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Matic Media Ltd was first set up in 1996 by Paul Bacsich. However, Paul Bacsich has been operating as an educational and e-learning consultant since 1984, when he took on his first contract to advice an IT-based start-up sales company wanting to use viewdata to support a distributed sales force. Shortly after this he set up a VAT-registered partnership with three other Open University staff, trading as “Educational Information Technology Associates”, which in the later 1980s carried out a lot of consultancy work for the European Commission, either directly or as subcontractors, on a series of studies that led up to the DELTA series of ICT-based learning projects within the 3rd Framework programme.
As his colleagues left or retired from the OU, Paul took on and developed the remaining business, first on his own, later with the help of his wife. For several years in the early 1990s, there was little activity as this was the era of the massive JANUS programme which absorted all Paul’s energies (but which provided much consultancy for a number of well-known and still active consultants). During 1996, when Paul was organising a long drawn out transition to Sheffield Hallam University, he took the opportunity to reconstruct the business into its current form.