Alistair McNaught

Senior Advisor

Alistair taught Geography for 20 years gaining experience in both Secondary and FE sectors. This experience was later used as cross curricular elearning advisor in a beacon sixth form college before joining the Ferl team at Becta where he was involved in the creation and roll out of two national ILT development programmes as well as supporting events and activities for many Regional Support Centres. From Becta, he joined the JISC TechDis service where he continues to work closely with Regional Support Centres as well as a wide range of other agencies and organisations supporting disabled learners.

Alistair has had long personal involvement with disability issues through voluntary activities which have ranged from family link fostering to a disabled rambling group. He has contributed to a number of publications including A level geography text books, eLearning publications and articles for journals and periodicals.

Alistair is also responsible for:

• Supporting the learning and skills sector – FE, adult community learning, work based learning, offender learning. This includes liaison with many different projects and organisations. These have included:

o NIACE e-guides programme
o Subject learning coaches
o Professional development advisor programme
o MoleNet
o Becta Inclusion Group
o JISC e-books for FE technical advisory group
o JISC content design and delivery
o Right to Read Alliance
o University of Nottingham Xerte Online Toolkit
o RSC NE Scotland AccessApps project.

• Liaison with RSC accessibility and inclusion specialists.
• Inclusive eLearning tools and resources
• Using technology for reasonable adjustments in teaching and learning
• Inclusive mobile learning
• Good practice guidelines for inclusive library services
• Liaison with the Publishers Association and Publishers Licensing Society on access to alternative formats.
• Developing the Senior Manager Briefings for FE
• Developing the Online Accessibility Self Assessment service

Related Links

• MoleNet project – www.molenet.org.uk
• Xerte Online Tookits – background information – www.techdis.ac.uk/getxerte
• Upwardly Mobile - Inclusive mobile learning – www.techdis.ac.uk/upwardlymobile
• Reasonable adjustment guidance – www.techdis.ac.uk/getcreation
• Senior manager briefings - www.techdis.ac.uk/getbriefings
• Online accessibility self assessments – www.techdis.ac.uk/getevaluated
• Inclusive Library guides – www.techdis.ac.uk/getlibraryguides

Contact Alistair

Alistair McNaught
Senior Advisor For Further Education

JISC TechDis
c/o The Higher Education Academy
York Science Park
YORK
YO10 5BR

E-mail: Alistair@techdis.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 717580
Mobile: +44 (0)7870 567659
Skype: alistair_techdis

Personal blog: http://wordcurious.blogspot.com