Oliver Quinlan

Oliver Quinlan is an educator, writer[1] and is a senior research manager for Raspberry Pi Foundation(charity). His first book 'The Thinking Teacher' was published in 2014.

Oliver Quinlan
Born1984
UK
NationalityBritish
OccupationEducator, Author

Oliver gained a BA (Hons) in History at the University of Sheffield, and completed a PGCE in Primary Education at the University of Warwick.[2] He previously taught at Robin Hood School in Birmingham, UK, before becoming a lecturer in Primary Education at Plymouth University.[3] Here he led the ICT and Digital Literacy pathways for the BEd in Primary Education, as well as developing courses for Primary Computing.

He maintains a blog, in which he writes about learning technology and the pedagogy of Primary teaching. His first book 'The Thinking Teacher' was published in January 2014 by Crown House Publishing.[4]

Oliver is a Google Certified Teacher, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer, and presented at the first international Google Teacher Academy in London in 2010.[5]

In September 2011 Oliver was awarded joint first prize in the Association of Learning Technologist's annual 'Learning Technologist of the Year award.[6]

During his University studies Oliver was joint station manager of student radio station 'Sure Radio' (Now Forge radio), and was instrumental in its move to full-time broadcasting and amalgamation with the other student media organisations at Sheffield Union. He was also nominated for a BBC student radio award for his dance and electronic music programme.

Books

The Thinking Teacher (Crown House Publishing) (2014)[4]

The Digitally Agile Researcher (McGraw Hill Education) (2017) (Contributor and editor with Dr. Natalia Kucirkova)

gollark: No we don't.
gollark: Except not really that either and mapping on regular computers to it is kind of unhelpful.
gollark: The brain is combined kind-of-volatile RAM and CPU.
gollark: No, analogising it that way is ridiculous.
gollark: It's some sort of neural-net-type thing with weird extra communication between components running on weird hardware.

References
  1. "Ian Gilbert - Author Details - Crown House Publishing". Crownhouse.co.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  2. "Oliver Quinlan". Warwick.ac.uk. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. "Mr Oliver Quinlan - Plymouth University". Plymouth.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Oliver Quinlan - Google Teacher Academy Resources". Sites.google.com. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  6. "2011 winners of the Adobe Systems sponsored Learning Technologist of the Year | Association for Learning Technology". Alt.ac.uk. 8 September 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
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