In a digital future for teaching, learning and assessment, the current principles for learning design will be examined and challenged for their fitness for purpose. The session will suggest that we need a paradigm shift in our thinking about how we can enhance and extend learning and empower learners to make more effective use of digital technology now and, more importantly, in the future. Bob Harrison will offer school leaders his practical insights and reflections to help them evaluate and develop their own approaches to edtech and digital learning.
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    Bob Harrison
    Former Teacher; Lecturer; Principal and Chief Examiner; Chair of Governors, Northern College; and Visiting Professor, University of Wolverhampton

    Bob Harrison has had extensive experience in schools and colleges as a teacher, lecturer, senior manager, principal, and governor. He has worked with headteachers and senior leaders in developing leadership skills for the National College of School Leadership; was the adviser to DfES on the FE Principals Qualification; was figital/e-learning adviser for the DfES Standards Unit; and was the lead on digital futures for the Building Schools for the Future Leadership programme where he designed and delivered the programme for LA’s.

    Bob is Chair of Governors at Northern College, Governor at Oldham College and Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton University.

    He was Toshiba’s Northern European Education Adviser for 16 years and is a writer, presenter and researcher on mobile learning, digital technologies and next generation learning.

    He is an assessor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education for the master’s programme on Learning DeDesign with Technology.

    He is a judge for the BETT Awards, TES FE Awards, Learning Remained Awards, E-Assessment Awards and the EdTechUK Awards.