Brenda Justine Mallinson
http://www.is.ru.ac.za

South Africa Institute for Distance Education; and Rhodes University
South Africa

Brenda Mallinson is a Learning Technologies consultant, having been Programme Specialist Learning Technologies at the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) in Johannesburg until December 2014. Having worked in higher education for over 25 years, and with the Moodle OSS VLE for 11 years, Brenda currently works on a number of Educational Technology and OER Africa projects at higher education institutions across sub-Saharan Africa, encompassing research, strategy, theory, and practice in the area of Learning Technologies and Open Educational Resources.

Brenda is also non-resident Research Associate in the Department of Information Systems, Rhodes University in South Africa, where she established and led a research group in Advanced Learning Technologies, as well as designing and implementing a post-graduate coursework module in this area for Information Systems and Computer Science honours students, both at Rhodes and University of Fort Hare.

Greig Emil Krull
South African Institute for Distance Education
South Africa

Education and Information Systems Specialist