IET, The Open University, United Kingdom

Paul Lefrere, PhD is Senior Lecturer at the UK Open University's Institute of Educational Technology) and Professor of eLearning at the University of Tampere, Finland (Hypermedia Lab; Vocational Learning and e-skills Centre). From 2003-2005, he was on leave of absence as Microsoft?s Executive Director for eLearning, in which role he served on various European and national advisory groups concerned with professional learning and related topics, and also on Europe?s e-learning Industry Group, eLIG. Until 2003 he was Policy Adviser at the Open University, where he was also Academic Director of a number of international multi-university projects concerned with e-skills and knowledge management.