Our Staff

It is the people at AIBS Online who will make your education a wonderful journey of exploration. We don’t agree with working our way around technology, we want technology to work around us. So even though your experience will be virtual, you will always have wonderful people available at the click of the button all the way through your studies and then some. All of the AIBS Online staff are university lecturers, as we believe that it’s not just the fancy technology but the content that students want out of their online education.
 

Marshall G. Hall AIBS Online Founder	Joanna Oman AIBS Online Co-founder

Marshall G. Hall  has been working on the idea of developing an online learning institution for many years now, and after spending countless hours talking about why this is the way of the future, and frustrating everyone in the office about it, he finally got the time and courage to do it. With a strong background in Media and Technology and the (annoying, but great really) streak to be the Teacher of the Year (every year) he is well placed to lead AIBS Online.

Marshall has this theory about the 3As of education: Accessible, Affordable and Appropriate. See opposite. As an academic first, and businessman second, he wants AIBS Online to spread this idea to all the eager students who want to learn beyond the traditional (and sometimes ineffective) ways of today.
During his many years with the American Intercontinental University (formerly The American College in London) he was voted “Best Faculty Member” (1994), “Most Outstanding Teacher” (1996) and was awarded the “SGA Leadership Award” (2000) by the Student Government Association.
A desired Speaker at many international conferences a recent invite took him to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia (2007) where he presented the Queen of Malaysia with an honorary doctorate degree.

With many executive roles, academic and business achievements, and notable publications behind him Marshall can draw on this extensive experience and network of professional friends in academia to enhance the reach and quality of AIBS Online. Just some of the institutions he has been a part of include Nord Anglia Education plc, London Media Educational Consultants, London School of Business and Management, the American Intercontinental University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Michigan.

Joanna Oman  toyed with the idea of international virtual education during her postgraduate studies, where she pursued the multimedia approach to teaching with plans to take part in virtual teaching projects in Alexandria, Egypt on graduation. Instead she joined the lecturing team in a London based university. A self-professed computer whizz kid, she continued to engage students in homemade virtual environments and activities while teaching in a traditional classroom.

She believes in combining a steady, disciplined approach to learning (and working, which is tough on the more laid back people in the office!) and making use of cutting-edge technology to keep students engaged. Joanna thinks the best student is one who never ceases to be amazed at the world around them and she designs AIBS Online virtual activities to allow students to maintain that state of wonder.

The institutions she worked for include Thames Valley University, School of Oriental and African Studies, London School of Business and Management, Middlesex University and the London Institute of Education (University of Arts).