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Phil Barker
Partner at CETIS LLP
Phil Barker is a Partner at CETIS LLP, a cooperative consultancy for innovation in educational technology.14 He is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has extensive experience in the field of learning technology, particularly in higher education.1
Professional Background
Phil has been working in supporting the use of learning technology at universities since 1994 and has been associated with CETIS in some capacity since 2002.2 His main areas of expertise include:
- Semantic approaches to resource description
- Learning resource management
- Open education
- Evaluation of technology to enhance learning in engineering and physical sciences1
Current Roles
In addition to being a Partner at CETIS LLP, Phil is also:
- Founder and Director of PJJK Limited, his own educational technology consultancy3
- Chair of the DCMI LRMI task group
- Contributor to IEEE Standards work on Learning Metadata and Competencies3
Previous Experience
Phil's career history includes:
- Research Fellow at Heriot-Watt University (1996-2017)
- Learning Technology Advisor at CETIS (2002-2015)
- CTI Physics Coordinator at University of Surrey (1994-1997)
- Researcher at CSIC (1993-1994)
- Research Associate at University of Bristol (1990-1993)1
Education
- PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol (1987-1990)
- BSc in Physics from the University of Bristol (1984-1987)1
Areas of Interest
Phil is particularly interested in improving learning and teaching through technology, with a focus on:
- Supporting the discovery and selection of appropriate resources
- Semantic web technologies
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Metadata standards (e.g., LRMI, schema.org, Dublin Core, IEEE LOM)13
Throughout his career, Phil has contributed to various projects and initiatives in educational technology, including work on metadata standards, vocabulary development for linked data, and support for open education resources.3
