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Andrew Comrie has worked in the Further and Higher Education sectors for over 20 years holding academic, management and senior management posts.  Living in Scotland, Andrew has always been interested in how alternative learning and teaching methods and technology could be used to improve access to education for people living in rural areas. With this ambition in mind, whilst at Perth College, Andrew ran a very successful Distance Learning Unit and setup the first Technology Enhanced Learning Centres in Perth and Kinross-shire.  He was also part of the team that designed the library/learning resources service for the UHI Millennium Institute. In the 8 years that Andrew was Vice-Principal at Lauder College in Fife, he introduced learning, teaching and assessment strategies which resulted in the innovative use of learning resources and learning technologies across the Curriculum.  Andrew set up his own Consultancy Company in 2007 and most recently has been directing the TESEP e-learning transformation project in Scotland for Napier University and has been working with the Higher Education Academy as a Critical Friend on the Pathfinder Programme.