Paul Bacsich
Chief Executive Officer @Dualversity
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Executive Officer @Dualversity
GB
Dualversity brings together the activities of a number of learning technology consultants who have worked together via various entities in the last few years – augmented by a number of carefully chosen associates drawn from our extensive collaborative network built up for EU, UNESCO, and many national agencies such as JISC, over many years. This allows us to offer a wide range of expertise and significant parallel processing for large fast-moving projects.A particular speciality is content specification and development. Dualversity maintains active capability in Canvas, Brightspace and Moodle (hosted and MoodleCloud).Dualversity members are also active in a number of start-ups. Most of the online courses for the \"Summer MOOCs\" programme from the University of West Indies Open Campus were sourced from Dualversity members or associates and all courses were finally edited by the team,
EDUCATION
University of Oxford
post-doctoral, Mathematical Logic
University of Cambridge
MA, Mathematics
University of Bristol
PhD, Mathematical Logic
Glasgow Academy
Scottish Highers, A levels and S levels in Mathemtics, Physics, and Chemistry, Mathematics
UCLA
Postgraduate study, Mathematical Logic
SKILLS
ABOUT PAUL BACSICH
Paul Bacsich, MA, PhD, is Chief Executive Officer of Dualversity. His current main topics are evaluation of projects in digital higher education, online/virtual schools, cost reduction in HE via digital and AI use, and how AI is changing assessment practice.He consults for university, school, government, international (e.g. EU, OECD, UNESCO), commercial and venture clients in most aspects of online learning (e-learning): including VLE/LMS selection, market/competitor/pricing research, change management, business models, strategy development and funding/policy issues. In 2018-19 he led the team which developed he innovative online course Teaching Teachers to Teach Online He also works on accreditation, quality, retention, cost-benefits, time, open resources, 21st century skills, competences etc relevant to multeversity and in \"dual system\" providers (HE/FE or FE/schools).He has led many EU projects and studies including VISCED, POERUP, SharedOER and ADOERUP. His international work in recent years has covered Ireland, Sweden and France, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Japan and Hong Kong. In 2012 he was Visiting Canterbury Fellow in New Zealand. In August 2013 he co-led a workshop in Brazil for the leaders of private providers of HE. In 2014 he carried out global market research in e-learning for a Canadian university. In 2015-16 he led the external review of e-learning at Uppsala University, a prestigious university in Sweden, and advised the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Ireland on infrastructure issues for universities. In 20••••19 he made visits to several countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean.After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he did his PhD at UCLA and the University of Bristol, then was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Wolfson College before joining the Open University and while there helping to found the Knowledge Media Institute. He later became Professor of Telematics at Sheffield Hallam University before taking up full-time consultancy. His former academic links were as Professor of Practice at the University of West Indies Open Campus and Visiting Professor at the University of Derby Online. He also has been Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury New Zealand, Visiting Professor at Middlesex University Global Campus and a Visiting Fellow at both Deakin University and the National Institute for Multimedia Education in Japan.
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