Bob Harrison

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'Bob Harrison is Education Adviser to Toshiba Information Systems Northern Europe.

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 described as a 'writer, presenter and researcher on mobile learning, digital technologies and next generation learning'.

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.