My career in education technology began quite accidentally in 1994 as an offshoot of my previous career as a radio producer. In 1994 I accepted a position as an Instructional Assistant in the Applied Communication Program at Camosun College where I spent a number of years producing radio courses that were delivered over the air on our campus educational radio station. In retrospect, producing these radio courses represented my first foray into education technology and open pedagogy, despite the term not coming into common usage for another 20+ years.

My educational interests include network learning, online and blended learning, open education practice (OEP), open educational resources (OER), and experiential learning.

Within my current position as the Manager of Education Technologies for BCcampus, I coordinate sector-wide inter-institutional collaborative projects in the areas of open education and education technology. For context, BCcampus is a publicly funded non-profit organization that provides leadership and support to the British Columbia post-secondary system on a variety of collaborative teaching, learning, open education and education technology initiatives.

I am also an Associate Faculty member in the School of Education & Technology at Royal Roads University, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Victoria, and a longtime edtech blogger, first at my eponymous site clintlalonde.net and, since in 2016, at edtechfactotum.com.

Prior to my current position, I was the Manager of Learning Technologies within the Centre for Teaching and Education Technology (CTET) at Royal Roads University where I managed a development team responsible for the development of online courses and the maintenance of numerous education technology platforms that supported online course delivery. I also spent 7 years as a Distributed Education Web Specialist at Camosun College.

In 2002, I attended the AMIT (Application and Management of Information Technology) program at the University of Victoria and completed my Master of Arts in Learning and Technology degree at Royal Roads University in 2011.

Before working in educational technology, I had a career as a radio broadcaster, working at a few radio stations in  Alberta and British Columbia, including a stint as the General Manager of CKMO radio, an instructional radio station at Camosun College in Victoria which provided both experiential education for future radio & television broadcasting students and produced and broadcast for-credit radio courses.