About Me

My name is Kate Lindsay and I work in online learning in higher education.

I am an educational consultant, working with UK Universities to grow their capacity and capability in the the design of high quality online learning experiences. Previously, I worked as SVP of Academic Services at Higher Ed Partners, an Online Programme Management company (OPM), and the University College of Estate Management as Head of Digital Education, leading the transformation of fully-online programmes. Before that I was the Head of Technology Enhanced Learning / Director of Academic Services at the University of Oxford where I had responsibility for the University’s core learning and teaching platforms and managed a team of experts to support faculty and course teams to design rich blended learning experiences. I have extensive experience working on online programme development and operation, teaching, learning and assessment strategy, digital education strategy, learning design frameworks, staff and student digital fluencies, curriculum design, and  IT innovation programmes.

I sit on the advisory board of a number of educational technology start-ups and enterprises. My professional interests are AI-augmented teaching and learning, widening access and participation through the best possible uses of digital technologies, and curriculum reform for the digital age.

I am an Ambassador for Public Engagement, and have supported numerous HE projects to use digital technologies to engage with wider communities and reach under-represented groups. I am also a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and hold Senior CMALT accreditation.

I am the co-founder of the Oxford Community Collection Model, which combines online crowdsourcing and targeted engagement to co-create digital collections for research, teaching and learning – all released under Creative Commons. This model has been used around the world to make collections ranging First World War memories to Anglo-Saxon teaching resources. You can read more about it here: http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/.

I have occasionally written things that have been published and give talks at sector events.