Miles Berry is senior lecturer in ICT Education at Roehampton University, where he lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate teacher training programmes. His principle research interest is the role of online communities in teachers' professional formation and development. Prior to this, he spent 18 years working in four schools, most recently as a primary head teacher, leading the implementation of open source software including Ubuntu, Moodle, Elgg and Drupal. He is community manager of Open Source Schools, a community of practice for educators and technologists using open source software in UK education, funded initially by Becta. He is vice-chair of Naace and a fellow of the BCS and the RSA.

His talk explores the application of open source ideas beyond software, looking at how ideas of creativity, collaboration and community can engage learners and teachers together in a more dynamic, organic mode of education which nevertheless proves educationally sound, practically robust and remarkably cost effective.