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debbie.holley@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• FCILT
• MCIPS
• FHEA
• FRSA

Courses

• Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning
• MA Learning & Teaching
• BA Primary Education

Outline of Career

Debbie Holley's first degree was Politics. She originally joined Higher Education from a transport industry background - she is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (FCILT), and chairs a national committee.

She is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) and spent a number of years lecturing at undergraduate, postgraduate and on professional courses for the transport industry. She taught short courses abroad for Bahrain Petroleum both face-to-face and online, before completing a MSc in Training.

Debbie then moved into the Learning and Teaching specialism, and completed her doctorate at London Knowledge Lab (University of London) exploring student barriers to online learning. Currently Debbie is a Reader in the Department of Education; co-convenes the Education, Technology & Computing Research Cluster and is a University Teaching Fellow.

Research Interests

Debbie uses a range of innovative technologies to engage her students both inside and outside the classroom. Her main focus is on mobile learning, where she is developing a framework for embedding mobile and handheld technologies for students who study 'at a distance', whether online learners or students who are away from campus on professional placements. The findings of a recent ESCalate funded mobile technology project are available on their website.

Her wider research interests include second life, where she worked with industry partner Clipper Logistics to develop a '3D' warehouse as a health and safety training tool; digital literacies for students; and she is a 'Critical Friend' to the JISC funded Anytime Learning Literacies Environment (ALLE) project.

Debbie is an experienced biographic narrative researcher and has published widely on the student experience.
You can follow Debbie on twitter at @debbieholley1.

Selected Publications

Holley, D. (2012) Student attitudes to socially responsible business: a case study of mine workers in Chile, Social Responsibility Journal, 8(2), 174-185

Holley, D. & Boyle, T. (2012) Empowering teachers to author multimedia learning resources that support students' critical thinking. EURODL, European Journal of Open and Distance Learning, Published 21.02.2012. Available at: www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2012/Holley_Boyle.pdf

Holley, D. and Johnson, T. (2012) Health and Safety Training in 3D, Logistics and Transport Focus. August pp. 46-48

Greaves, L., Bradley, C. and Holley, D. (2012) Learning journeys: exploring approaches to learner digital literacy acquisition ELiSS special edition on Digital Literacy

Holley, D. and Oliver, M. (2011). Negotiating the digital divide: narratives from the have and the have-nots. Ch 8 pp. 101-113 in Digital Difference: Perspectives on Online Learning Sense, Land, R. and Bayne, S. (eds) Sense Publishers Rotterdam, Vol 50 of Peters, MA Educational Futures
Rethinking Theory and Practice Series

Bradley, C. & Holley, D. (2011) Empirical Research into students' mobile phones and their use for learning, International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 3(4), 38-53. October-December

Holley, D. and Oliver, M. (2010). Student engagement and blended learning: portraits of risk, Computers & Education, 54, pp. 693-700, Elsevier Publishing, DOI information: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.08.035, ISSN: 0360-1315

Sinfield, S. Holley, D. and Burns, T. (2009). A journey into silence: students, stakeholders and the impact of a strategic Governmental Policy Document in the UK, Social Responsibility Journal, 5(4), pp. 566-574, ISSN: 1747-111

Holley, D. and Oliver, M. (2009). A private revolution ? How technology is enabling students to take their work home, Journal of Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences (ELISS) Journal, 1(3),
Available at: www.eliss.org.uk