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Conferences & Events
C21st Learning: Professor Stephen Heppell
26.03.08 | University of Greenwich, Dockyard Campus, Chatham
Over 200 colleagues attended the recent C21st Learning Conference facilitated by "Europe's leading online education expert", Stephen Heppell [see biography below].Participants included respresentatives from schools in waves 5, 6 and 7 of the Kent BSF Programme, as well as members of the Secondary Transformation Team and the Advisory Service Kent.
The conference focused on the impact of ICT on learning and how curriculum re-modelling will address the needs of C21st learners and learning and challenge conventional classroom practice and the relationships between adults and learners. Organised as part of the Kent BSF Programme, the conference provided colleagues with an opportunity to develop their visions for 21st Century learning and develop plans to meet the educational challenges of the Children Act, the 14-19 agenda and the introduction of the diplomas.
To support the aims of the conference, and promote further discussion, please find below three five minute videos edited from each session.
Stephen Heppell continues to be a key player in the Kent BSF Programme and is continuing to work with Kent colleagues through the curriculum re-modelling groups who are devising appropriate curriculum schemes at both school and area levels to ensure that Kent pupils have access to a truly C21st programme of learning.
Stephen Heppell - Brief Biography
"The most influential academic of recent years in the field of technology and education" Department for Education and Skills (DfES), UK, 2006
"Europe's leading online education expert" Microsoft 2006Stephen Heppell is a Professor at Bournemouth University, an Emeritus Professor Anglia Ruskin University and a visiting Professor at the University of Wales, Newport. In the 1980s, he moved from the Government's groundbreaking Microelectronics Education Programme and founded Ultralab. Ultralab grew to become Europe's leading learning technology research centre pioneering multimedia CD ROMs and on-line communities in the 1980s.
Stephen was the guiding "father" of a number of social networking projects including ESW, Schools Online, Tesco Schoolnet 2000 and Think.com. Stephen left Ultralab to found his own consultancy Heppell.net which now has a portfolio of international projects. Stephen is executive chairman of LP+ who are working in partnership with China's Sun New Media Corporation to develop a Chinese language learning community for 20 million Chinese school students.
Stephen chairs the charity Inclusion Trust which developed the flagship project Notschool.net for children excluded from school by behaviour or circumstances. Stephen is also a board member of Teachers.TV, and sits on BAFTA's Film Committee. In June 2006, Stephen was awarded the Royal Television Society's Judges Award for Lifelong Services to Educational Broadcasting. Stephen is retained by a number of organisations to help with future policy and direction, including the BBC and KPMG, and is retained by UK government in Horizon Scanning work to advise of future directions for educational policy.
For more information, please visit http://www.heppell.net/