International Speakers


	JAMES BOSCO is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Educational Studies at Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo. The focus of his work has been on the impact of digital media on the transformation of learning and schooling. He served as a consultant or project director for a number of corporations such as the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company, Clarke Equipment Company, and General Motors/United Auto Workers in efforts to find new ways to use digital media to improve training. His work with schools has always involved an activist “hands on” approach such as serving as the co-director of high school reform project based at a local high school which was sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation. Bosco played a key role in connecting Michigan schools to the Internet as the director of one of the five hubs established by the state of Michigan connect schools. In Michigan to served as the chairman of the state boards for ThinkQuest and for Tech Corps. He was invited by Senator Carl Levin to work with a group of five other state school leaders to explore ways to expand the effective use of IT in Michigan schools. At Western Michigan University he was responsible for creating the first U.S. online graduate training programs for school district technology directors. At the national level, he established and chaired the collaborative group of organizations that created the Technology Standards for School Administrators, a project which then was adopted by ISTE as part of its NETS initiative. Bosco served on the Board of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and as its chair and is currently co-chair of the CoSN International Committee that is responsible for establishing communication and cooperation between ICT leaders in the U.S. with their counterparts throughout the world. Bosco is the author of a number of papers focused on information and communications technology as a basis for educational reform and he has been an invited speaker at Conferences in the U.S., Ireland, Australia, Russia, and the U.K. At present he is principal investigator for the CoSN project titled “Schools and Participatory Culture: Overcoming Organizational and Policy Barriers.” which is sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This project is providing resources for school districts throughout the U.S. which are making use of digital media to transform the learning environment for their students.

	STEPHEN BRESLIN joined Futurelab in 2008 as Chief Executive. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of The Kelvin Institute Ltd, which was formed as a joint venture between two of Scotland's leading universities as a vehicle for the commercialisation of university-generated intellectual property. Stephen's background is in engineering, and he has over 15 years' experience in commercial software development, working with many of the world's largest blue-chip organisations in a variety of fast-moving technology sectors. Stephen holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, as well as an MSc from the University of Sheffield

	DOUG BROWN has been involved in educational computing since starting as a teacher in the early 1970s. He joined the Birmingham Educational Computing Centre in1981 and as computing use spread Doug took on the role of managing in-service training and the advisory team for ICT before acting for a short spell as director of the whole of Birmingham’s Educational Support Services. In 1991 he became Birmingham schools' ICT adviser and was responsible for the strategic direction of ICT across the Local Authority, and the development of one of the first area wide intranets - the Birmingham Grid for Learning. In 1998 Doug was invited to advise the Government and was instrumental in the development of the Virtual College of School Leadership. In 2000 Doug moved to lead the Government’s ICT in schools’ policies in England. His team had responsibility for infrastructure, connectivity, content development, skill development, teacher in-service support and embedding good practice in the use of ICT in all aspects of school life. Since 2004 the UK have hosted a world ministerial seminar on ICT with the 2010 event attended by over 1000 senior representatives from over 100 countries with more than 70 ministers of education - representing over 80% of the world's population Internationally, Doug is well respected, frequently being invited to keynote at major conferences and also advising Governments on their strategies for technology enhanced learning. He was on the advisory committee for OECD’s New Millennium Learners Project and is vice-chair of (and chair of their Policy and Innovation committee) European Schoolnet - a consortium of 31 European ministries of Education. In June 2010, Doug, with three other colleagues established STEP-A International Ltd. (www.step-a.org), a company whose remit is to share the experience of England in developing the use of technology in education for school improvement with national and regional governments and also global companies.

	GAVIN DYKES has 25 years experience of strategy and policy for all levels of education. Throughout his career, his major focus has been on innovation and the use of technology to support learning. A strategic thinker, he has contributed to and led e-learning strategy and policy development in several countries and for international organisations. He has demonstrated his leadership, management and organisation skills whether running education industry partnerships, in his first career as a civil engineer or in events working with ministers and leaders in education. In colleges and with universities Gavin has established innovative programmes of learning from Foundation Degrees in Ecommerce Technologies to PremierLeagueLearning.com for England’s soccer Premier League. Working with governments, and in each of the last eight years, Gavin has been responsible for the programme of an annual forum (the Education World Forum) for ministers of education around the world. The event has attracted more than 50 Ministers in each of the last four years and provides opportunity for discussion of key global and national education challenges. He has helped organise, and contributed to, events in the Far East, Asia, Middle East, Australasia, Americas and Europe. Gavin was Associate Director with responsibility for technology’s use to support the Next Practice Programme of the government’s Innovation Unit. Gavin is an Associate Director of Futurelab and Fellow of Education Impact. Gavin has worked in many countries; most recently in Qatar, Korea, Azerbaijan, India, United States and the United Kingdom. He has also worked with major corporations including HP, Microsoft, Promethean and Cisco, on their strategies and their engagement with education.

	BILL GILCHERdivides his time between independent projects in international and intercultural communication and his work for the Goethe-Institut/German Cultural Center, where he is director of media-based projects for North America. The Goethe-Institut’s general mission is to promote knowledge of the German language abroad and to foster international cultural cooperation on a global basis. For the Goethe-Institut, Bill has specialized in video, audio, and internet-based projects that explore educational and cultural issues in the European-American dialogue. The responsible and innovative use of technology in foreign-language education (which automatically means learning about culture as well) is an area of personal and professional interest. This interest has been significantly enhanced by his work with CoSN’s international initiatives over the last ten years.

	KAREN GREENWOOD HENKE is a professional writer and speaker on emerging technologies and their role in education. She is the managing director of Nimble Press (www.nimble-press.com), a web content and strategy consulting firm, and is also the founder of Grant Wrangler, a free grants and awards listing service (www.grantwrangler.com). Karen has been on the CoSN Board of Directors since 2006. Follow Karen @ Twitter: @nimblepress

	STEVE HARGADON is the Social Learning Consultant for Elluminate/Blackboard Collaborate, founder of the Classroom 2.0 social network, host of the Future of Education interview series, and co-chair of the Global Education Conference. He pioneered the use of social networking in education, particularly for professional development. He blogs, speak, and consult on educational technology, runs the Open Source Pavilion and speaker series for the ISTE, CUE, and other edtech shows, and is the organizer of the annual EduBloggerCon, OpenSourceCon, and the "unplugged" and "bloggers' cafe" areas at both ISTE and CUE. He is also the Emerging Technologies Chair for ISTE, the author of "Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education," the recipient of the 2010 Technology in Learning Leadership Award (CUE), and a blogger at www.SteveHargadon.com. He has consulted for PBS, Intel, Ning, Microsoft, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, CoSN, the U.S. State Department, and others on educational technology and specifically on social networking. He and his wife have four children. He can be reached at steve@hargadon.com or on Twitter @stevehargadon.

	CARLA JIMENEZ is an Education Consultant in the Education Division at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she collaborates in the development of ICT in education projects and monitoring and evaluation strategies. She has also worked with citizenship and human rights education at the Organization of American States (Washington DC) and at the Inter-American Human Rights Institute (Costa Rica) developing online training tools for teachers and human rights advocates in Latin America. She has been an active volunteer for CISV conducting leadership training for youth worldwide. She graduated from SIT graduate Institute with a Masters degree in International Education and from the National University of Costa Rica with a Masters degree in International Relations and Project Management. Follow Carla @ Twitter: BIDEduTics Blog (in English): ict.iniciativaeducacion.net Blog (in Spanish): tics.iniciativaeducacion.net

	Steen Lassen is born in 1950 and holds a MA (Danish Language and Literature) from University of Copenhagen 1977. He has been educational adviser for the Ministry of Education 1984-1995. Today he is senior adviser in the Ministry of Education in Denmark, Department of General Upper Secondary Education. He is chief adviser to the Minister of Education concerning ICT in General Upper Secondary Education and responsible for the pedagogical use of ICT. Steen Lassen’s major current tasks concerning ICT are responsibility for the ministerial orders con-cerning ICT in General Upper Secondary Education, e.g. ICT in all subjects, blended learning, ICT allowed at all exams. He is also head of pilot project with ICT-based exam assignments with access to the internet.

	SUSAN MANN has played a key role in supporting the national implementation of ICT policy in Australian school education over the last decade. Susan Mann was appointed in March 2010 as the CEO of Education Services Australia, an organisation owned by all Ministers for education focusing on technology and service support for the Australian education and training sector. Prior to this she was the CEO of Curriculum Corporation since 2005 and her work focused on the transformative potential of information and communication technologies for education. From 2001 to 2005, Susan led the Learning Federation, an Australian and New Zealand government initiative producing digital content, distribution architecture and content development standards for schools.

	LAURA MOTTA is a graduate form Instituto de Profesores Artigas and Universidad Católica, consultant and teacher trainer. Her teaching experience includes 24 years as an elementary and high school ESL teacher. In addition to teaching, Ms. Motta has worked on Professional Development Programs. In 1998 she co-coordinated the Lerning .English.Network.Project for secondary school teachers Since 2009 she coordinates the “Uruguay Estudia”. In 2002-2003 she co-directed a national research on English language learning at secondary school. Since 2008 she is head of the National Language Policy Program in her country. Ms. Motta was member of the National Board of Education from 2008 to 2010. She is member of the National Board of Teacher Eduaction and member of the Plan Ceibal Advisory Committee In 1997-1998 Ms. Motta was member of the board of URTESOL. She is member of the board of Comparative Education Association. She has co-authored Uruguay in Focus and several articles in national and international magazines.

	Professor KATHRYN MOYLE is a distinguished research leader with an international reputation. In 2010, the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) published her monograph: Building Innovation – Learning with Technologies.Her current research work focuses on listening to students’ and educators’ views about the role of technologies in teaching and learning, educational leadership and the inter-relationships between professional standards and teaching and learning with technologies.Prior to moving to Darwin, Kathryn was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Community Studies at the University of Canberra. While at the University of Canberra Kathryn held a peak, national role as the Director of the Secretariat for the Australian ICT in Education Committee (AICTEC). This Committee comprised representatives from all education and training jurisdictions in Australia and advised all Ministers of Education and Training on national, cross-sectoral ICT issues, including the Digital Education Revolution. She also held the position of Deputy Chair of the University of Canberra Human Ethics Committee and was the University of Canberra-Canberra Institute of Technology Liaison Officer.

	Before GUUS WIJNGAARDS (1949) started to work as Professor on eLearning at INHOLLAND University for Professional Education, he was working as a Teacher, Researcher, Journalist, Foreign Secretary of a Dutch teacher union, Secretary General of the European Association of Teachers (AEDE), Editor in Chief and Projects Manager of CONTEXT and finally as Deputy Director of EUN (European Schoolnet). He attained in May 1973 an MA in Dutch language and literature and in February 1986, an Arts PhD on European cultural and scientific history. He published several books and more than 300 articles on educational, cultural, foreign political and literary subjects. INHOLLAND Centre for eLearning: www.inholland.nl/elearning