FOTE11

Voted for by the FOTE community, this year’s panel will be discussed challenges associated with ‘Bring Your Own Device – BYOD’. Just as colleges and universities do no provide students with paper, pens and stationery items but expect them t...

Sue Beckingham of Sheffield Hallam University discusses how our graduates of tomorrow face an increasingly competitive job market. Competing for jobs will no longer be confined to the communication channels we have traditionally used for decades and th...

Andrew Bollington, Chief Operating Officer for the University of London International Programmes looks at the changes in higher education funding that have re-written the rule book , with the full consequences yet to be understood. From next year, as ...

At FOTE11 Dr Su White, University of Southampton looks at how the world is changing and universities must respond to students’ needs and expectations in agile and effective ways. Learners enter university with an inevitable diversity of technological...

At FOTE11 Emily-Ann Nash of the NUS Higher Education Committee explored how students have differing expectations and motivations of higher education and how they may change in light of an increase in fees. She then explores how using technology effect...

Lee Scott, an Academic Evangelist within the Developer and Platform Evangelism ‘DPE’ Group at Microsoft UK discussed the Microsoft Kinect within teaching, learning and research at FOTE11. Since its release of Kinect, there has been tremendous e...

At FOTE11 James Clay from Gloucestershire College discusses that in many institutions the structures, processes and procedures we have in place are there for many reasons; these may be for security, safety, financial, prevention, health and safety. Of...

We set aside 5 slots in total for people to get up on stage and share their views on the future of technology in education in 140 seconds in an elevator style pitch. The participants who stepped up to share their views were - Martin King – Flippi...

Nick Skelton is Assistant Director of IT Services (Infrastructure) at the University of Bristol and in his FOTE11 talk looked at: What do students actually expect from University? One long party? To pass a few exams? Or something more than that? And...

Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Ph.D (Chemistry) is a research director in Gartner Research and his FOTE11 talk takes the vantage point of the CIO who is expected to navigate the tsunami of technology and deliver learning capabilities. He takes a dive into some ...

Cailean Hargrave of IBM at FOTE11 discussed that, although investment in education has steadily risen over the last decade, we have not seen a corresponding rise in student attainment levels. Students still fall behind and drop out, yet officials la...