e-learning specialists
Make it Happen (MIH), headed up by Dane Gould and Christine Wilks, specialise in eLearning, training and consultancy services for the Third Sector and voluntary and community organisations in England and Wales. MIH’s aim is to help empower communities and enhance community development.
Contact: admin[at]makeithappen[dot]org[dot]uk
Dane
Dane, the Managing Director of Make It Happen, is an experienced consultant, e-learning trainer, face-to-face trainer, and community development practitioner. He is something of an e-learning evangelist for the Third Sector and has been instrumental in developing national e-learning strategies for organisations such as Volunteering England and runningsports. On a practical level he has developed extensive expertise in designing and creating online learning experiences within the Moodle open source framework. He is an experienced producer-director of video documentaries and campaigning promotions (e.g. for the Anti-Poverty Network and Centrepoint) and has been working with Third Sector clients in a variety of media for more than 20 years. He is an Investing in Volunteers (IiV) Lead Assessor for Volunteering England, a PQASSO Mentor, a licensed trainer for runningsports, a member of the Institute for Learning (IfL) and a member of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
Christine
Christine is a digital writer and artist/designer who specialises in creating interactive and multi-media content for the web and online learning experiences. Her web skills include designing and developing in Flash, HTML, digital video production and using Moodle, and WordPress open source platforms. A keen advocate of lifelong learning, she has over 20 years experience of developing and delivering training and latterly e-learning in creative and media fields and for the Third Sector. Before becoming engrossed in the web, she made short films, videos, animations, and wrote for the page and screen, including two TV commissions for BBC drama. In 2008 she graduated with distinction from the online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, UK. These combined skills and experience make her ideally suited to designing e-learning courses and producing multi-media content for online delivery and distribution.