Matthew Fox

"I like to make connections. Joining the dots to come up with pragmatic solutions."

"I’ve taken that approach in my various roles, whether it's running an e-learning operation in Higher Education, heading up Learning Solutions at Epic, or learning consultancy at Futuremedia.

My journey in the learning business started with teaching languages in Sri Lanka and then in Higher Education. It was there that I started to see the potential of technology to transform how we learn.

For my PhD, I researched the use of computers in language learning, developing the UK’s first online language course. It showed me how technology can advance learning. And how rarely it works well, when completely divorced from human interaction.

Kineo brings together  a superb team of creative and practical professionals who believe learning can make a big difference to individuals and organisations. I’m proud to be part of the team."

Want to know more about Matt, take a look at his favourite websites below.

The Journal of Educational Technology and Science
http://www.ifets.info/others/

This one takes me back to my research days. There’s always a high level of academic research on the site, and interesting angles on how technology is being used effectively, or not so effectively to help learning.

The Way Back Machine
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

I still can’t quite decide whether this is great or completely useless. But if you want to trawl back through the history of the web it’s good fun. Check out the news.bbc.co.uk archive for those ‘did that really happen then’ moments.

LiNE Zine 
http://www.linezine.com/index.htm

I love this online magazine – learning in the new economy. Smart articles – practical and interesting themes. Great for a rainy day browse or to look up something specific.

43 Things
http://www.43things.com/

This the quirky end of online communities. You can add things you would like to do in life or add your name and comments to things others are doing and be part of their club. It’s totally banal on one level – a kind of universal big brother, self-absorbed in them minutiae of life, and yet on another level it powerfully shows how the internet connects people at so many different levels.