Our keys to success
- clarify what you really want to achieve
- take an organisation-wide approach
- gain buy-in and understanding from the people who need to be involved
- build capability
- review processes to match your new goals
- keep your goals in mind and monitor progress against them.
We are a group of experts in working with people, process and technology
We believe that successful moves to technology-enhanced learning solutions is totally dependent on people. Selecting and implementing the right tools is difficult enough but the real challenge is changing people and how they work together. Our job is to work with you to understand your objectives, and with your people to achieve them.
We are based in Wellington but regularly work on projects New Zealand wide.
Terry Neal - Director
Terry has extensive experience in enhancing teaching and learning using technology. She has led national projects, and worked with many organisations to understand and realise their vision for blended learning.
Terry's key strengths are taking an organisation or sector wide approach, taking time to clarify purpose, living with complexity and uncertainty while coming up with practical solutions that work, working effectively with people to assess and build their capability, and continually monitoring progress against agreed goals.
More than Terry
Terry has an extensive network of colleagues across New Zealand, who have worked with her on previous projects, before and after Blended Solutions came into being. By tapping into this network, Blended Solutions can pull together the right team for your project. We can understand your needs and then find the right mix of skills and experience to meet them.
Andrea Barr
Andrea works with organisations to support them achieve outcomes in projects that involve listening to people, developing good processes and helping them think through change brought about by technology. Currently, Andrea provides consultancy services through Synergetic Consultancy in the areas of project management, learning and development, resource development, and thinking through and planning change.
Inova Ltd: John Delany and Lyn Williams
John and Lyn are established tertiary educators with experience in learning design, flexible learning, teacher education and academic professional development. Go to Inova Ltd for more information.
Marie-Claire Andrews
Marie-Claire is experienced in business development, sales, brand awareness, facilitation, business planning and strategic networking. She has excellent, far reaching networks across New Zealand and is immediate past chair of Unlimited Potential, the country's largest ICT network. As business development manager for the Wellington regional economic development agency, assisting over 200 companies in the region to grow their businesses was a career highlight. Others include generating sales significantly in excess of targets for an international ICT company, and being a key part of its sales team at CeBIT 2006 (the worlds premier ICT Trade Fair), as well as line management roles within government. Marie-Claire is currently Vice President of Virtual Expos NZ Ltd (providing virtual tradeshow and conference environments), part time General Manager of Angel HQ (Wellington's angel investment club) and undertakes consulting projects in between renovating a 60ft fishing trawler that she lives on with her partner.
Paul Left
Paul has many years of experience as a professional developer in tertiary education and in a wide range of learning technology and learning design projects.
Steve Lowe
Steve is a lifelong learner in the areas of constructionism, connectivism, and more recently in applications of machine learning in education. He is an active member of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society. Current projects include Virtual Incubator, the working title of a project that profiles students according to their behaviour in a walled garden connectivist environment. Balancing this is his continuing work with lightweight methods for the rapid development of eLearning materials. He works as a freelance technical writer, overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Timaru.