• Why do many teachers and lecturers feel reluctant to use IT in their courses? Is it just a reluctance to try out new things, are they afraid of technology, or do they have justifiable reasons based on their teaching practices?
  
• Are the Government and educational institutions doing enough to support and promote e-learning, or do they actually hinder its adoption? Are things like traditional exam methods to blame? Or is it the measures by which teachers are externally audited?

Beyond the Red Tape debate focused on the role that technology should play in our schools and universities. Key speakers included:

• Niel McLean (Executive director, BECTA)
• Claire Fox (Director, Institute of Ideas)
• Dom Antony Sutch (Radio 4 presenter and former headmaster)
• Keri Facer (Director of learning research, NESTA Futurelab)
• Mary Barker (MD, AoC NILTA)
• Dr John Cook (Principal research fellow, London Metropolitan University)
• Martin Ripley ( Head of e-Strategy, QCA)

Organised by the Learning Technologies Group, OUCS, University of Oxford.
Sponsored by the JISC Committee for Learning and Teaching.

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As in previous years, this conference took place the day after the annual Oxford University Shock Conference

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