Professor Andy Lane has a BSc in Plant Sciences and a PhD in Pest Management from the University of London 1 . He has been at The Open University 2 since 1983 and held various offices in the former Technology Faculty (now Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology) including being Head of the Systems Department and Dean of the Technology Faculty.
Promoted to Professor of Environmental Systems in 2005, he was appointed as Director of The Open University's OpenLearn 3 Initiative in 2006. He has authored or co-authored many teaching texts and research papers dealing with systems thinking and environmental management, the use of diagramming to aid systems thinking and study, and more recently the development and use of Open Educational Resources.
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