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Martin King, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College

Biography

Martin King is Head of IT services at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College (EHWLC). Martin is especially interested in the intersection of technology and culture and how this is played out within education. After reading psychology and anthropology he went on to study computing and education. He has 30 years experience of working with IT in further education from teaching with mainframe terminals in the early 1980s through managing PC/LAN/ client-server networks in the 1990s to heading up IT services in one of the UK's largest further education colleges since 2001 in what can be described as the web era. Martin is a passionate advocate for personal learning both with and without technology and institutions. He is working on projects that promote mutual co-created learning, social learning, web working and personal technologies.

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Janet: what comes NET

This presentation looks at general concepts of resilience, the problems with it and how we can go beyond resilience. The presentation also looks at some emerging concepts, ideas and technologies that take us beyond resilience and challenge the net (and maybe Janet) as we know it today.

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