Bob Harrison

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'Bob Harrison is Education Adviser to Toshiba Information Systems Northern Europe. He is described as a 'writer, presenter and researcher on mobile learning, digital technologies and next generation learning'.

Harrison has also been an adviser to the UK government as a member of ETAG, a national expert group advising government, to look strategically at technology in education.

He is also Vice Chair of Governors at Beacon College and governor of Trafford School.

He has also been involved in the following edtech initiatives:

• a “Digital Leaders” project, which supports pupils and students to become digital leaders and help with teachers professional development.
• Chair of the Teaching Schools New Technology Advisory Board, a group supported by the Department for Education which aimed to ensure that the next generation of teachers were skilled in digital teaching and learning.
• visiting scholar at Stanford University where has links with the Education’s Digital Future project.