Nick Kearney has been working in teacher training and educational management for over 15 years. This work led first to an interest in CALL, and then with the advent of the Internet in the mid 90s to increased involvement in the development of new learning approaches based on the use of ICT in a wide range of educational and training contexts, including secondary and university education, and vocational and continuous training. This has included a large number of EU and nationally financed projects in which he has worked severally as coordinator, consultant, reviewer and evaluator. He was also coordinator of the Pedagogies Group in the EU Prometeus initiative.
His particular interests in the field currently include collaborative learning, informal learning, intergenerational learning, lifelong learning, learning in virtual worlds, learning in groups at risk of exclusion and digital literacy. He has participated widely (as speaker, chair and organising committee member) in a range of international conferences over the past 10 years, including Online Educa, (Madrid and Berlin) and published widely in books and journals, ranging from El País to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
After ten years as ICT/Learning Coordinator at Florida Centre de Formació Educational Cooperative in Valencia, Spain, he is currently working as an independent educational consultant for ANDAMIO Education and Technology. Current projects include work for a range of governmental organizations in Mexico and Spain on the use of ICT for learning in contexts including rural and adult education, and work focusing on literacy, interaction, GBL, virtual worlds, and the integration of ICT in mainstream educational contexts.