Mobile computing, Open content, Augmented Reality, electronic books, gesture computing, visual data analysis all within 3 years?

At a recent conference the new Vice Chancellor of the Open University alerted delegates to what he described as a growing “crisis of relevance” in our schools and colleges.

Global technological advances usually take some time to dribble down into the education system. This time lag creates what what Martin Bean, Vice Chancellor of Open University, recently described as “the crisis of relevance facing education”.

What makes effective cpd in ICT? There have been some mixed messages recently about how confident and competent teachers are in the use of ICT for teaching and learning.