Meet the team \ Dr Carmen Miles
Deputy Head and Strategic Lead for Digital Education
Carmen has extensive experience in leadership of learning and teaching enhancement at institutional level and expertise in developing and leading accessible online and blended learning experiences within higher education. As the Deputy Head of the 性吧电台 Education Academy, and Strategic Lead for Digital Education, she recently led the successful implementation of 'Learning Zone', the new VLE for 性吧电台.
In addition, Carmen is acknowledged as a sector leader in the development of innovative, high-quality online learning programmes which she has led for several UK and global universities. Carmen is a highly reputable senior leader with extensive experience leading: monitoring the student experience, overseeing interventions and strategies to enhance teaching quality for on-campus, online and blended students at an institutional level.
With established networks across the UK and Global HE digital education sector, Carmen is passionate about collaborative working, and supporting others to develop their digital teaching practices as evidenced in her Doctorate in Education, focusing on the development of teaching practices within learning communities.
"Induction is a process": Outcomes from a Learning Summit where academics and cross university staff and students co-created the induction process to support first year transition". Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2020.
"Appreciative inquiry to facilitate the integration of technology and pedagogy in higher education", University of Wolverhampton Annual Researchers Conference 2020.
Designing blended learning: What have we learnt? Applying our learning to help support our educators and students. Advance HE Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2019.
Book Chapter:
Scott. H., Miles., C. "Having your cake and eating it”: Arden University’s responses to the COVID-19 lockdowns in Smith., M. and Traxler, J. (eds) (2022). Digital Learning in Higher Education, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. (pp.131-144) available from: .
Digital Pedagogies and Practices, Technology Enhanced Learning, Research Methods, Personal and Professional Development, Sustainable Tourism, International Marketing, Public Policy and Planning.
Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 20124Outstanding Service to the Society for Information Technology and teacher Education, 2021, re-authorship of the Technology, Pedagogy and Content (TPACK) Wikipedia site.