Prof Stephen Heppell
...sometimes people need a short "who is he?" for bid documents, flyers, etc. or some media quotes for conference intros
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Professor Stephen Heppell b. Buckinghamshire, England
Professor Stephen Heppell b. Buckinghamshire, England
CEO Heppell.net,
Professor Bournemouth University, Chair in New Media Environments,
Emeritus Professor Anglia Ruskin University
Visiting Professor University of Wales, Newport.
Executive chairman LP+Press and media comments:
"Europe's leading online education expert" Microsoft 2006
"Stephen has a vast portfolio of successful, large scale, learning projects behind him". JISC 2006
"Ultralab is Europe's leading leading research institute pioneering leading edge applications in support of proven educational precepts." Oracle Corporation 1999
"one of the most respected research centres in e-learning in the world" Financial Times 2001
"the most influential academic of recent years in the field of technology and education" Department for Education and Skills (DfES), UK, 2006
"Money alone won't make the Internet fly. Ultimately, it's success lies with kids and other folk who don't follow dot-com stocks. That's where Stephen Heppell comes in. He's a digital do-gooder, helping to bring ordinary people into the Internet age.... looking about as threatening as Santa Claus with his twinkling blue eyes and bushy beard" Wall Street Journal 2000
"He could clearly be a very wealthy man because of his unique foresight, but he's decided that he wants to help children and parents get the most out of IT and Education" European Wall Street Journal 2000
Stephen's ICT career (he is credited with being the person who put the C into ICT), began with the UK government's Microelectronics Education programme (MEP) in the early 80s, after he had been teaching for some years. Stephen founded and ran Ultralab for a quarter of a century, building it into one of the most respected research centres in e-learning in the world - at one time Ultralab was the largest producer of educational CD-ROMs in Europe - before leaving it in 2004 to found his own global and flourishing policy and learning consultancy Heppell.net which now has an enviable portfolio of international projects all round the world.
Stephen pioneered, and was the guiding "father" of, early social networking with seminal projects including
- *ESW in the 1980s, Schools OnLine for the UK Department of Trade and Industry in 1995/6,
- Tesco Schoolnet 2000 from 1999 - the then Guinness Book of Record's largest internet learning project in the world.
- Think.com with Oracle from 1999.
- Talking Heads linking every UK headteacher into a community of practice
- Stephen created in 1998, and then guided for ten, years Notschool.net, at the time a uniquely effective project to re-engage children excluded from school by behaviour or circumstances.
In recognition of this work, along with just 51 others including Damien Hirst, Jarvis Cocker, Harrison Ford, Lauren Bacall, Muhammad Ali; Stephen became an Apple Master in the 1990s.
Stephen was a founder board member for Teachers.TV - a UK public service TV and broadband channel for professional development of teachers. He sits on the board of the UK's Skillset - guiding professional development and training in the Creative Industries; he sits on BAFTA's Council have formerly chaired it's Technical Innovation Jury and sat on its Film Committee.
Stephen holds the chair on New Media Environments at the Centre for Excellence for Media Practice at Bournemouth University, where all his PhD students are currently based.
Stephen is at the heart of a global revolution in learning space design, with a string of major new building projects worldwide including a 0-21+ academy in the UK and a complete makeover of a national education system in the Caribbean. His research project in 2003 exploring for CABE and RIBA in the UK the impact of new pedagogies on the design of learning spaces kickstarted a new rhetoric of school design in the UK and beyond.
Recent awards include: In June 2006 Stephen was awarded the Royal Television Society's Judges Award for Lifelong Services to Educational Broadcasting. In 2008 he received the BETT for Outstanding Achievement in ICT Education
Stephen is retained by a number of organisations and governments to help with future policy and direction, including the BBC, is an Associate of KPMG, and is retained by UK government in Horizon Scanning work to advise of future directions for educational policy.
last revised: Friday, December 18, 2009 0:25 AM
