Chair’s Introduction

Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology, University of Newcastle;

Lord David Puttnam CBE FRSA, film producer and chairman of Atticus Education;

Dr Nick Saville, Director of Research & Validation, Cambridge English Language Assessment.

Some of the latest technologies demonstrated by four leading organisations:

• Cambridge GCSE Computing Online. This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) has been created by the partnership of exam board OCR, Cambridge University Press and the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Christine Swan, Director of ICT and Enterprise, The Stourport High School and VIth Form Centre;
Clive Beale, Director of Educational Development, Raspberry Pi.

• ALISON (Advanced Learning Interactive Systems Online). This global social enterprise provides essential, certified, education and workplace training skills free to any individual, anywhere, over the web.
Mike Feerick, CEO, ALISON.

• Futurelearn. This is a private company wholly owned by The Open University. It offers a diverse selection of free, high quality online courses from some of the world’s leading universities and other outstanding cultural institutions.
Russell Beale, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Birmingham.

• Demonstrated by Dr Helen Eccles, Director - Development,an online learning platform from Cambridge International Examinations which supports Cambridge IGCSE Global Perspectives and brings schools together for shared learning.

Chaired by Pat Glass MP;
Panellists from the first and second sessions will be joined by;
Siôn Humphreys, Policy Advisor, National Association of Headteachers (NAHT);
Nick Jones, Principal, Twickenham Academy.