Professor Bruce King

Professor Bruce King was made an Emeritus Professor of the University in August 2007. His career has spanned management, policy advice and curriculum development in distance education, open learning, and flexible delivery as theorist, practitioner and manager. He has held senior management position in both universities and vocational education and training systems. At the University of South Australia he oversaw the movement from conventional distance education to the flexible delivery of over 1200 courses online. Highlights of policy advice include work for the Commonwealth of Learning, the Australian Government, AusAid and individual institutions in Australia and the UK. He has provided expert advice in Tonga, South Afirca, Indonesia and Sweden; was a member of the UNESCO panel of experts on distance education in Russia;and represented the Australian Government in Japan and Thailand. He led the small team that developed the world's first professional qualification for distance educators and was part of the group which formed the fundamental approaches to curriculum and delivery of Open Universities Australia. His contribution to the literature of the field has been through conference proceedings, authored books and papers, editorial work and membership of the editorial boards of international journals, including 'Open Learning' and 'Distance Education'. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Occupational Health and Safety Education Accreditation Board and is the education advisor to the Board. His role has helped the Board significantly align its approach to accrediting university programs to the changing context of higher education, in particular to the performance standards established under the Australian Qualifications Framework and the approaches to quality determination prescribed by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency.

Member, International Council on Distance Education,Former Vice President, Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia,Fellow, Australian College of Educators

Qualifications

• Master of Arts Flinders University

• Diploma of Education The University of Adelaide

• Diploma of Education University of London

• Bachelor of Arts The University of Adelaide

• Diploma of Teaching (Secondary) Adelaide Teachers College