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Gurmit Singh, M.Ed.


Gurmit is Founder of 3-Os Learning Innovations. He has 15 years of experience related to education - e-learning, curriculum development and programme design, project management, implementation and coordination.

He has expertise in health professional development, language teacher education, trainer development, business executive development, research on pedagogy and practice, online mentoring and online community building, synergizing old with new programmes to evolve and adapt during times of change, online participatory action research, and community-based research.

He has facilitated, trained, mentored and developed communities, health workers, language teachers, front-line staff, functional specialists, middle managers, executives. Strategically and analytically, his strong and diverse education and marketing communications background enables him to discover unique synergies and harmonise programming across departments and disciplines to add value by nurturing workplaces as dynamic learning communities for ongoing performance improvement and business results.

As a lateral and creative thinker he enjoys working with clients to co-design effective learning processes that integrate real-world systems complexity so people teach and learn together, through inquiry, practice, reflection, collaboration, and action evaluation, to achieve a more satisfying life.

Prior to founding his new venture, Gurmit was Coordinator for Professional Development and Education Programmes at the International AIDS Society, the convenor of the International AIDS Conference, the world's largest health gathering with 25,000 delegates. Thanks to the insights he developed from examining the current programmes and assessing the priority needs of his learners worldwide, he developed his prize-winning innovation - providing online mentoring for early career health researchers from developing countries to improve their scientific writing. Subsequently, he also developed a model to synergize capacity-building workshops with mentoring conversations within health conferences. Both of these innovations improve the cost-effectiveness of knowledge transfer and leverage the proven benefit of social and informal collaborative learning, online and onsite, to sustain the global health response for the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Raised in Singapore, he has an M. Ed (Distinction) in Trainer Development from Exeter University, UK. He did his BA (Honors) degree in International Relations and Economics at Brown University, USA, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. He is a Singapore Airlines Overseas Undergraduate Scholar, and was a President's Scholar and Baker Fellow at Brown University. He is a certified Adult Educator, and also holds certifications in Fieldwork Risk Assessment, Project Management, Building Online Communities, and Coaching Teams to Improve.

He is the Facilitator of the We Decide learnscape on e-democracy, equity and social justice. and on the Editorial Board of the open-access journal Digital Culture and Education

His research focuses on the theory and practice of 21st century community and professional education. His vision is to develop more effective continuous interdisciplinary development globally through smarter implementation of learning technologies to improve knowledge transfer and collaboration outcomes, synergise personalised and social learning, and improve professionalism for a better world.

He is on an ESRC Scholarship to undertake PhD research in this area at the University of Leeds, 2010.

He has been published in the Cambridge Handbook on 2nd Language Teacher Education, the Handbook on E-governance and Social Inclusion, the journals Digital Culture and Education, and Interactive Technology and Smart Education, as well as presented at the IADIS e-learning conference 2009, the US NIH 3rd Implementation Science conference in March, 2010, and the MIT Fifth Conference of Learning International Networks Consortium in May, 2010. He spoke at the MSM Pre-conference at AIDS 2010 in July 2010 on HIV and the Internet. He gave the community response speech at ICAAP, the Asia-Pacific AIDS Conference in 2009, Bali, Indonesia.

He is editing a special issue on Building the HIVe for the DCE Journal. He is editing a special issue on Democratising e-democracy for the Transforming Government Journal.

He spoke at AMEE 2011 Conference on The future of online continuing medical education: Towards more effective approaches.

Contact: gurmit at 3-Os dot com

Randy Fisher, M.A., OMD
Randy Fisher (aka WikiRandy) has 15 years of experience related to stakeholder engagement, project management, implementation and coordination. He has expertise in change/transition management; organizational design and development; e-learning and learning communities; and building high-performing and sustainable projects, communities of practice and networks. He is currently the managing director of iCentro Networks, based in Ottawa, Canada]

Randy is a member of the governing council of WikiEducator (originally a project of the Commonwealth of Learning), a community of 15,000+ educators in 120 countries (a top 100,000 website), dedicated to developing free and open education resources (OERs). He is a top contributor (26,000+ edits); and provides facilitation and community-building services. He provides organization development and capacity building to International Centre of Open Education / OER Foundation, in New Zealand, the nonprofit entity supporting WikiEducator, WikiResearcher and other open education projects.

Prior to joining Intersol, Randy provided project management, cluster development and learning coordination services to the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), supporting five education specialists in Open and Distance Learning (ODL): elearning, governance, community media, higher education and international organizations. Please see his CV/Resume.

He works collaboratively within and across a broad and diverse spectrum of organizations and stakeholder communities on a global and virtual scale; from front-line staff and functional specialists to middle managers and executives to achieve desired outcomes on complex issues with an engaged sense of ownership, pride and belonging.

Randy has considerable expertise in using social media technologies for business applications. He uses wikis, blogs and social networking tools for collaboration, participatory (action) learning and strategic engagement, movement and momentum. Randy facilitates and builds scalable and sustainable learning communities and living networks, and coaches people for high levels of interest, motivation and readiness for cultural change / transition.

He has a MA in Organization Management and Development (2009) from Fielding Graduate University (with a specialty in complex adaptive systems and community engagement using social media). MA Thesis:Primal Needs Gone Digital: Educators' Motivations in an Open Wiki Environment

He holds a post-graduate degree in Journalism (King's) and a BA in Political Science (McGill). He is a Certified Advanced Technology Manager (Newbridge Networks/CATA Alliance), and also holds certifications in the Birkman Method, Myers-Briggs, Strong, Instructional Design and Train-the-Trainer methodologies.

Contact: wikirandy at gmail dot com