![]() ![]() ![]() “Europe’s leading online education expert” Microsoft 2006 ![]() Pioneering CD ROM projects in the 80s led onwards onwards to hand held projects – like the radical eVIVA project with QCA using mobile phones to capture learner narrative in a formal viva. ![]() Pioneering projects have consistently reached out for the early adoption of people-power technologies, like Hypercard, into learning. This geek of geeks, this net-head of all times, this revolutionary who is yanking the British education system out of its Victorian slumber and shaping it for the digital information age, surely it couldn’t be this genial fellow before me with his whitening Father Christmas beard and Hush Puppy fashion sense” Design Magazine “when I finally spotted him, Stephen Heppell didn’t look at all like I imagined. He is involved in the building, or redevelopment, of a mass of learning spaces worldwide, from community and corporate, through to Higher Education and of course a good number of radical, effective and seductive schools. In Architecture and Design his pioneering research work for CABE and RIBA redefined the scope of learning spaces, largely informed by the emerging pedagogies in his virtual spaces. “The father of ICT, Stephen Hepell” think:lab blog 2007 A string of very-large-scale projects showed and still show just how seductive online learning communities could be and he started these in the pre-web days of the 1980s. Past projects range from the Guinness Book of Record’s largest internet learning project in the world last century, through a community of 20,000 headteachers to the worldwide. Stephen pioneered collaborative virtual learning spaces. “Professor Stephen Heppell: the UK’s leading on-line education guru” Channel 4 TV 1999 A regular broadcaster himself, he received the Royal Television Society’s Judges’ Award for lifetime contribition to educational broadcasting in 2006. In new media and broadcasting he has been at the forefront of the new media revolution since the 80s, currently guiding a range of organisations from BAFTA and the BBC through to the Teachers’ TV and the innovative sports channel Cowes.TV. Stephen’s work extends into multiple, but overlapping, domains: Stephen Heppell is a Senior Consultant with EDI advising clients on a wide range of education and ICT issues. ![]()
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