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á Emeritus Professor, and
previously (1997-2005) Professor of Learner Managed Learning in the School of
Lifelong Learning and Education at Middlesex University (MU),London, England
where he was also Academic Director of the Doctorate in Professional Studies
programme.
á Convenor of Capability
Associates, a network of consultants specialising in work-based development,
online learning, development of personal and corporate capability and higher
education curriculum innovation.
á Head of Learning for the UK
University for Industry online learning project, 1998 - 2000 (www.ufi.com)
á Educational adviser to
UfI/learndirect for its online Learning-through-Work programme
(www.learndirect-ltw.co.uk).
á National Director of the Royal
Society of Art's Higher Education for Capability project, 1988 - 1998.
á Main professional interests
are online learning, learner managed learning, work-based learning, life-long
learning.
á Recent books:
Capability
and Quality in Higher Education, Kogan Page, 1998 (with Mantz Yorke)
Teaching
and Learning Online, Kogan Page, 2001 - and
Competence
in the Learning Society, Peter Lang 2001 (with John Raven).
á Past Chair of International Guiding
Committee of the World Education Fellowship (WEF).
External Examining at Doctoral level
á 2000 to 2005, Chair of
Assessment Panels for all stages of the DProf at Middlesex University, including the Metanoia Institute and
Forum for the Future (in excess of 50 awards overall confirmed).
á Chair of 2 PhD assessments at
Middlesex University (including one by published works)
á Internal assessor for 2 PhDs at
Middlesex University.
á External examiner for 3
different candidates in Australia, Queensland U (90), Southern Cross U (96),
Monash U (04).
Education and qualifications
á DPhil, University of Sussex,
awarded 1990.
á PGCE, Institute of Education,
University of London, 1961
á BSc(Econ) Upper Second, London
School of Economics, 1960
á GCE O Levels 1954 and A Levels
1957, Barrow Grammar School for Boys.
Previous full time positions
á 1988 - 1997, national director
of the Royal Society of Arts' Higher Education for Capability project, based in
the University of Leeds 1991-1997, and at RSA headquarters in London 1988 -
1991).
á 1978 - 1988, Head of the
School for Independent Study at North East London Polytechnic.
á 1974 - 1978, Principal
Lecturer, School for Independent Study at North East London Polytechnic.
á 1969 - 1974, Lecturer - senior
lecturer in teacher training at Barking Regional College of Technology (NELP
after 1972).
á 1967 (Jan) - 1969, Head of
Economics, Buckhurst Hill County High School, Essex.
á 1961 - 1966 (Dec), teacher,
Harold Hill Grammar School, Essex.
Major Learner Managed Learning Projects
Learning Power project, Leeds TEC, U of Leeds and
Leeds Metropolitan University (1996 - 1998)
Designed and led the setting up of the innovative
Learning Power Project in Leeds, a work-based learning partnership brokered by
the Leeds TEC between locals companies, SMEs and HEIs to enable people at work
to develop programmes of learning based on work-based projects, leading to full
degrees or diplomas. The Pilot programme also embraced the Modern Apprenticeship
and was one of the first to use online tutorial systems to link the campus with
the work-place.
The London Docklands Brainpower Consortium (1990 -
1992)
Initiated and convened The London Docklands Brainpower
Consortium as part of the RSA's Higher Education for Capability project. Its
aims were to improve working links between education and industry and to
increase access of local people into education and training in the area covered
by the London Docklands Development Corporation. Its educational approach was
one of learner managed learning, using three-way learning contracts negotiated
by the learner with an employer and a relevant educational institution.
The Consortium consisted of post-16 institutions
(including school sixth forms), major employers in the London Docklands area,
Local Education Authorities, and local employer groups. At the end of the pilot
project (and of my involvement), responsibility for the project passed to the
University of East London, with funding from the LDDC and the relevant Funding
Councils
The Higher Education for Capability (HEC) Project
(1988 - 1991 at the RSA, London, 1991 - 1997 at the University of Leeds, 1998
at Middlesex University)
As its Director I was responsible for devising and
managing its national campaign to raise awareness of the importance of using
the HE curriculum to develop high level personal transferable skills. The
campaign included the compilation of a database of innovative practice,
national conferences featuring innovations in key curriculum areas, a refereed
journal promoting examples of good practice, in-house staff development
activities for partner universities and a series of publications by Kogan Page
formulating the ideas emerging from the other activities into models others
could follow.
UfI/learndirect's Learning Through Work Programme
(LtW) (1998 - 2000)
I initiated the creation and development of UfI's
Learning Through Work programme that makes it possible for people at work to
negotiate personalised programmes of study directly related to their real-time
work circumstances leading to full awards negotiated wit participating
universities.
Major Learner Managed Learning publications
á 1992, Quality in Learning
(with Susan Weil), Kogan Page, London - a review of LML and capability
development in major subject areas in UK HE.
á 1993, Using Learning Contracts
in Higher Education 1993 (with Mike Laycock), Kogan Page, 1993 - a review of
current usage of learner negotiated learning contracts in HE.
á 1998, Capability and Quality
in Higher Education, 1998 (with Mantz York), Kogan Page in London, 1998 - a
review of effective innovation in higher education leading to the development
of key personal skills through the main-stream curriculum;
á 2001, Teaching and Learning
Online, Kogan Page in 2001, - a review of current practice and its potential
for bringing about pedagogical change;
á 2002, Competence in the
Learning Society, 2002 (with John Raven), Peter Lang, New York - a critical
review of current world-wide experience of ways of enhancing professional
capability through education and training;
á Series editor for Kogan Page's
publications on innovations in teaching e.g. use of modular programmes, use of
records of achievement, use of group-based learning.
á From 1993 to 1998, founding
editor of the journal 'Capability', with a circulation of 4000 in higher
education, focused on curriculum innovations leading to the development of high
level personal skills.
Chapters in books
1977, Stephenson, J., General Competence By
Independent Study, In Course Design And Student Learning, David Billing (Ed),
SRHE, Guildford.
1980, Stephenson, J., Independent Study at North East
London Polytechnic, in Outcomes Of Education, Burgess, T. & Adams, E.,
MacMillan, London. 18pps
1981, Stephenson, J., Student Planned Learning, in
Developing Student Autonomy In Learning, David Boud, Kogan Page, London.
1983, Stephenson, J., Higher Education: School For
Independent Study, In Adult Learning And Education, M, Tight (Ed), Croom Helm,
London.
1984, Stephenson, J., Public Examinations Or Validated
School Assessment?, In Readings In School Based Curriculum Development, M.
Skilbeck (Ed), Harper And Row, London. 10pps
1989, Stephenson, J., The Experience Of Independent
Study (A Rewrite Of First Edition, 1981); In Toward Student Autonomy In Learning
(Second Edition), D Boud, Kogan Page, London.. 16pps
1991, Stephenson, J., Education For Capability; In
Realizing Human Potential, R Winterburn, Kogan Page, London. 9pps
1993, Stephenson, J., The Student Experience Of
Independent Study; in Learner Managed Learning, Graves, N.(Ed), The World
Education Fellowship, London. 17pps.
1993, Stephenson, J., A Capability Approach to the
Development of Student Skills for the New Europe, in Student Skills for the New
Europe, Cunningham, L. (Ed), HEC, Leeds. 7
1998, Stephenson, J.,The Concept of Capability and its
importance in HE,in Stephenson, J. and Yorke, M., Capability and Quality in
Higher Education, Kogan page, London
1998, Stephenson, J, Supporting Student Autonomy in
Learning,in Stephenson, J. and Yorke, M., Capability and Quality in Higher
Education, Kogan page, London
1998, Stephenson, J, and Yorke, M., Creating the
Conditions for the Development of Capability,in Stephenson, J. and Yorke, M.,
Capability and Quality in Higher Education, Kogan page, London
2000, Stephenson,J., The student experience of
independent study,in Raven and Stephenson, Competence in the Learning Society,
New York, Lang
2001, Stephenson, J,,Learner Managed Learning: a
holistic approach to work-based learning, in Boud, D. and Solomon, N,
Work-Based Learning: A New Higher Education? OU Press, Milton Keynes.
2001, Coomey and Stephenson, Online learning: it's all
about Dialogue, Involvement, Support and Control, in Stephenson,J, Teaching and
Learning Online 2001, ISBN 2000
2003, Stephenson, J and Jackson, N.J., University for
Industry: Brokering New Opportunities for Work-based Learning, in N.J.Jackson:
Engaging and Changing Higher Education Through Brokerage, Ashgate, Guildford
Refereed Journal articles and research reports Pre
2000
1982, Stephenson, J., The Needs Of Mature Students In
Higher Education, In Association Of Colleges Implementing Dip HEs Journal, V5,
1, pp23-27.
1984, Stephenson, J., Records Of Achievement For
School Leavers - An Opportunity For Major Reform Of The Secondary School
Curriculum, In New Era, V65, 4, pp93-94.
1985, Stephenson, J., O'Reilly, D. & McKenzie, J.,
Independent Study And Professional Education, In Studies In Higher Education,
V10, 2, pp187-197.
1988, Stephenson, J., Learner Responsibility: Linking
Progressive Education To The Economy, In New Era, V69, 3, pp85-88.
1990, Stephenson, J., Capability Through Higher
Education; In The Journal Of The Higher Education Research And Development
Society Of Australasia, Sydney.
1994 – 97 Stephenson, J. many Reports, reviews
and editorials related to learner managed learning in Capability, the HEC
Refereed Journal.
1997, Stephenson, J, 1997,Beyond Competence to Learner
Autonomy, ETSA, NZ Government, Wellington
1998, Stephenson, J, Foster, E, Work-based Learning
and Universities in the UK: a review of current practice and trends, Higher
Education Research and Development, V 17, 2 pps155 -170
1999, Stephenson, J., Corporate capability:
Implications for the style and direction of work-based learning' Invited
lecture, published by University of Technology, Sydney,
1998, Stephenson J, Williams,R. Cunningham, L., The
Use of NVQs as a means to Develop Corporate capability, OCR, Coventry
Refereed Journal articles and research reports 2000
onwards
2000, Stephenson J, Williams,R., Cairns,L., Critten,P.
2000, The social Milieu of Work-based Learning. Impact of NVQ, OCR, Coventry
2001, Stephenson, J, Basiel, S, 2001, An evaluation of
online learning of supervisors in small and medium sized enterprises. An
evaluation report of the ADAPT Super Stella project, London, Middlesex
University
2001, Stephenson, J., Cairns L. 2001, Peripheral
Social Learning in the Workplace and the Development of Corporate Capability:
the Role of National Vocatiional Qualificatiions. in the Journal of Vocational
Education and Training, V53, 3, pps 443 - 466
2002, Stephenson, J, Cairns, L. 2002, Online Workplace
Learning: Ideas, Issues and a "Working Example", paper delivered at
American Educational Research Association
2004, John Stephenson and Judy Saxton, An Initial
Evaluation of Participant Experiences of UfI/learndirect's Online Learning
through Work Programme Leading to Full University Qualifications. Paper for
AERA 04.
2004, John Stephenson et al; Towards a third
generation of professional doctorates managed by the learners themselves? -
Research paper for International Conference on Professional Doctorates, Deakin
University, Nov 25-26 2004.
2005, John Stephenson and Judy Saxton, An Initial
Evaluation of Participant Experiences of UfI/learndirect's Online Learning
through Work Programme Leading to Full University Qualifications in the Journal
Industry and Higher Education, due in June 2005.
2005, Brian Sutton, presented by John Stephenson;
Return on Investment in the workplace: Demonstrating the Value of Learning
Initiatives - Paper for AERA 2005
2005, Carol Costley, John Stephenson; The Impact of
workplace Doctorates - a review of 10 case studies at Middlesex University
suggests they promote candidates personal credibility, capability and
continuing development as well as their specialist expertise - Paper for AERA
2005