Professor Jilly Salmon
Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia
Professor Gilly Salmon has been a learning innovator for more than 20 years and is one of the world’s leading thinkers in digital and blended learning. She researches and publishes widely on the themes of innovation and change in Higher Education and the exploitation of new technologies of all kinds in the service of learning. She is internationally renowned for her significant contributions to education futures, including research, innovation, program design, teaching methods and the use of new technologies. Professor Salmon, as of October 2014, has taken up the role as the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Education Innovation, at the University of Western Australia. She was previously Pro Vice-Chancellor of Learning Transformations at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Prior to her Swinburne appointment, Professor Salmon was Executive Director and Professor (Learning Futures) at the Australian Digital Futures Institute, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. She was previously Professor of E-learning and Learning Technologies, and Head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance and the Media Zoo, at the University of Leicester in the UK, and prior to that with the UK Open University Business School.