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(1) When we pioneered CDs & CD ROM authoring for education in the Renaissance Project with a number of other UK universities - we became largest producers of CD-ROM in Europe. It was Apple Computer who funded, and learned, from the multi-million £ project...
(1ii) ...which was world leading. The Dept for Education ignored it & a huge lead for UK education was lost. However, Apple went on to thrive in new media alongside their cool hardware. http://www.rops.org/cen/writing/cen_guardian_10.htm
(2i) When we set up Schools OnLine in 1995, years ahead of FaceBook or Google, it was the UK's Dept of Trade & Industry @tradegovuk with (excellent) Conservative minister Ian Taylor & a string of companies who learned from it and funded it with £1m..
(2ii) ...it was world leading. The Dept for Education ignored it & a huge lead for UK education was lost. The supporting companies however learned much, & went on to thrive in the new digital world. https://heppell.net/sol/
(3i) When we created SchoolNet 2000 it was Tesco that put mi££ions into what became the then world's biggest internet learning project (Guinness Records). The Dept for Education ignored it & a huge lead for UK education was lost...
(3ii) ..However, Tesco learned much about online activity and are now UK's dominant online store with £5.5 billion in online sales this year. http://heppell.net/scholaliberum/media/TSN2K_bag.jpg
(4i) When we set up http://Notschool.net in 1997, a fully online school for those many excluded from school by behaviour or often by tough home circumstances, we did it with the Department for Education (hurrah!).
(4ii) ...It was applauded by the audit commission for "best value" - same cost as face to face learning so way below PRU costs. It was hugely effective for many thousands of our "researchers" each year...
(4iii) ...but we had an exhausting annual battle for funding - being saved only by a furious (& inspirational) Labour education minister Charles Clarke. It was world leading but now forgotten & a huge lead for UK education was lost.
(5i) When we built the Ultraversity degree in 2003 - where your full time work was also your full time study & your research was applying learned knowledge to improving your work & workplace it was a fully online bespoke full time degree...
(5ii) ...Ultraversity directly addressed the employment and skill needs of its students. It was world leading but now forgotten & a huge lead for UK education was lost. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/jun/20/elearning.technology15
(6i) Our 5 years of IoT / Cloud data research, measuring factors that impact on learners' cognition, became our http://Learnometer.net device, much loved around the world. But it was British industry (Gratnells) who picked up distribution...
(6ii) ...final product is now industrially designed in California & manufactured in S. Korea (BREXIT?). World leading but Dept of Ed ignore it, continuing to specify cognitively damaging schools & processes (eg current CoVID Deep Cleaning & accompanying TVOC damage)
(7i) Think where we'd be now if @EducationGov had embraced all or any of this? So: how to keep DfE away from ANY post CoVID progress in education whilst giving our hard pressed industries the chance to invest in & learn from world leading education initiatives? @tradegovuk
