Sadly, two months after retiring from KMi Dr Peter Whalley died on 8 January 2013 due to ill-health. He is greatly missed.

Peter joined the OU in 1976, initially working in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET). He joined the Knowledge Media Institute at its formation in 1995, where he was a 'creative visionary' in the new media team, and a stalwart of the lab.

Peter brought numerous new ideas to his research and to students of The Open University. He was deeply...

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Kelley, P., Tindle, D., Anand, D., Whalley, P., Hogan, P., Valentine, C., Pillinger, P., Gibson, E. and Schwenzer, S. (2011) The Open University-NASA Apollo Virtual Microscope - a tool for Education and Outreach, Poster at 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, USA

Whalley, P., Kelley, S. and Tindle, A. (2011) The role of the Virtual Microscope in distance learning, Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 26, 2, pp. 127-134, Routledge

Anand, M., Pearson, V., Kelley, S., Tindle, A., Whalley, P. and Koeberl, K. (2010) Virtual microscope for extra-terrestrial samples, European Planetary Science Congress 2010, Rome, Italy

Whalley, P. (2006) Representing parallelism in a control language designed for young children, 2006 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, Brighton, UK

Whalley, P. (2006) Modifying the metaphor in order to improve understanding of control languages- the little-person becomes a cast of actors, British Journal of Educational Technology, Blackwell

Whalley, P. (2004) Interacting with layered dynamic media some educational aspects of MPEG 4, British Journal of Educational Technology, 35, 4, pp. 489 495, Blackwell

Whalley, P. (2003) Interaction as enquiry learning with layered dynamic media, Human Computer Interaction (INTERACT '03), Zurich, Switzerland Human Computer Interaction, INTERACT '03, eds. M Rauterberg M Menozzi J Wesson, pp. 936 939, IOS Press, Amsterdam