Dr Peter Twining is a senior lecturer at the Open University and the Director of Vital, an £8.1million DfE funded programme that is supporting practitioners in enhancing their teaching of IT/Computing as specialist subjects and the use of ICT across the curriculum. Peter was the Head of Department of Education at the Open University and then the Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology. His career has focused on issues to do with the management of educational change and enhancing education, informed by understandings of the potential of ICT. His passion is schome (not school - not home - schome - the education system for the information age). Useful links: The Vital Programme: http://www.vital.ac.uk/ The Schome Initiative: http://www.schome.ac.uk/ Peter’s somewhat out of date online CV: http://www.schome.ac.uk/wiki/User:PeterT/CV