Stephen Molyneux (born 24 February 1955) is a British educational technologist whose work as Microsoft 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 ATARI 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 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 West Midlands region.[1]
For this pioneering work, in 1994 he was appointed a Fellow of the British computer giant ICL alongside other distinguished ICL Fellows
In 1995, whilst holding the Microsoft Chair of Advanced Learning Technologies at the University of Wolverhampton, he developed one of the first Virtual Learning Environments in the UK.[2]
In 1996, as a British Association for the Advancement of Science media fellow
External links
- "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"
References
- BroadNet and Change at the University of Wolverhampton, Journal of Research on Technology in Education.2002^
- History of the VLE^
- Media Fellow Alumni Alumni list 1987-2020^