When the MSOR Network was formed in 2000 I was a first year undergraduate student of mathematics at the University of Nottingham with typically no idea what I wanted to do afterwards. After graduating in 2002 I was recruited by Stephen Hibberd and Cliff Litton at Nottingham to develop their Virtual Learning Environment for service mathematics called MELEES. This appointment was for four months before I started a Masters degree in computing and was my first experience of HE mathematics from the point of view of the teacher. The first published article with my name on it anywhere was an account of the implementation of MELEES in MSOR Connections in 2003.
Later that year Pam Bishop published a report I wrote on the state of MathML implementation in current web browsers on the MSOR Network website. Encouraged by this in 2004 I submitted an account of my MSc dissertation on e-assessment in mathematics to Cliff Beevers’ Maths-CAA Series which was published online by the MSOR Network from 2001-6.
