Albin Wallace Biography

After spending 25 years working in the field of ICT and education in Australia, Albin was employed for 3 years as ICT and Learning Technologies Manager of the South East England Virtual Education Action. With a firm belief that teachers are the key to achieving sustained ecological change in schools, he coordinated ICT professional development within SEEVEAZ. Since May 2003 he has been Group ICT Director for the United Church Schools Trust and the United Learning Trust before becoming their Director of Educational Development and Technologies in 2008. Albin is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Institute for IT Training, NAACE and the Institute of Directors. He has a doctorate in education from the University of Sheffield where his thesis was on the formal and informal uses of the internet for learning. He has spoken at a number of international conferences on education and ICT.