Biographies

Dr Nicki Page

Dr Nicki Page manages the eLearning & Web Support Unit at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, and has been directly involved in distance and online learning in the tertiary sector for many years. Her professional interests range from ICT and information literacy to eLearning infrastructure and digital repositories. Nicki is a member of the Distance Education Association of New Zealand [DEANZ], having held past roles of Vice-President, website manager (for four years), and guest editor of the Journal of Distance Learning (2003/2004). Other eLearning forums she is actively involved with include ITPNZ, TANZ and the Canterbury Tertiary Alliance. Nicki was selected as a Flexible Learning Leader in New Zealand for 2004-2005.

Richard Wyles

Richard Wyles is an Internet technology specialist who has led enterprise scale initiatives over the past eight years. Richard has played an integral role in managing the successful NZOSVLE projects with open source technologies now a significant part of New Zealand's eLearning landscape.

Kristian Thornley

Kristian Thornley is an enterprise application developer in CPIT's eLearning Web Support Unit, with experience in a variety of open source systems. Prior to employment at CPIT Kris was enlisted as an Intelligence Analyst/Collator in the British Army where he developed his appreciation for accurate timely information. This appreciation along with formal IS training underpins his approach to application development. Expertise includes Moodle and Drupal development, Blackboard administration/integration and various enterprise web technologies including SOAP, XML, XSLT.

Dr Nigel Stanger

Dr Nigel Stanger is a lecturer in the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, where he has taught in the areas of systems analysis and database systems since 1989. He was awarded a PhD degree in 2000 in the area of data model translation, and has active research interests in digital institutional repositories, distributed and web database systems, XML technologies, spam filtering, physical database design and database performance. He was the project lead and programmer for the University of Otago School of Business repository pilot, New Zealand 's first publicly available institutional repository (Te Tumu Eprints Repository).

Dr Graham McGregor

Dr Graham McGregor is an experienced tertiary academic and manager, who has worked in a variety of disciplinary contexts and roles. In New Zealand , he has held senior positions in both the polytechnic and university sectors, and worked as an independent consultant. These positions have included responsibility for research planning, development and management across a wide range of portfolios. As an academic, he largely published books and articles in the field of sociolinguistics. He has also joint authored work on ICT pedagogy and practice and has written reports for several New Zealand government agencies. His current role is to stimulate and coordinate research development activities across New Zealand 's business and academic communities. He was instrumental in launching the University of Otago School of Business repository pilot (Te Tumu Eprints Repository), New Zealand 's first publicly available institutional repository.

Steve Knight

Steve Knight, Manager Innovation Centre & Programme Architect National Digital Heritage Archive, Digital Innovation Services, National Library of New Zealand.

John Rankin

John Rankin's profile (PDF: 98Kb) can be downloaded from the Affinity Limited website.