Professor Grainne Conole at Institute of Learning Innovation University of Leicester

Gráinne Conole is an Irish-born

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and

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er, based in

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. She was Professor of Learning Innovation and Director of the Institute of Learning Innovation, University of Leicester. Prior to this, she was Professor of eLearning at the Institute of Educational Technology in the UK's

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. Previously she had a chair in education at the

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and was also previously director of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the

University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a public university, public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Br ...

. Professor Conole was named an EDEN Fellow in 2013 and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy and ASCILITE Fellow Award in 2012. Born in

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, Conole later moved to London. She has two children.

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Gráinne Conole biography on the web site of the Association for Learning Technology's 2003 conference
Irish expatriate academics Academics of the University of Southampton Academics of the Open University 1964 births Living people Academics of the University of Leicester Place of birth missing (living people) {{Ireland-academic-bio-stub

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