Salford Business School Dr Aleksej Heinze

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Aleksej is a full member of the Information Systems, Organisation and Society (ISOS) Research Centre which is part of the Salford Business School.

He is also an associate member of the Centre for Enterprise and Innovation Research (CEIR).

• Practitioner member of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the British Computer Society
• Board member of the UK Academy for Information Systems

Qualifications

• 2003 – 2008: PhD title: ‘Blended Learning: an Interpretive Action Research Study’ – University of Salford
• 2007 – 2008: PgCert in Higher Education Practice and Research – University of Salford
• 2000 – 2003: BSc (Hons) in Business Information Systems – University of Salford

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• Team Projects - team projects reading list
• Search Engine Optimisation - Search Engine Optimisation reading list
• Undergraduate dissertations and projects supervision - selected reading

Aleksej is the Team Projects Scheme Manager: sourcing and assigning projects, and liaising with industrialists, academic staff and students.

Postgraduate:

• Information Security Standards - Information Security Standards reading list
• IT Infrastructure - IT Infrastructure reading list
• Masters dissertations supervision - Masters dissertation reading list
• PhD thesis supervision - selected research methods reading

Modules taught in the past:

• Programming
• Dynamic Web Development
• PHP and MySQL
• Research and IT Skills
• Systems analysis and design
• Software Engineering
• Multimedia

Enterprise

Consultancy

Aleksej is involved in a number of commercial projects where he works with teams of other academics and commercial partners. One of such activates is Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP), current partnerships are with organisations such as Cetus Solutions, Beta Group and ASE PLC.

Commercial training

Aleksej also developed and delivers commercial training courses such as Search Engine Marketing Management and Search & Social Media Marketing.

Project examples:

• 2010: MNEMOS
• 2010: INNOPOLIS
• 2010: KTP ASE PLC
• 2009: KTP Beta Group Ltd
• 2009: KTP Cetus Solutions Ltd
• 2008: Evaluation of HEFCW's Third Mission Funding - Innovas
• 2008: Evaluation of online research communities - Virtual Surveys Ltd
• 2008: Manchester & Salford Enterprise Culture, Engagement & Support Pilots- Manchester City Council and Salford City Council

Research

Recent publications (see www.seek.salford.ac.uk for full list)

PhD thesis:

Heinze, A. (2008). Blended Learning: an Interpretive Action Research Study. PhD Thesis, University of Salford, Salford

Journal articles:

Heinze, A., & Procter, C. (2010). The significance of the reflective practitioner in blended learning. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL), 2(2), Forthcoming. Available online: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/8823/

Heinze, A., & Heinze, B. (2009). Blended E-Learning Skeleton of Conversation: improving formative assessment in undergraduate dissertation supervision. British Journal of Educational Technology, Special Issue: e-Assessment: developing new dialogues for the digital age, 40(2), 294-305.

Cooper, G. and A. Heinze (2007). "Centralisation of Assessment: meeting the challenges of Multi-year Team Projects in Information Systems Education." Journal of Information Systems Education 18, 3, 345 - 356. Abstract available online: http://www.jise.appstate.edu/Issues/18/V18N3p345-abs.pdf

Whatley, J. and A. Heinze (2007). "Paperless Assessment via VLE: the Pros and the Cons." Innovative Learning in Action 6 (Autumn/Winter 2006): 19. Available online: http://www.edu.salford.ac.uk/docs/ilia_issue6.pdf

Lynch, K., A. Heinze, and E. Scott (2007). "Information technology team projects in higher education: An international viewpoint." Journal of Information Technology Education, 6, 181-198. Available online: http://jite.org/documents/Vol6/JITEv6p181-198Lynch354.pdf

Heinze, A., C Procter, and B. Scott (2007). "Use of Conversation Theory to underpin Blended Learning," International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies, 1, 1 & 2

Book chapter

Lynch, K., Heinze, A., & Scott, E. (2009). Scholarly Collaboration Across Time Zones. In J. Salmons & L. Wilson (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy (pp. 237 - 249). London: Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global).

Conferences

Ferneley, E., and Heinze, A. (2009). Research 2.0: improving participation in online research communities. Paper presented at the European Conference in Information Systems.

Ferneley, E., Heinze, A., & Child, P. (2009). Research 2.0: encouraging engagement in online market research communities. Paper presented at the UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS).

Heinze, A. and C. Procter (2008). Is Blended Learning a ‘silver bullet’ for part-time mature student education? Paper presented at the Blended Learning Conference 2008. Available online: http://www.herts.ac.uk/fms/documents/teaching-and-learning/blu/conference2008/Aleksej-Heinze-2008.pdf

Lynch, K., A. Heinze, and E. Scott (2007). "Information technology team projects in higher education: An international viewpoint." 2007 Informing Science andInformation Technology Conference, Available online: http://jite.org/documents/Vol6/JITEv6p181-198Lynch354.pdf

Cooper, G. and A. Heinze (2007). Assessment challenges of Multi Year Team Projects in Information Systems Education. Manchester, Manchester University, UKAIS.

Some of Aleksej's publications are available to download at:usir.salford.ac.uk/view/authors/Heinze,_A.html

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