GOODMAN, Lizbeth
Founder and Director, SMARTlab Digital Media Institute (UK)
Session: Innovation - Special Needs Education
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
- 11.00-12.30
Lizbeth is Director of Research for Futurelab Education. She is also Legacy Chair of Creative Technology Innovation at the University of East London, where the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute (which she founded 16 years ago) and the MAGIC Multimedia and Games Innovation Centre and Gamelab are currently based.
Lizbeth and her teams specialise in developing ground-up technology solutions for universal and special learning needs and for lifelong learning in disadvantaged communities worldwide. Lizbeth is known as an expert in Digital Inclusion, including learning models for communities at risk. She is an award-winning advocate of community-based ethical learning and teaching models using interactive tools and games to inspire and engage learners of all ages.
Originally trained in Literature, Drama and Philosophy, and active for many years as a professional performer and TV-radio-convergent media researcher/presenter, she has published widely in the areas of Digital Inclusion, performance technologies, e-learning, connected learning, embodied learning, social networking for community engagement, social entrepreneurship models in ICT, and games for learning. In this regard, she co-developed several groundbreaking teaching and learning tools and games with significant take up worldwide, and which have led to the foundation of several charities for women and children at risk.
She has written and edited 13 books and many peer-reviewed articles and broadcasts. She also founded and directs the world-renowned Practice-based PhD Programme in Creative Technology Innovation.
She currently holds the honorary posts of Senior Researcher in Digital Inclusion for Microsoft Community Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility, International Research Advisor for RITSEC in Cairo, and advisor to the developing Assistive Technology Centre of ITC Qatar in Doha. In the not for profit sector, she is founder and President of the Safespaces.net (SafetyNET): a charity active internationally in the fight to help stop violence against women and children, and is also an active board member of SpecialEffect: a charity making learning games for young people with special needs. She sits on many national and international task forces and judging/assessment panels for local and international governments, for the European Commission, et al.
She won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteer Service to Women and Children in 2003, has had her work featured as Best Practice at several world summits, and was awarded the Best Woman in Academic and the Public Sector, and Outstanding Woman in Technology by Blackberry Rim in 2008.
Lizbeth and her teams specialise in developing ground-up technology solutions for universal and special learning needs and for lifelong learning in disadvantaged communities worldwide. Lizbeth is known as an expert in Digital Inclusion, including learning models for communities at risk. She is an award-winning advocate of community-based ethical learning and teaching models using interactive tools and games to inspire and engage learners of all ages.
Originally trained in Literature, Drama and Philosophy, and active for many years as a professional performer and TV-radio-convergent media researcher/presenter, she has published widely in the areas of Digital Inclusion, performance technologies, e-learning, connected learning, embodied learning, social networking for community engagement, social entrepreneurship models in ICT, and games for learning. In this regard, she co-developed several groundbreaking teaching and learning tools and games with significant take up worldwide, and which have led to the foundation of several charities for women and children at risk.
She has written and edited 13 books and many peer-reviewed articles and broadcasts. She also founded and directs the world-renowned Practice-based PhD Programme in Creative Technology Innovation.
She currently holds the honorary posts of Senior Researcher in Digital Inclusion for Microsoft Community Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility, International Research Advisor for RITSEC in Cairo, and advisor to the developing Assistive Technology Centre of ITC Qatar in Doha. In the not for profit sector, she is founder and President of the Safespaces.net (SafetyNET): a charity active internationally in the fight to help stop violence against women and children, and is also an active board member of SpecialEffect: a charity making learning games for young people with special needs. She sits on many national and international task forces and judging/assessment panels for local and international governments, for the European Commission, et al.
She won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteer Service to Women and Children in 2003, has had her work featured as Best Practice at several world summits, and was awarded the Best Woman in Academic and the Public Sector, and Outstanding Woman in Technology by Blackberry Rim in 2008.
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