BRIAN JOYCE
Managing Director/Tutor

After completing his teacher training in 1972, Brian Joyce worked in a London school as a junior school teacher. He also worked part-time in a boarding school for boys with special needs.

In 1975, Brian moved north to Peterborough, starting as a scale 2 teacher. He also moved into developing a school bookshop scheme to encourage children to read more. This involvement gave him the opportunity to work with BB2 for a short period on a children's book programme called Long, Tall and Short Stories which was broadcast first in 1981 and then 3 years later.

In 1980 Brian and his Finnish wife Hilkka made a decision to move permanently to Tampere with their children. Brian found a work place in Tampere in 1981 at LS-Kieliopisto, but in 1983 he was offered a one-year lectureship at Tampere University. Following that he moved on to the University of Technology in Hervanta as a language teacher. After this spell in Higher Education he moved back to LS-Kieliopisto as half-owner. By 1989 he owned 70% of the school and changed its name to LSC-Opisto (Language Service Communications Oy).

He completed a Masters Degree in Open and Distance Education in 2000 with the Open University in the UK. In 2001 he was appointed Associate Lecturer for the Institute of Educational Technology, in the Open University; he is currently tutoring H802. In 2004 he co-published an article in a journal about online learning and in 2005 received a best teacher award from the Open University, UK.

His plans are to develop an online learning environment in partnership with other institutes. LSC-Opisto has already been awarded Vuoden Suunnannäyttäjä 1999 by TYT as a direct result of partnership and this Web-based learning vision.