Bob Harrison Email & Phone Number

Bob is Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton He has had extensive experience in schools and colleges as a teacher, lecturer, senior manager, Principal and Governor. He has worked with Head teachers 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 Digital/e-learning adviser for the DfES Standards Unit and was the lead on Digital Futures for Building Schools for the FutureBob is also Chair of Governors at Northern College, Governor at Oldham College.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 a BERA member and recently presented at BERA 2019 on “Digitisation and Academisation”.Bob was a member of the British Computer Society/Royal Academy of Engineering working group which redrafted the ICT National Curriculum to make it more “ambitious and challenging”. He also chaired the computing expert group established by the DfE to support teachers and teacher educators in the transition to the new computing curriculum.Bob was a leading member of the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group and a member of the Ministerial Educational Technology Action Group chaired by Professor Stephen Heppell.Bob regularly visits the Palo Alto campus of Stanford University to research current developments and is particularly interested in the “education’s digital future” at Stanford and is an assessor at the Graduate School of Education for the Masters programme Learning Design with Technology.He was a Board member of the UfI Trust, a £60m charity supporting innovative developments in the use of technology for teaching,learning and assessment in further vocational and adult education.and a Judge for the BETT Awards, TES FE Awards, Learning Remained awards, E-Assessment awards and the EdTechUK awards.

Listed skills include Staff Development, Coaching, Leadership Development, Public Speaking, and 7 others.

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  Education Adviser

  Toshiba

  Jan 2000 - 2017 - Northern Europe

  Provide strategic advice on education policy and research into impact of digital technology on teaching and learning.