STEM Faculty

Trevor Collins is a Senior Research Fellow at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute. His research interests are in the design and use of technology to facilitate teaching and learning. He is the Director of The OpenSTEM Labs, which supports practical and practice-based learning at a distance; and the Academic Lead for The OpenXR (eXtended Reality) Studios, which is developing the OU’s provision for collaborative and immersive learning online. Trevor is also an Associate Lecturer for the OU, tutoring students on the level 1 ‘Technologies in Practice’ course (module code TM129).

Trevor pioneered the use of mobile and web technologies on OU field courses to provide remote access to inaccessible field sites for students with disabilities. He also led the development of interactive web broadcasting at the OU as a method for engaging students in labwork and fieldwork at scale. Where around thirty ‘labcasts’ and ‘fieldcasts’ are produced for OU courses each year. His current work in The OpenXR Studios focuses on the application of eXtended Reality technologies to distance teaching, specifically, the use of virtual production techniques to create more immersive events and activities for students.