Email: stephen@cemp.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1202 961662
Twitter: @stephenheppell
Blog: http://phone.heppell.mobi
Stephen is a leading voice on the role of ICT in learning and is Professor of New Media Environments at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice. He leads pedagogic research at the Centre and supervises PhD students. Previously, Stephen spent around a quarter of a century building Ultralab, which established an exceptional, unique, reputation as a world leading learning technology research centre. He later went on to head his own policy, research and practice consultancy which advises governments and national agencies throughout the world on the strategic development of ICT. He is a member of BAFTA and in 2009 he was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award from British Education and Technology Training (BETT).
Memberships
BAFTA: Chair of the Technical and Social Innovation jury and the Design jury.
BAFTA Interactive: Founder and Committee Member.
Information Technology in Teacher Education: Founder Member.
ESRC - Very Large Data Sets working Group: Member.
DfES - School’s Internet Safety Strategy Group: Member.
DfES Minister's Advisory Group on Design of School Buildings: Member.
DfES Minister's Advisory Group on Design of Classrooms of the Future: Member.
QCA Advisory Group on e-assessment futures: Member.
Royal Television Society: Chair of Multimedia Jury.
Teacher TV: Member of the Board.
UNESCO: Member of ICT Committee.
Welsh Assembly’s Schools of the Future Committee: Member.
Publications
Heppell, S., 2004. 21st century schools: learning environments of the future. Commission on Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).
Heppell, S., 2002. Assessment and new technology: new straightjackets or new opportunities? In: Assessment Futures. London: Qualification and Curriculum Authority.
Heppell, S., 2002. Young is not Necessarily an Issue of Age. Conseil International des Mdias Educatifs. Refereed Theme Issue "ICTs and Media" EMI 39 no 3 & 4, 2002.
Heppell, S., 2000. eLearning. In: Education Futures. London: RSA / Design Council, 2000.
Heppell, S., "Pedagogy, progress, politics and power in the Information Age" in Using IT effectively: a guide to technology in the social sciences" edited by Millsom Henry, UCL Press 1998.
Heppell and Ramondt; "Online learning - Implications for the University of Industry: a preliminary case study report" in Journal of Education through Partnership vol2, No 2 1998.
Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award - British Education & Training Technology.
Apple Fellow.
Apple Master.
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts.
Royal Television Society's Judges Award for Lifetime Services to Educational Broadcasting.
