Jack KOUMI has degrees in Mathematics and in Psychology. Grad Certs in Technology Based Distributed Learning and in TEFL.
For 6 years he was a London University lecturer and teacher trainer. For 23 years, until 1993, he worked for the BBC Open University, producing audio, video and multimedia in Mathematics, Science, Teacher Training. and Media Design. Also, over 10 years, he was Senior Instructor in a three-month annual course for overseas producers on educational video.
Subsequently, as a freelance consultant, he has conducted over 60 workshops and consultancies on educational media design, in 36 countries. He has published many papers and instructional texts, plus a book, Designing video and multimedia for open and flexible learning, Routledge 2006, reprinted 2009.
He authored and taught a MOOC, in Jan-Feb 2017: “What and How to Teach with Video”
Senior Lecturer, Jan-Mar 2019, running an online course, Achieving the Pedagogic Potential of Video, to final year Multimedia Studies BA students of the University of the Philippines Open University.