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I'm Doug, based in Northumberland, the English county of castles and coastlines. As you can see from my CV I've had a varied career, following my interests and values. I've always got some projects on the go. Find out how to work with me.
I work primarily through a cooperative I helped set up in 2016 called We Are Open and occasionally through my personal consultancy businesses, Dynamic Skillset.
I'd describe myself as a generalist, interested in many things—although I'm perhaps best known for my work on digital literacies. I successfully defended my doctoral thesis on the topic and then wrote a book entitled The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies during the time I was Web Literacy Lead at the Mozilla Foundation.
In addition, I'm known for my evangelism of Open Badges which is a form of web-native digital credentialing. I've travelled the world speaking and facilitating on this and many other topics at hundreds of events.
One of these topics is decentralisation, which I also explored on a very practical basis as Product Manager of MoodleNet. This involved building a talented and diverse team to deliver the world's first federated, resource-centric, social network for educators.
I'm trying to make the world a better place than I found it. If you're doing something similar get in touch!
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