Brian Hudson

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First Name: Brian

Last Name: Hudson

Occupation: Professor in Educational Work

Institution: Department of Interactive Media and Learning, Umeå University

Address: S-901 87 Umeå

Country: Sweden

Phone: +46 (0)90 786 6037

Fax: +46 (0)90 786 9596

E-Mail: brian.hudson@educ.umu.se

WebSite: http://www.ufm.org.umu.se/medverkande/brian.hudson/index.html

Fields of expertise: curriculum development , didactics of Mathematics , evaluation assessment , teachers training , quality assurance , higher education , information technology in education , e-Learning ,

Language skills: English , Basic Deutsch and French ,

References (most recent publications):

Hudson, B. (2008) Didaktik Design for Technology Supported Learning, Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft: Alte oder neue Didaktik ( Work in progress ).

Hudson , B. (2007) Learning mathematically as social practice in a workplace setting. In Watson, A. and Winbourne, P. (Eds) New Directions for Situated Cognition in Mathematics Education, New York/Boston/ Dordrecht/London/Moscow: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 287-301.

Hudson, B. and Schneuwly, B. (2007) (Eds.) Special Issue of the European Educational Research Journal (EERJ) on Didactics – Learning and Teaching in Europe, No. 2, 2007 http://www.wwwords.co.uk/EERJ/content/pdfs/6/issue6_2.asp

Hudson , B. (2007) Comparing different traditions of teaching and learning: what can we learn about teaching and learning? In Hudson, B. and Schneuwly, B. (Eds.) Special Issue of the European Educational Research Journal (EERJ) on Didactics – Learning and Teaching in Europe, No. 2, 2007 http://www.wwwords.co.uk/EERJ/content/pdfs/6/issue6_2.asp

Hudson, B., Owen, D. and van Veen, K. (2006) Working on educational research methods with Masters students in an international online learning community, British Journal of Educational Technology, 37, 4, 577-603 ( http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2005.00553.x )

CV:

Brian HUDSON , Ph.D, is Professor of Educational Work for ICT and Learning (2005-) in the Faculty of Teacher Education; Head of Research and Research Education in the Department of Interactive Media and Learning ( IML) and a member of the Umea Mathematics Education Research Centre ( UMERC) at Umea University in Sweden.

Brian Hudson has been co-ordinator of the MATHED Intensive Doctoral Programme: Researching the teaching and learning of mathematics (2002-05) and joint co-ordinator of the (LEARN) Intensive Programme: E-Learning in Higher Education (2002-06) for doctoral students of the European Doctorate in Teaching and Teacher Education (EUDORA) project.

At this time he is the main convenor of Network 27 of the European Educational Research Association Didactics - Learning and Teaching and co-convenor of Network 6 Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures ( OPENnet). He is a member of the Board of the thematic network Educational Repositories Network ( EdReNe); leader of the Internal Evaluation work package of the European Commission e-Learning project eLearning network for the development of a Teaching and Learning service Centre ( eLeneTLC) and leader of Work Package 2: The New Technologies of E-Learning of the EC Transversal Project: Implementing e-Learning 2.0 in everyday learning processes in higher and vocational education (eJUMP 2.0), co-ordinated by the Estonian e-University. He is also working with colleagues at Umea University on the EC FP7 research project European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI) co-ordinated by the European Educational Research Association ( EERA). At a national level he is leader of the project Process Based Assessment through Blended Learning ( P@RABLE) funded by the Swedish Agency for Networks and Co-operation in Higher Education (2007-08).

He was a teacher of secondary school mathematics for fifteen years, prior to starting to work in teacher education in 1988. He completed a PhD in mathematics education in 1995 on the topic of Group Work with Multimedia in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom and in 2001 was appointed Professor of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2004 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE). He is currently a Visiting Professor of Education in the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University.

He has long-standing research interests in mathematics education, teacher education and the use of information and communications technology in teaching and learning. At the present time he is developing his research interests around the conception of Didaktik design for technology supported learning and also of teaching as a design profession. He is especially interested in the associated creative potential of such an approach for teaching and teacher education at all levels of the education system.

Recent projects

2008 - Leader of Work Packages 2&8: The New Technologies of E-Learning and Conducting Action Research, EC Transversal Project: Implementing e-Learning 2.0 in everyday learning processes in higher and vocational education (eJUMP 2.0), co-ordinated by the Estonian e-University

2007 - Project Leader: Process-based assessment through blended learning, Swedish Agency for Networks and Cooperation in Higher Education (NSHU). http://dekiwiki.iml.umu.se/

2007 - Educational Repositories Network (EdReNe), eContentplus 2006 call (OJ 2006 - C172/24), Co-ordinator, Umea University, Management Board member. http://edrene.org/

2007 - eLene-TLC: eLearning network for the development of a Teaching and Learning service Centre, eLearning Project, Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission, 2007-09, Evaluation Work Package Leader. http://www.elene-tlc.net/Home

2006 - SPIDER, Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions and University of Colombo, School of Computing (UCSC) National E-learning Centre (NeLC) Project, e-Assessment 2007-2010, PhD study supervisor. http://www.spidercenter.org/

2006 SOCRATES Intensive Programme ELHE: e-learning in Higher Education, Estonia , June 2006 (Joint Co-ordinator) http://www.eudoraportal.org/Learn/ip2006

2005 SOCRATES Intensive Programme MATHED III: Researching the teaching and learning of mathematics, Estonia, July 2005 (Co-ordinator) http://www.isoc.siu.no/isocii.nsf/projectlist/28071

2005 - 06 Associate Director, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Promoting Learner Autonomy, Sheffield Hallam University

2005 SOCRATES Intensive Programme ELHE: e-learning in Higher Education, Estonia , July 2005 (Joint Co-ordinator)

2004 - 06 FDTL5 Project, Active Learning-Active Citizenship (ALAC): developing resources for the teaching and learning of citizenship and political literacy, HEFCE (Principal Applicant and Project Director), Sheffield Hallam University

2004 SOCRATES Intensive Programme MATHED II: Researching the teaching and learning of mathematics, Slovenia, August 2004 (Co-ordinator)

2004 SOCRATES Intensive Programme ELHE: e-learning in Higher Education, Estonia , July 2004 (Joint Co-ordinator)

2004 eRNIST strand 3: Analysis of success factors in network building (Phase 1), European Research Network for ICT in Schools of Tomorrow (with F. Buchberger, A. El Gamal and M. Laanpere), e-Learning project of the European Commission, European Schoolnet.

2003- 06 SOCRATES Advanced Curriculum Development projects EUDORA: European Doctorate in Teaching and Teacher Education

2000- 03 SOCRATES Advanced Curriculum Development projects EDIL: European Doctorate in Teaching and Teacher Education

2003 SOCRATES Intensive Programme MATHED I: Researching the teaching and learning of mathematics, PADB Linz, July 2003 (Co-ordinator)

Recent Publications Books:

Hudson , B. and Nyström, P. (2007) Language across the mathematics curriculum in Sweden. In Ongstad, S (Ed) Language in Mathematics? A comparative study of four national curricula. A report to The Council of Europe from the Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) group in Mathematics Education, Oslo, June 2007

Hudson, B. and Fragner, J. (Eds) (2005) Researching the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics II. Linz: Universitätswerlag Rudolf Trauner. http://www.ph-ooe.at/fileadmin/user_upload/internationalitaet/mathed.pdf

Ongstad, S., Hudson, B., Pepin, B., Imsen, G. and Kansanen, P. (2005) Didaktik and/in Mathematics Education. Studying a Discipline in International, Comparative and Communicational Perspectives. Oslo: Oslo University College, Norway.

Hudson, B. and Enser, K. (Eds.) (2004) Proceedings of MATHED I:Intensive Programme Researching the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, Institute of Comparative Education, Pädagogische Hochschule Linz, Austria, 2-12 July 2003. Linz: Universitätswerlag Rudolf Trauner. http://www.ph-ooe.at/fileadmin/user_upload/internationalitaet/mathed_buch.pdf

Hudson, B., Keifer, S., Laanpere, M. and Rugeli, J. (2004) eLearning in Higher Education: Proceedings of Intensive Programme LEARN I, Tallinn University, Viljandi, Estonia, 1-11 July 2004. Linz: Universitätswerlag Rudolf Trauner. http://www.ph-ooe.at/fileadmin/user_upload/internationalitaet/learn_buch.pdf

Hudson, B. and Todd, M. (Eds) (2000) Internationalising the Curriculum in Higher Education:Reflecting on Practice, Sheffield Hallam University Press.

Hudson, B., Buchberger, F., Kansanen, P. and Seel, H. (Eds) (1999) Didaktik/Fachdidaktik as the Science(-s) of the Teaching Profession?, Thematic Network for Teacher Education in Europe. TNTEE Publications, Vol 2, No. 1. http://tntee.umu.se/publications/publications.html

Chapters in Books:

Hudson , B. (2007) Learning mathematically as social practice in a workplace setting. In Watson, A. and Winbourne, P. (Eds) New Directions for Situated Cognition in Mathematics Education, New York/Boston/Dordrecht/London/Moscow: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 287-301.

Hudson , B. (2005) Orchestrating interdependence in an international on-line learning community. In Mischke, J. (Ed.) Akademia on-line. Łodz: Wyźsza Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi, 29-34.

Hudson , B. and Magjana, Z. (2003) Mathematics Workshop Report. In Rozemeijer, S, (Ed) Drafting New Curricula in South-East Europe: Final Report of the Regional Seminar Held in Bohinj, Slovenia, 26-28 April 2002, UNESCO International Bureau of Education, Geneva, Switzerland, pp 33-34.

Hudson , B. (2002) Comparative perspectives on curriculum renewal in mathematics education. In Proceedings of a Seminar of the South East European Education Co-operation Network on Drafting New Curricula, Bohinj, Slovenia, 26-28 April 2002. Geneva: International Bureau of Education - UNESCO. http://www.see-educoop.net/portal/id_workshop_bohinj.htm

Published Papers (Refereed Academic Journals):

Hudson, B. (2008) Didaktik Design for Technology Supported Learning, Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft: Alte oder neue Didaktik (In press).

Hudson , B., Hudson, A. and Steel, J. (2006) Orchestrating interdependence in an international online learning community, British Journal of Educational Technology, 37, 5, 733-748. ( http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2006.00552.x)

Owen, D., Hudson, B. and Tervola, T. (2006) Learning in, about and with open and flexible learning environments: an evaluation of student and tutor experiences in a European learning community, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 15, 3, 291-306. (http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1080/14759390600923642 )

Buchberger, F., Hudson, B., Laanpere, M. and El Gamal, A. (2005) Analysis of Success Factors in Network Building: Study of the European Research Network for ICT in Schools of Tomorrow (eRNIST) project, European Education Research Journal, 4, 3, 256-312. http://www.wwwords.co.uk/eerj/content/pdfs/4/issue4_3.asp

Hudson , B. (2003) Zachowując zlożoność i poszukając znaczenia: nauczanie jako dzialanie refleksyjine, Ruch Pedagogiczny, 1-2, Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna ZNP, Rok LXXIV Warszawa.

Hudson, B. (2003) Approaching educational research from the tradition of critical-constructive Didaktik, Pedagogy, Culture and Society 11, 2, 173-187.

Hudson, B. (2002) Holding complexity and searching for meaning - teaching as reflective practice, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 34, 1, 43-57.

Hudson, B. (2000) A social perspective on teaching and learning in the context of Computer Mediated Communication in teacher education, Journal of Information Technology in Teacher Education, 8, 3, 345-356.

Published Papers (Refereed Conference Proceedings):

Hudson, B. and Hudson, A. (2007) Networking for development: a case study of collaboration and achievements through EU programmes in promoting ICT supported learning environments, European E-Learning and Distance Education Conference (EDEN), 2007.

Hudson, B. (2006) Promoting postgraduate learner engagement in communities of practice across national boundaries, Multi-National Forum of Teacher-Scholars, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, 5 July 2006. [WWW document] URL http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/5050.htm

Hudson, B. (2005) Networking as/for knowledge transformation and innovation:from research-based practice to the scholarship of teaching and learning, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) 2005 Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, 14-16 October 2005.

Hudson, B. (2005) Developing an international open and flexible networked learning community at doctoral level: evaluating initial outcomes of a European Doctorate in Teaching and Teacher Education (EUDORA), Higher Education Academy Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 29 June – 1 July 2005.

Hudson, B. (2005) Research-Based Practice: on the relationship between action research and design research in the context of the development of an international on-line MSc programme, LERU Invitation Seminar on Research-Based Teaching in HE, League of European Research-Intensive Universities, University of Helsinki, 22-23 March 2005, pp. 37-39.

Hudson, B. (2004) Supporting learners in an international online learning community: on the role of formative assessment, European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) Research Workshop 2004, University of Oldenberg, 04-06 March 2004, pp 65-70.

Hudson , B. (2002) Competition or Collaboration: Conflicting Paradigms of Teaching-Learning, Assessment and Institutional Development? EDEN 2002 - European Distance Education Network, University of Granada, 16-19 June 2002.