Gill Ferrell
Gill Ferrell is Executive Director 1EdTech Europe Her role is providing strategic direction and nurturing development of a non-profit community co-creating a trusted & interoperable edtech ecosystem built on open standards. For over 30 years Gill has worked primarily in higher education and also across lifelong learning. She has managed system implementation and business change within a university setting in areas such as student records, finance, HR/payroll & research and led research projects in areas such as assessment, learning design, course management, learner records, and learning analytics. Gill loves the collaborative spirit of education and the willingness to share experiences and lessons learned for mutual benefit
Session
The education sector is a significant supporter of open source philosophy and creator of tools. However widespread adoption of the available tools is only possible when they can be easily integrated into the wider learning ecosystem.
This talk will look at the role of open standards in facilitating the development and growth of the open learning ecosystem.
Find out how the 1EdTech community collaborates on the development and governance of the open standards that underpin billions of learning interactions every year. We will also look at some new developments to make it easier to support European use cases in the global ecosystem.