Cristina is Manager of the Centre for Online and Distance Education. Her background is in Intercultural, Linguistic and Community Mediation.
Person
Professor Alan Tait
Emeritus Professor of Distance Education and Development, Open °®ÆＧ
Alan Tait is Emeritus Professor of Distance Education and Development at the Open °®ÆＧ UK. From 2013-2015 Alan was Director of International Development and Teacher Education, and before that was Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic) at the Open °®ÆＧ UK 2007-2012, and from 2004-2007 Dean of the Faculty of Education and Language Studies.
Alan was Editor of the European Journal of Distance and E Learning (EURODL) 2005-2013, was from 1989-1998 Editor of Open Learning, was President of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) from 2007-2010, and Co-Director of the Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning 1988-2013.
Alan has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Moscow State °®ÆＧ for Economics, Statistics and Informatics (2012) and the State °®ÆＧ of New York (2023). He was also appointed Visiting Senior Online Consultant at the Open °®ÆＧ of China in 2013. Alan is founding Emeritus Editor of the , produced from the Commonwealth of Learning; Visiting Professor, Amity °®ÆＧ, India; Distinguished Visiting Professor Open °®ÆＧ of Hong Kong; Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at the °®ÆＧ of London; Visiting Professor at Aalborg °®ÆＧ, Denmark 2012-2016; and transformation advisor for the Commonwealth of Learning at Botswana Open °®ÆＧ 2011-2016.
Publications can be found on . Alan has given keynote lectures in a range of places, most notably in 2014 the Asa Briggs Commemoration lecture at the Commonwealth of Learning Pan-Commonwealth Forum, Abuja, Nigeria.
