Professor Steve Molyneux

Revered as one of the nation’s leading experts in the use of ICT (information and communication technology) in education and training, Professor Steve Molyneux is acknowledged to be one of the fathers of e-learning in the UK and is currently Director of the Learning Lab.

Professor Molyneux has already worked successfully with Rhema on high level strategic assignments and has now greatly strengthened the professional relationship. He is working very closely with the team as Senior e-learning Advisor and Strategist - bringing his enormous knowledge and experience in this field to Rhema’s development of e-learning as an increasingly important element of blended learning and development solutions.

Professor Molyneux’ personal consultancy roles include Special Advisor to the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff within the MoD on training and education. He was a member of the Learning and Skills Council’s UK Distributed Electronic Learning Group; the Digital Content Group of the DTI; the DFES Post-16 e-learning task force; and a founder member of the Broadband Stakeholder Group Executive, with responsibility for the Education and Training sector. He has also advised the British Government on broadband strategies for the UK and Northern Ireland and the Scottish Parliament on meeting the needs of the Scottish digital economy.

He is consultant to a number of UK and international public and private sector organisations on the strategic use of ICT and broadband infrastructure.

Throughout the 90s his vision and his work propelled development in many aspects of e-learning and web-based knowledge management and information sharing. He founded The Learning Lab in 1999, a recognised centre of excellence dedicated to the promotion and use of IT in education, training and employment. About a million students currently benefit from the virtual learning environment – which he developed in 1995.

Since 2000, when he won the bid to provide the DFES’ ICT Research Centre (a collaboration between The Learning Lab and the University of Wolverhampton,) his intense schedule of innovation and development in his ever-broadening field has continued at an impressive pace. Just one highlight project was a tripartite video conference on human rights between children in the UK, USA and Iraq.

His public sector clients have included local and national Government in the UK, the Royal Navy, the Victoria and Albert Museum; and in the private sector - Deutsche Telekom, AEG and Siemens in Germany and Microsoft, Creative Labs and HSBC in the UK.