Judy Roberts & Associates / Associés Inc. - Learner's Guide

JUDITH M. (JUDY) ROBERTS, M.A., is President of Judy Roberts & Associates / Associés Inc. (RAA). A member of the Advisory Network of Experts, Office of Learning Technologies, Human Resources Development Canada, Judy has over 25 years' experience in the design, management and evaluation of national and international applications of learning technologies, including distance and open learning and telemedicine. Before launching RAA in 1990, she was senior founding staff member of networks in Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario. Judy is editor of the Lifelong Learning on the Information Highway/ L'apprentissage à vie sur l'inforoute Series and has served at the Board and committee levels of the Canadian Association for Distance Education. Fluently bilingual in French and English, her RAA clients include the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, The Brewers Association of Canada, and The World Bank.

JANE E. BRINDLEY has 20 years' experience as a clinician, educator, researcher, and administrator in open and distance learning. She is a chartered psychologist who specializes in the development, delivery, and evaluation of support services for adult learners studying through alternate delivery modes. Jane has held a variety of positions in post-secondary settings including Director of Student Services at Athabasca University in Athabasca, Alberta and Coordinator of Planning, Development and Review at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario. She has also worked as a researcher, consultant, and trainer in distance education settings in Canada, England, New Zealand, Scandinavia, and South and Central American. Currently, Jane is Special Consultant to The Centre for Innovation in Learning at Contact North/Contact Nord, in Sudbury Ontario, and is completing doctoral studies in Clinical Psychology through the University of Ottawa.

BARBARA SPRONK has worked in distance education for over twenty years, most of that time at Athabasca University in Alberta, where she has held a variety of posts that included writing course content for 13 courses, and tutoring learners by telephone, audioconference and computer conferencing. She has worked as a researcher and consultant in educational settings ranging from First Nations communities in Canada to villages in northeast Thailand, primary health care programs in the Philippines and universities in Bangladesh and the Caribbean. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Alberta in Canada and is Past-President of the Canadian Association for Distance Education. At present, she is enjoying the challenges of her new position as Executive Director of the International Extension College in Cambridge, England, a charitable organization specialising in training and consultancies in distance education for development.

Complete the order form for the Learner's Guide book, edited by Judy Roberts.

You may also be interested in the Lifelong Learning on the Information Highway Series, or the Workbooks for Workshop Facilitators.