Dr. Kathryn Chang Barker
Dr. Kathryn Chang Barker is a consulting education futurist with a PhD in Education Administration and Policy Studies from the University of Alberta (1994). Dr. Barker moved to the UAE to become the Director of eLearning at eTQM College in Dubai for one year. Having gained valuable local experience, she has now re-launched FuturEd Consulting, a Division of KCB Management Consulting FZE.
As founder and president of FuturEd Consulting Education Futurists Inc., in Canada, Dr. Barker has provided research and development in the education industry since 1995. She has expertise and experience in the fields of eLearning quality; workforce development and lifelong learning; education reform in the context of global change; accountability, Return on Investment, and quality assurance in learning systems; international education and national standards development; adult and workplace literacy; learning technologies and distance education; prior learning assessment, human capital assets management, and various other fields related to learning innovations. She had established expertise in professional research, project management, strategic and operational planning, policy development and analysis, written communications and corporate presentations, internet business applications and marketing, business planning and development. Numerous papers and presentations are in the eLibrary and Corporate ePortfolio on the FuturEd website Her current passion is the ePortfolio – the electronic record of a person’s acquired skills and knowledge – and she is working to implement the ePortfolio for digital identity and the new management of learning.
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stablished “consumer’s advocate” in the field of education and training. She is concerned that the end-users get the information they need to make informed choices, and this is reflected in such FuturEd projects as the Consumer’s Guide to eLearning and a Consumer’s Guide to ePortfolio Products and Services. She also believes there is a need for consumer protection and consumer confidence in eLearning, and in 2002, Barker launched QualitE-Learning Assurance Inc. - a service to assess and certify the quality of on-line learning. Based on the Open eQuality Learning Standards that were created by FuturEd, QualitE-Learning licenses the eQcheck certification mark to products and services that meet consumer-oriented standards of excellence.
Reflecting this concern for consumer protection and quality standards, Dr. KC Barker is also the Creator and CEO of www.TheSpaReview.com – an online enterprise that assesses the quality of spas from a consumer perspective and promotes spa culture worldwide.
For consulting services, workshops and keynotes, contact her:
Dr. Kathryn Chang Barker
PO Box 214990, Dubai, UAE
+971 50 450 0599
e-mail: kbarker@futured.com