Stephen Molyneux (born 24 February 1955) is a British educational technologist whose work as

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Professor of Advanced Learning Technology and Apple Distinguished Educator has led to him influencing the use of technologies across the British School system. After spending 16 years in the multimedia and education industry working for

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, Ariolasoft and the German Ministry of Education and Science, Molyneux returned to the UK in 1991 to take up the position of Professor of Multimedia at the

University of Wolverhampton The University of Wolverhampton is a public university located on four campuses across the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, Shropshire and Staffordshire in England. The roots of the university lie in the Wolverhampton Tradesmen's and Mech ...

where he was responsible for the Interactive Multimedia Communications undergraduate programme. During this time Molyneux was responsible for project BroadNet, a network designed to deliver training materials online to Small Business across England's

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. For this pioneering work, in 1994 he was appointed a Fellow of the British computer giant ICL alongside other distinguished

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In 1995, whilst holding the Microsoft Chair of Advanced Learning Technologies at the

, he developed one of the first Virtual Learning Environments in the UK. In 1996, as a

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media fellow he developed with Ed Briffa, Editor of the BBC Science programme

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,a first real-time online science magazines to report live from the Annual Festival of Science held at

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. In 2002 he was appointed by

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, the then Secretary of Education as a member of the Post-16 eLearning Strategy Taskforce. The taskforce was chaired by Steve Morrison, CEO of

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. The report was published in July 2002 under the title "Getting on with IT". In 2003 he proposed and attracted funding for an "e-Innovation Centre" at Wolverhampton University which could combine the research and development skills of the higher education sector with that of industry to promote Internet-based start-up companies. In 2005 he was appointed advisor to the UK Deputy Chief of Defence Staff to monitor the evaluation of the

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Defence Training Review initiative. In 2012 he founded the Tablet Academy as an education consultancy, teacher training, and student engagement organisation focusing on the use of technology to transform education. In 2014, he became an adjunct professor in educational innovation at Lamar University. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1994, but on 25 April 2009 he resigned as a Magistrate due to his refusal to stop reporting the outcome of public criminal hearings on Twitter. As a former serving member of the

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he is an active member of the

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and works closely with the RAF STEM Ambassadors Education outreach programme at RAF Cosford and

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. He is a former patron of

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and from 2003-2007 was Mayor of

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, in Telford where he lived until 2012 when he relocated to

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in the

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. Today he works as Chairman of Tablet Academy International remotely from his home in Fuerteventura and is engaged in a number of projects, including working with the Ministry of Education to transform education in

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.$174m Online Initiative Launched in Guyana
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"Prof. Molyneux to run ADL Partnership lab in UK"
US Government ADL Lab Announcement, 2001
"Prof. Steve Molyneux to advise Singapore Government"
Press Release, ''The Learning Lab'', November 2001
"Top Professor appointed to Education Taskforce"
University of Wolverhampton, 2002
"Senior academic calls for UK e-Learning standard"
Computing, August 2002
"Broadband Visions in Education and Training"
Broadband Stakeholders Group, 2004
"Leading UK Academic speaks out on UKeU"
Computing Magazine, March 2004
"Public sector e-Learning back in the limelight"
Computing Press, Aug 2004
"Implementing 3D Based Games in UK Secondary Schools"
White Paper, 2005

Hansard, House of Commons, Jan 2007
"£45 Billion Schools IT Plan Fails to impress"
Computing Magazine, April 2008
"Renowned society reporter and international blogger Janie Davies reveals her Top 10 Cool IT People"
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