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Details for Professor Angela McFarlane
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| Name | Professor Angela McFarlane | ||||||
| Job title | Visiting Professor in Education |
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| Department | Graduate School of Education University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BSc, PhD(Bristol) | ||||||
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| Keywords | computers in education ICT in schools e-learning evaluation computer games for learning |
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| Areas of expertise | I have designed and directed national research and evaluation projects on ICT and Learning, and am part of the team that designed the longitudinal study of the impact of networked technologies on home and school learning - Impact2. As Director of the Centre for Research in Educational ICT, Homerton College, Cambridge, my research involved evaluation of the impact of networked technologies on learning. I have worked with the OECD and the National Education Research Forum and was a Director at Becta (British Education and Communications Technology Agency). I have managed a number of major software development programmes. I currently hold a chair in education at the University of Bristol. I'm a director of the TEEM project on evaluation of digital content in the classroom, and on the steering committee of the FutureLab project, and the education committee of Nesta (National endowment for science, technology and the arts). |
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| Media experience | I have made a number of TV and radio contributions, including appearances in specialist and popular media such as Woman's Hour. I both write for, and have been regularly interviewed by, local and national press. I have a column (Monitor) in the Times Educational Supplement Online magazine. |
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