Doug Belshaw
Founding Member at We Are Open Co-op
Morpeth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Belshaw is a Director Consultant with 11 years' experience helping mission-driven organisations navigate digital strategy, AI literacy, and credentials. He co-founded We Are Open Co-op and built MoodleNet, the world’s first federated social network for educators, combining product leadership with community-centred, open approaches. A former Mozilla lead on web literacy and Open Badges, he blends deep academic grounding in digital literacies (Ed.D.) and systems thinking with practical delivery across education, NGOs, and media clients like BBC R&D and Amnesty UK. Based in Morpeth, UK, he acts as a facilitator and critical friend who prioritises embodied practice over abstract philosophy.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Systems Thinking in Practice, MSc Systems Thinking in Practice at The Open UniversityDoctor of Education (Ed.D.) Digital Literacies, Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) Digital Literacies at Durham UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at The University of Sheffield
Spanish, English
Github Skills (48)
surface10
read-write9
bonfire9
reader8
telegram8
passwords8
effort8
anonymous8
jekyll8
lists7
messenger7
nodejs7
javascript7
engage7
tailwindcss7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
6th-Morpeth-Scouts/6th-Morpeth-Scouts.github.io
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:154 pushes, 1 branch, 7 comments in 1 year 3 months
weareopen/badge-news
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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