About Us

ABOUT US

OneHE is the first global network for educators who are passionate about learning and teaching and the student experience. We bring educators together to share ideas, solve common challenges and inspire each other.

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"It's widely agreed that building connections via digital engagement is an important aspect of the higher education community. OneHE has created a useful space for HE practitioners to share, create, and collaborate. This network will bring the community together in useful ways as well as providing a digital space for meaningful conversations, engagement and the development of innovative thinking."

Eric Stoller, Higher Education Strategic Communications Consultant

About us

OneHE is the first global network for educators who are passionate about learning, teaching and the student experience in higher education.

We exist to help us come together as a global community to transform the impact and effectiveness of learning and teaching by building on the shared wisdom, experience and passion of educators worldwide. We want to enhance public faith and confidence in the value of educators and to act as a force for social good.

Our vision is that, working together, our global professional community will bring about lasting positive change for students and society.

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Who we are

OneHE was formed in 2018 as a “profit with purpose” organisation, committed to helping educators worldwide to increase the impact and effectiveness of learning and teaching in higher education. We deliberately chose to establish OneHE as a private company so we could raise investment to further the community’s goals, recognising that previous efforts have lacked sustainable funding and been subject to the whims of policy-makers.

We are a member-led organisation, focused exclusively on the needs of educators. Every decision and action is taken with the goals of our community in mind. We take consultation and communication with our members extremely seriously. Our Advisory Group and User Group, drawn from our membership, help to shape the future direction of OneHE. We welcome all feedback from our members.

One of the things that makes us unique is that we believe passionately in giving back. That’s why a significant proportion of all membership fees is reinvested into the community through the OneHE Foundation, a commitment that is enshrined in our founding principles. As the OneHE community grows, we want everyone to benefit from the investments we can make into improving the student academic experience.

We are driven in all things, by our values which are to be open, inclusive, trusted, progressive and aspiring. These values are reflected in our Code of Conduct for members, and govern the way we operate. We believe they are the values we all need to make the global higher education community successful and to enhance public faith and value in what we all do.

Whether you are an individual educator who wants to do the best for your students, a community manager driving practice in your field, or an institutional leader who wants to provide more and better opportunities for your staff – we welcome everyone who shares our passion for improving the impact and effectiveness of learning and teaching in higher education.

OneHE Advisory Group

Dr Gavan Watson

St. John's, NL, Canada

VP Teaching and Learning and Director for the Centre for Innovation in teaching and learning, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Dr Andree Sursock

Belgium

Senior Adviser at European University Association and independent higher education expert

Professor Karen Stanton

York, UK

Vice Chancellor, York St John University

Dr Mary Deane Sorcinelli

Amherst, MA, USA

Senior Fellow, Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr Jamil Salmi

Colombia

Independent Higher Education expert

Professor Beverley Oliver

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Alfred Deakin Professor and Former Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, Deakin University, Melbourne

Sean Michael Morris

Fredericksburg, VA, USA

Director, Digital Pedagogy Lab at University of Mary Washington

Professor Stephanie Marshall

London, UK

Vice Principal Education, Queen Mary University of London and independent Higher Education expert

Professor Steve Joordens

Toronto, ON, Canada

Director, Advanced Learning Technologies Lab, University of Toronto, Scarborough

Dr Jim Hall

New York, NY, USA

Dean, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

Dr Sue Giloi

Pretoria, South Africa

Provost at Inscape Education Group, Pretoria

Professor Sir Drummond Bone

Edinburgh, UK

Chair of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education and former Master of Balliol College at the University of Oxford

Dr Michael Berman

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Chief Innovation Officer and Deputy CIO at California State University

Dr Maha Bali

Cairo, Egypt

Associate Professor of Practice, Centre of Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo

Professor Peter Arthur

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Professor of Teaching, University of British Columbia

Professor Arshad Ahmad

Lahore, Pakistan

Lahore University of Management Sciences

The Team

OneHE was founded by Dr Mark Jones, Olivia Fleming and Simon Jones, formerly members of the Executive team of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), a global charity promoting better teaching in higher education.

Simon Jones

Simon Jones (Founder and Director of Engagement) is a brand specialist and customer marketing champion. He has worked in agencies, including Saatchi & Saatchi and a successful start-up, and on the client side in the UK and SE Asia with brands including Sony, BBC, EEC, Teesside University, GNER, the Pakistan Inward Investment Programme and Tiger Beer. He was part of the Executive team that delivered the turn around of the AIM listed utility company Fulcrum and joined the Higher Education Academy in 2015.

Olivia Fleming

Olivia Fleming (Founder and Director of Partnerships) is a specialist in global development with a background in higher education, supply chain management and business development. She began her career working in the international Healthcare sector for Boehringer Mannheim, Roche Diagnostics and Trinity Biotech before moving to the Higher Education Academy where she championed the successful global expansion of the Higher Education Academy from a standing start to presence in more than 40 countries.

Dr Mark Jones

Dr Mark Jones (Founder and Managing Director) is an experienced higher education manager and specialist in commercialisation with a background in academia, digital learning and broadcast. In his career, he has worked for the Universities of York and Hull, the BBC, ITV, Eutelsat and SES, launched two start-ups and managed three organisations from grant dependency to commercial sustainability. Mark served as Chief Operating Officer at the Higher Education Academy between 2015 and 2018.

Advisory Group

The OneHE Advisory Group draws together senior leaders in learning and teaching to inform our strategic direction, challenge our thinking and spur us on to achieve our ambition.