Summary
Tom Power is a Professor at The Open University with 14 years of higher-education experience and over two decades in teaching and educational leadership focused on technology-enhanced pedagogy. He designs and leads large-scale, evidence-driven interventions that strengthen teacher practice and improve learning for marginalized, lower-income communities across multiple countries. His research combines collaborative, participatory methods with a distinctive pedagogic framework and has influenced public policy, won international awards, and attracted £1.7M in external funding in the five years to 2023. Notably, as PI of the EdTech-Hub CHILD project he partnered with NGOs to mobilize community volunteers using mobile-delivered activities, scaling alternative learning for tens of thousands of children during the pandemic. A Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he brings practical classroom experience and system-level insight to bridge micro, meso and macro educational change.
14 years of coding experience
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at University of Sussex