Technology Enhanced Learning Manager
Roles and Responsibilities
My role in the University of Edinburgh Business School is to lead the TEL Team.
The team bring many decades of expertise, working with technology to enhance the learning and teaching experience of students and staff, and assist the school to innovate towards achieving its goal of being “a world-class Business School within a world-class University”.
To that end I am also responsible for helping develop and implement the School's TEL Strategy and ensuring we provide and maintain high quality courses and programmes for our students.
I am also:
- TEL Representative on the UEBS UG & PG Boards of Studies
- TEL Representative on the CAHSS Education Committee
- Convenor of CAHSS TEL group
Background
MSc Information Technology and Intelligent Systems (University of Aberdeen, 2000)
MA (Hons) Mental Philosophy (University of Aberdeen, 1997)
e-Assessment Scotland Award for innovation 2010
I joined the University of Edinburgh Business School as Manager of the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Team in January 2023. Prior to joining the Business School I worked as a Learning Technologist in the School of Social and Political Science (also at University of Edinburgh).
During the 2010’s, I worked as an Education Development Adviser. Latterly for the University of Leicester’s Leicester Learning Institute (2017-19), where my role was to prepare all disciplines across the university for the move to digital assessment. Prior to that, I worked for the Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Aberdeen (2011-2017), also as an Education Development Adviser. In this role I developed a short programme (Principles of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education) that supported Graduate Teaching Assistants and Early Career Academics in the development of their Learning and Teaching theory, skills and experience and supported their attainment of HEA Fellowship and Associate Fellowship. During this time I also co-developed the MEd in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and was course coordinator for Contemporary Issues in Higher Education and co-taught on Components of the Learning Environment and eLearning in Higher Education. I was responsible moving all of these courses online for blended delivery.
At the beginning of the century, prior to a brief period with the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen (2009-2011) where I was both the school Educational Technology Adviser and a PhD student investigating the role of computer games and play in learning, I was a Learning Technology Support Officer with the Information Services Directorate (2000-2009). During this time I developed a number of bespoke software solutions to address specific problems academics faced supporting learning and teaching, where there were no off the shelf solutions. Many of my publications, below, resulted from this work.
Publications
BOOK CHAPTERS
Cornelius, S. and Marston, P. (2011) Work-based simulations using text messaging and the role of the virtual context. In Pachler, N., Pimmer, C. and Seipold, J. (eds) Work-Based Mobile Learning: Concepts and Cases. Oxford: Peter Lang
JOURNAL PAPERS
Patel, A. J. F., Van Der Enden, M., Deepwell, F., Cox, B. Z., Clarke, P., Marston, P. and Rooney, S. (2018) The DIP-approach: Student-staff partnerships as a vital tool for Learning Developers and Educators to develop academic [and digital] literacies. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
McArdle, K., Al Bishawi, R. Marston, P. and Shanks, R. (2015) Lifelong learning professionals need to ensure disadvantaged groups have access to e-learning: "reflexivity" is required International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning 8(1) p24
Marston, P. (2011) Emotion, ambiguity and telling stories: The role of neuroscience in using computer games for learning The Psychology of Education Review. 35(1) pp
Marston, P. and Cornelius, S. (2010) Further development of the context categories of a mobile learning framework. Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology. HHL’09 conference proceedings.
Gemmell, A., Marston, P. and Finlayson, I. (2010) First steps towards an interactive real-time hazard management simulation. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 34(1), pp.39-51.
Cornelius, S. and Marston, P. (2009) Towards an understanding of the virtual context in mobile learning. ALT- J, Research in Learning Technology 17, no. 3: 161-172.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Cornelius, S., Gemmell, A. and Marston, P. (2008) Real-time simulation on the move: the learner context. Extended Abstract. Proceedings of EducaOnline 08, Berlin: Online Educa.
Jeffels, P. and Marston, P. (2003) Accessibility of Online Learning Materials. SCROLLA Invited Paper 2003
Edwards I.E., Miller, H., Thomson, K.J., Calder C.J. and Marston, P.G. (2003) Virtual Estate Visit in Scotland. 14th International Farm Management Congress. August 2003. Perth, Australia.
Bowman, A., Calder C.J. and Marston, P.G. (2002) Development and Implimentation of a Virtual Practical for Bio-Sciences. Society for Experimental Biology annual conference. April 2002. University of Wales, Swansea.
ARTICLES AND CASE STUDIES
Cornelius, S., P. Marston, A. Gemmell (2011) SMS text messaging for real-time simulations in Higher Education In J. Traxler and J. Wishart (eds) Making mobile learning work: case studies of practice. Bristol, UK: HEA-ESCalate
Perkins, J., Marston, P. and Preston, S. (2008) Preparing to Teach – Don’t Forget The Student Response System. HEA Subject Centre for Bioscience Bulletin Spring 2008.
Marston, P. (2007) Study Tips Video Gallery in Asensio, M. and Cuttle, M. (eds). 6 Case Studies of Using Video in Learning and Teaching. VideoActive (last downloaded 04/09/09)
Abrams, N. and Marston, P. (2007) Audio-Visual ‘Gobbets’ for Exam Purposes. HEA Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology case study (last downloaded 04/09/09)
Bowman, A., Calder C.J. and Marston, P.G. (2006) Virtual Practicals. HEA Subject Centre for Bioscience Bulletin Autumn 2006.
Calder, C.J. and Marston, P. (2002) V-LAB: Virtual Laboratory and Fieldtrip Environments. In Sharp, H., Chalk, P., LePeuple, J., and Rosbottom, J. (Eds) People and Computers XVI - Memorable yet invisible. Proceedings of HCI2002. VolII. 107-110.