Anna Peachey

Learning Consultant & Trainer

• B.Eng. Honours Degree , Mechanical Engineering
• Open University Associate Teaching Fellow with the COLMSCT Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
• Received Open University Teaching Award 2005
• Expert in e-Learning and technology-enhanced learning, including VLE’s, wikis, blogs, podcasting, multi-user virtual worlds, mobile learning, social networking and mashups

Anna's strengths lie in developing, facilitating and evaluating learning in the fields of e-learning, management and team work. She has extensive experience providing training design, delivery and consultancy, most recently for Reuters, BAE Systems, the Open University and 'Working for a Charity'.

She has a particular interest and is highly experienced in the fields of technology-enhanced learning working as trainer, consultant and author covering everything from wikis to social networking and podcasting.

Anna has worked extensively with the Open University as a consultant, teaching fellow and technical author on projects on e-mentoring, various courses in Technology & Health and Social Care, including writing course materials and teaching guidance.

A prolific writer Anna has recently produced presentations and papers on New Opportunities to Create Immersive, Collaborative Virtual learning Environments, Juggling with Jelly - Facilitating a Group Tutorial in a Multi-user Virtual Environment, the Management Challenge Online and Navigating the Technology Landscape - Everyday Opportunities to Enrich Learning.

Anna has been published on a variety of topics and her output ranges from academic papers to workbooks, seminars and workshops. She is a committee member for the International Conference on e-Learning in the Workplace at Columbia University in New York in June, where she will be presenting her latest paper.