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In this evening seminar, a panel of expert speakers outlines the secrets of delivering successful interactive learning projects, using a series of case studies to illustrate how innovation and education can work together. In association with BAFTA and NESTA Futurelabs. Supported by Business Link for London. FULLY BOOKED

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This evening seminar examines market opportunities in interactive learning, and explores the challenges and rewards of combining different learning styles and objectives with the creative and technical demands of digital media production.

Participation is central to the learning experience, and since the earliest days of multimedia CD-ROMs educators and training providers have been interested in harnessing the interactive properties of digital media to get their message across.

Nowadays that interest is keener than ever, with internet use second nature to most of the working population, broadband finally taking off, mobile phones ubiquitous and DVDs commonplace in homes, offices and campuses. The Government is committed to the cause too, and has contributed millions towards projects such as the University for Industry, Nesta Futurelab and the Open University's online learning programme.

In this evening seminar, a panel of expert speakers outlines the secrets of delivering successful interactive learning projects, using a series of case studies to illustrate how innovation and education work together.

The evening begins with a presentation by Martin Freeth, Chief Executive NESTA Futurelab, who will talk about the organisation’s programme during its first year of operation, highlighting some of the interactive learning projects which have been developed through its creative incubator scheme.

There will then be two case studies of interactive multi-platform learning projects, with presentations by both the educators and the producers who collaborated on them.

The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion, with questions from the audience. Afterwards, there will be a networking session, and drinks will be served.

Presented in association with BAFTA and NESTA Futurelab; produced by Stephen Jeffery-Poulter; supported by Business Link for London (www.bl4london.com )

Speakers

• Professor Jonathan Briggs (Chair), Kingston University; Strategy Director, The Other Media; co-founder Hyper Island University College, Sweden
• Martin Freeth, Chief Executive NESTA Futurelab.
• Annie Valva, Vice President, Pearson Broadband Education Television
• Phil Hemmings, Director of Corporate Affairs, RM
• George Auckland, Head of Innovation, Factual & Learning, BBC
• Adam Gee, Creative/Commercial Director, 4Learning

Further Details

Martin Freeth, NESTA Futurelab
By linking creative talent, educational expertise and the power of digital technology, NESTA Futurelab is helping to transform the learning and teaching landscape. The organisation focuses firmly on the longer-term, developing compelling educational prototypes that can operate on systems and platforms that are likely to become available both in schools and homes by 2005 and beyond. As a creative incubator, NESTA Futurelab provides research and development support for companies and individuals who submit ideas. NESTA Futurelab is a collaborative enterprise, sharing our findings through our structured events programme and our website. They also provide a brokerage, networking and information service for those seeking information about the future of educational ICT.

Phil Hemmings, RM Plc
Phil Hemmings is Director of Corporate Affairs with RM plc. In this role he is responsible for RM's relationship with Government and the educational community, and in particular for developing RM's position with respect to Curriculum Online and the National Grid for Learning. He has worked for RM for sixteen years, starting as a software developer and subsequently working in a number of marketing and general management roles. At various times he has been responsible for RM's secondary school networking products, RM's school management and administration offer and all of RM's customer communications.
Founded in 1973 by Mike Fischer and Mike O'Regan, RM plc, based at Milton Park in Oxfordshire, is the UK's leading supplier of IT software, services and systems to the UK education market. Initially founded as a high technology start-up exploiting the availability of low-cost microprocessors, RM rapidly became a pioneer in the application of technology to education. The Group's first educational microcomputer was launched in 1977, and schools, colleges and universities have formed the core of their business ever since.
mathsAlive! is a pilot digital learning service for Key Stage 3 mathematics developed by RM as part of a £5m Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) contract to produce technology-based courses in key curriculum areas. 3T Productions, RM's interactive web design subsidiary, will produce new interactive maths education content for the service. The course includes complete sets of material for whole-class teaching using interactive whiteboards, individual work on and off the computer in class and for homework, internet-based project work, and computer-based assessments of progress.

Jonathan Briggs, Director, The OTHER media
Jonathan Briggs is Professor of New Media Design at Kingston University, and Strategy Director of technology consultancy the OTHER media. His principle work is in applications of technology to social and environmental issues. He consults for clients such as WWF, the Nuffield Foundation, Legal Services Commission and the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is a Fellow of the British American Project and the Royal Society of Arts.
The OTHER media are a technology company that helps other companies understand and get the best out of the internet, mobile and broadband systems. The backgrounds of their team are very diverse but they have a strong information systems core plus effective design and business knowledge. The company has been around for seven years and has worked for large and small clients, including Delia Online, the World Wildlife Fund and the Cricket Ground at Lords. In addition to work for clients, OTHER media is also involved in experimental and research projects and joint ventures such as WorldBookDealers.com and Hyper Island University College, in Sweden. The company’s content management service, OTHERobjects, has been developed for over three years and has recently been extended to provide even richer services including mobile, iTV, search and community tools.

Annie Valva, Pearson Broadband
Annie Valva joined Pearson Broadband after working as Director of Technology for WGBH Interactive, the leading Public Broadcasting station in the United States. At WGBH Annie helped lead the station's online efforts to produce cutting-edge interactive TV, broadband, and narrowband content in support of major national television series. She has also done research in the MIT Media Lab. At Pearson Broadband, Annie oversees the design, production and technical implementation of educational broadband projects for school and home markets. Currently, her team is creating a curriculum-based product for primary schools in the United Kingdom.
Pearson Broadband creates high-quality, cross-cultural television and broadband content that takes people along their very different paths to learning. From entertaining children's television to digital learning systems, and from the classroom to the home, in close collaboration with innovative people the company helps people learn more in personalised ways – and do it with the backing of the world's largest education company.

Adam Gee, Creative/Commercial Director, 4Learning
Adam Gee is Creative/Commercial Director of Channel 4's 4Learning, and was formerly Director of Production of Redbus CPD. Adam has won over 40 international awards for his productions including a BAFTA, a Design Council Millennium Award and the Grand Award at the New York International Film & Television Festival. He is a member of BAFTA¹s Interactive branch, a voting member of the European Film Academy, active in the government's Broadband Stakeholders' Group (Content and Education Working Groups) and the Digital Content Forum's Education Industry Action Group.
Channel 4's 4Learning produces multiple media resources for learners in the pre-school, school, post-school and adult markets including on-line resources, disk-based materials, video and print. It also provides learning support services such as helplines.
Redbus CPD/keep-up-to-date.tv is one of the UK¹s pioneering broadband producers, specialising in screen-based learning. keep-up-to-date.tv is a highly focused web channel providing full-screen, full-motion interactive video programmes to professionals in healthcare and other industries to help them fulfil their mandatory Continuing Professional Development on-line. The company was named one of the 100 'most innovative companies in the UK' by The Guardian, BT and Cranfield Management School in their Vision 100 index this year.

George Auckland, Head of Innovation, BBC Interactive Factual and Learning George Auckland joined the BBC in 1969, the year he graduated from Durham University with a Degree in Applied Physics, and started as a trainee Film Editor. He became a TV producer and worked on many programmes from Blue Peter to a whole range of award-winning Adult education programmes. In spring 1996 George helped create the BBC Education Website, and in 1999 became Head of a new department: Digital Media, which won the Royal Television Society, Educational Television, Judge's Award in 2000 for BBC Education Online.
BBC Online Learning comes from a long tradition of BBC Education initiatives starting in the early 1980s with the BBC Micro-computer and TV programmes such as Micro-live. In 1994 the BBC Networking Club was launched to help people get on line, together with programmes like The Net. Shortly afterwards the BBC started to produce original online content to go accompany programmes. The department now produces informal and formal educational content for children and adults, ranging from the pre-school Teletubbies, through GCSE Bitesize to sites for adults like Webwise, History, Gardening, etc

Paul Robinson, Secondary Education Development Officer, BBC
Paul Robinson is the BBC’s Secondary Education Development Officer (EDO). Following a career in teaching and LEA advisory work, Paul joined BBC in 1993 as Subject Officer for English and PSHE. At that time the role of Subject Officers related mainly to radio, TV and print resources, but is now exclusively concerned with the development of online services for schools.
The role of the EDO involves day to day contact with teachers, to ensure that new services are effectively planned and pitched, and to provide direct feedback from the classroom. Paul played a major part in planning and launching BBC Bitesize, the leading on-line and TV revision service for schools, and is currently working on pilot projects in community broadband learning.

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This event is supported by Business Link for London (www.bl4london.com )

Location

BAFTA