development. Oversee the development, delivery and quality control of educational materials (approx 4000 educational products per year, servicing approx 1000 learners). Staff training. Some teaching & learner support. Some external consultancy work when time & Departmental priorities permit.Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Teaching
SKIP SKills Induction Programme; Literacy & Learning; Group work; Human Communication; Research Methods; Research Ethics.
Postgraduate Teaching
SKIP SKills Induction Programme; Research Methods; Research Ethics; Quantitative Data Analysis & SPSS.
Research
Instructional Design; Open & Distance Learning (which by its nature includes e-learning); Research Ethics; Psychology & Learning; Social Cognition in Electronic Interactions; Models of learner support; Assessment Methods.Biography
- Graduated Bristol University, in JointHons Psychology & Sociology.
- Teacher Qualified Leicester University, in English & Communications for Secondary Education & Adult Learners.
- Followed a teaching career, working with adult learners & young offenders.
- 1993 a founding member & Development Officer for the Department’s Open Learning Unit (OLU) - a specialist educational unit for Open, Distance and E learning. In response to requests for alternative and flexible approaches to higher education (from individuals & information profession in Wales), the Unit was set up to develop, support and promote high quality education through open and distance learning - based on the principles of flexible student-centred learning.
- 2001 Master’s distinction Open University (by distance learning), in Pyschological Research Methods. This consolidated professional interests in a) approaches to research and data analysis and b) social cognition in online environments, i.e. how we think and communicate during online interactions.
- 2008 To balance commitments to family & farming, changed post to Executive Producer (part-time) - overseeing the development, design and delivery of educational materials for the Department. This work includes providing advice & consultancy on instructional design, educational strategy, service delivery & policy development. Overseeing the development, delivery and quality control of educational materials (approx 4000 educational products per year, servicing approx 1000 learners). The post also includes staff training, some teaching & learner support, and external consultancy work when time & Departmental priorities permit.
Additional Interests
Professional Activities
•The British Psychological Society
•The Higher Education Academy
Consultancy
•Technical Universities of Zvolen & Kosice, Slovakia: project consultancy, partnership, staff training and evaluation – in the development of online distance learning programmes.
•University of Lampeter; University of East London, Ford Motor Company & University of East Anglia: consultancy & staff training to develop distance learning programmes and materials
•The Britten Pears Foundation, The Music Libraries Trust & International Association of Music Libraries: partnership & staff training to develop stand-alone CPD training materials.
•CILIP Cymru’s Training Group: staff training workshops about presentation skills.
•Welsh public library services: staff training workshops in ICT User Education & staff Mentoring.
•International Antiquarian Bookseller’s Association: project partnership and staff training.
•Coleg Ceredigion: teacher training workshops about educational principles and delivery.
•Departments within Aberystwyth University e.g. a 200k KEF funded collaboration with the School of Management and Business to develop free online support & training materials for local SMEs; and staff training for Depts of Law, Education & Lifelong Learning, International Politics, Rural Studies, Staff Development Office ILT/PGCTHE programme.
•Via Aberystwyth University’s Commercialisation and Consultancy Services, provide training to local small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) about presentation skills and product marketing.