Leonie Ramondt

2007-current Staff development, Inspire, Centre for Learning and Teaching, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford

-Presenter on Massively multi-user virtual worlds for learning
-Project manager for the redevelopment of Anglia's Teachinclusive website
-Staff development- Supporting our students' wellbeing
-Project co-ordinator, Equality proofing the Curriculum a project for embedding Inclusion into University practices
- Researcher Mind the Gap- Anglia Ruskin Student mental health initiative
- Consultant Becta- eMaturity
- Member of the New Dynamics of Ageing Bid Consortium- Loughborough University
- Facilitator/enabler - PRADSA online community for Social Activists - collaboratively researching/ developing the use of technology for social change (An EPSRC and AHRC Design for the 21st Century initiative)
- Member of the London Game Research Group


1997- 2006 Ultralab, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK- Online Learning Community Specialist

Working at Ultralab has allowed me to research and develop liberating structures that scaffold self-directed and remote teamwork while delivering large projects on time and in budget. Transparency, level structures and dialogue have allowed us to be innovative, dynamic and hugely ambitious in utilizing the new web technologies to generate delightful learning and participation.

2004-2006 Principal researcher/consultant in future technologies.
- Researching the future use of technology for the BBC (see publications).
- Researched participatory e-democracy with Great Yarmouth Council developing methodologies for citizen participation using SMS messaging to a large screen.
- Researched student participation in school design for the designmyschool.net project with the Design Council.
- Researched the use of mobile game technologies for learning, with the MGBL EU funded, consortium.
- Represented the Technology for Social Action consortium at a variety of events, and collaboratively designed their successful Design for the 21st Century bid.
- Worked with the Enabling technologies group to explore the assistive and empowering use of technology for people with disabilities.
- Wrote a commissioned paper on e-maturity for BECTA,
- Consulted on e-learning design with the faculty of Education at Anglia Ruskin University,
- Co-delivered with Stephen Heppell The Information Technology Education Show keynote in Birmingham,
- Delivered the Keynote at the Salford University elearning conference,
_ Wrote several bids for funding.

2000-2003 Project Leader.
- Led the research and development of the Talking Heads online community for head teachers in advance of National College of School Leadership. This laid the foundations for the £4 million, 4 year NCSL's online communities project, assisting to bring professional communities of practice into the lives of 70,000 English school leaders. Until the successful novation to NCSL - the communities were facilitated by Ultralab's agile, collaborative team of 23 online learning facilitators who empowered members to appropriate web technologies for their own contexts.

1997-1999 Online learning community facilitator.
Researched and developed online learning community methodologies.
- Established OLN, the Online Learning Network for educationalists in advance of the University for Industry (UfI) 1997-1998.
- Co-wrote the successful SMILE bid,(the SME Internet Learning Experience) and facilitated the online community of practice that was funded by EU / ADAPT to examine how engineers in the automotive and aerospace industries can integrate online community methodologies into their supply chains 1998-1999.

Edith Cowan University, Perth Australia
1993-1997 Lecturer, tutor, researcher and curriculum developer in Multimedia design;
- Instructional design,
- User interface design,
for undergraduate to post graduate students and
- Bridging Computing (multimedia)
for long term unemployed people coming into university.

New Media Designer - Self employed
1993-1997 Community Visions - Independent video producer.
Educational and documentary videos. Director, writer, producer and video editor.
Projects included:
Growing up tough, a 27 minute documentary about male role conditioning
A Real Place, a 10 minute documentary about community integration for a young woman with profound disabilities.
Both were designed for a teen audience.

1993-1997 Grow aWare - Multimedia software designer.
Projects included:
The Arthur project- an innovative implementation of digital video in an interactive drama with student commentary
The Playbuilding CD Rom - designed collaboratively with theatre arts students to provided source materials for drama improvisation.
I also collaboratively designed a help system for the Perth Hospital patient database.

Palyalkula Perth Australia
1981-1987 Rehabilitation counsellor. Using drama, video, computers and dialogue to raise self esteem and empower people with disabilities.

North Ryde Psychiatric Centre Sydney Australia
1971-1974 Registered Psychiatric Nurse.

- Transforming organisations through inquiry based practice.
- How web based and mobile technologies can be designed to support online communities and teams in their: collaborative self-management, self-evaluation, effective resource exchange and accountability.
- How can 3D environments and virtual presence best be utilised to widen participation, support positive mental health, community revitalisation, through dialogue, skill sharing, collaboration and reflective practice?
- What strategies scaffold the most effective appropriation of web technologies for self help, participative action research and social action?

- Online facilitator - SMILE project - SME Internet Learning Experience- ADAPT funded project to build online learning community for SME's in the automotive and aerospace supply chain.
- Online Communities for the National College of School Leadership: researching, and developing the use of web based collaborative online learning community technologies by school leaders to enhance their professional practice.