Dai's CV

Research interests The principal themes which he has been engaged in during the period covered by this review are • Robots and digital manipulatives for children: building on the work of Papert and Resnick, Grey Walter, Braitenberg, and Fröebel he investigated how new technologies could be used to scaffold children’s reflection. Interpretation of filmed play identified a pattern of fascination, problem solving and reflection, and the degree of facilitation required identified. • Participative design and identification of user needs. In the eTui project he built on the work of Alison Druin and Fred Martin and worked with children to define the appearance of the a robotic toy, designing and carrying out a number of innovative design activities. He continued this theme with adults in work on designing a QTI editor within the context of the SCOPE project. In recent work he has identified innovative methodologies for working with teachers using the IMS Learning Design (IMS LD) specification. • The implications of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) for Education. He has explored this theme in the context of the SIGOSSEE and Bazaar projects, and published three papers and a report  on Organisational Issues, which focuses on how FLOSS can play a role in avoiding lock in, the relationship with open content, and the significance of service based architectures and frameworks. • Publishing and sharing online educational resources and “Learning Objects”. I coordinated the implementation of an online continuing education service for medical specialists, available at http://www.ghcontinuada.com/, examining the potential of the specifications SCORM, OUNL EML and IMS LD. He then moved on to examine the potential of repositories which enable a more open and social sharing of educational resources and activities. Building on the work of Griff Richards in Canada He identified the requirements for IMS LD and repositories, and worked on the integration of repositories with users workflows. •	Representing learning activities. In his work with robotics and children he used the ACOT Unit of Practice framework for describing learning activities in a standard way. This work led to engagement with OUNL EML, and later IMS LD. Through his work coordinating the UNFOLD project he worked closely with the team in OUNL which developed these specifications, and the large body of research which UNFOLD generated is described in the final publication, which he co-edited, and at http://www.unfold-project.net/general_resources_folder/papers/ •	Tooling for IMS LD. He coordinated the development of Java libraries for handling IMS LD, and through this became involved with the Valkenburg Group which was developing infrastructure for IMS LD. He wrote a chapter on IMS LD Tools in the Valkenburg book, published by Springer which provides an authoritative overview of work in this area. This research line is continuing with current work on an LD aware repository, and IMS LD templates and tools.

Esteem indicators David Griffiths was guest editor of the IJLT Special Issue based on the TENCompetence workshop in Manchester, January 2007. He is regularly asked to be a member of a number of Scientific Committees and to act as a reviewer for journals, for example: ICALT 2006: 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies. Theme: Advanced Technologies for Life-Long Learning IADIS 2006 International Workshop on Learning Networks for Lifelong Competence Development, Sofia, TENCompetence 2006, ADALE International Workshop on Adaptive Learning and Learning Design, at Adaptive Hypermedia 2006 IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities 2006 JIME Journal of Interactive Media in Education IJCEELLL International Journal Of Continuing Engineering Education And Life Long Learning. SELF Project Learning Standards Expert Group

David Griffiths is a regular speaker at conferences. He was an invited keynote speaker at EADL 2007, SPEDECE 2007, IMS Summit 2006, and seminars held by CEESI and Design4Learning. He ran a symposium on the future of the VLE at Onlie Educa 2006, and a one on IMS Learning Design at ALT-C 2007, and was an invited participant in a panel at LORNET 2006 in Vancouver. Among the recent conferences and events at which he has delivered papers are LAMS 2007, the TENCompetence Winter School 2007, ePortfolio 2007, the TENCompetence Workshop 2006 in Sofia, LORNET 2006, eContentPlus 2006, SPEDECE 2006. He has also contributed four chapters to edited books since 2004, with two more at the press.

Successes

David Griffiths has been involved in the definition and planning of a large number of research proposals, and principal author of three of these, all of which were successful. These were UNFOLD (IST programme) OpenDock (Leonardo), and SCOPE (eContent) which attracted a combined funding of 1•6 million € from the European commission. He has also been heavily involved in the preparation of a number of other successful proposals, the largest of which has attracted funding of 8•8 million €. He has coordinated four European projects with a combined funding of 1•6 million €. These projects involved between five and eight partner institutions, and have achieved excellent results. Of the three completed projects which he coordinated, the SCOPE project was assessed as “excellent”, the SpeedFX project won the IST Prize, while the recent final review of the UNFOLD project stated that “The project has globally achieved all its objectives, and some beyond expectations” with “very good use of resources” and “good quality reporting”. He is also a board member of the TENCompetence Integrated Project, with funding of 8.8 million € and thirteen partners.

David Griffiths can work in five languages, English, Welsh, Spanish, Catalan and French, and has native or near-native writing skills in all except French. As a result of spending many years working in Europe he has a very wide network of collaborators and contacts in the area of eLearning interoperability specifications, covering most of the countries in Europe, Australia, Canada and USA.