Education Leaders Program / Stephen Heppell
Stephen Heppell
Bournemouth, UK
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"We may be looking at the end of Education, but it might well be the dawn of Learning."
Stephen Heppell is CEO of heppell.net and chair of New Media Environments at Bournemouth University. He is also emeritus professor at Anglia Ruskin University, a visiting professor at the University of Wales, Newport, and executive chairman of LP+.
Heppell founded Ultralab in the 1980s, moving there from the UK government's groundbreaking Microelectronics Education Programme. Ultralab grew to become Europe's leading learning technology research center, with projects that pioneered multimedia CD-ROMs and online communities in the 1980s — before the web. In recognition of this work, he became an Apple Master in the 1990s.
Heppell was the guiding "father" of a number of social networking projects, including *ESW in the 1980s, Schools OnLine for the Department of Trade and Industry in 1995, Tesco SchoolNet 2000 from 1999, and Think.com from 1999. He left Ultralab to found his own flourishing policy and learning consultancy, heppell.net, which now has a portfolio of international projects including Learnometer and HorizonTAL. Heppell was a founding board member for Teachers.TV — a UK public service TV and broadband channel for professional development of teachers.
In June 2006, Heppell was awarded the Royal Television Society's Judges Award for Lifelong Services to Educational Broadcasting.
