Professor Ale Armellini

Dean for Digital and Distributed Learning

Prof Alejandro (Ale) Armellini leads digital learning, learning innovation and pedagogic transformation, including on-campus and online provision, across all Faculties at the University of Portsmouth. He developed the Digital Success Plan for Learning and Teaching, which became the centrepiece of the University’s Education Strategy. Reporting to the DVC (Education), Ale is the strategic lead for the Centre for Academic and Digital Innovation (CADI). 

Before joining Portsmouth, Ale was Dean of Learning and Teaching at the University of Northampton, where he led the redesign of all programmes for active blended learning (ABL). His work shaped Northampton’s flagship Waterside campus, which opened in 2018 – without lecture theatres, among other radical features. He publishes widely and is a global reference point in areas including large-scale institutional transformation, ABL, learning design and innovative teaching practices across different modes of study.

Ale is a National Teaching Fellow, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the UK. He holds visiting professorships at several universities and is active in external examining and consultancy globally.