Profile of Dr Richard Eden

Dr Richard Eden is the Assistant Director-General, Strategic Information and Technologies within the Queensland Government's Department of Education, Training and the Arts.

Richard is responsible for leadership in policy, investment and strategic direction for both learning and management environments as well as business transformation and educational reform made possible via automation.

Since 2002, Dr Eden has been the planner, architect and deliverer of the Queensland Government's Smart Classrooms^TM strategy. The Smart Classrooms^TM initiative includes:

• the enterprise ICT platform across 1300 state schools in Queensland
• standardising business processes and providing common software solutions for student management, finance management and school management across 65,000 teachers and administrators working in those schools
• developing and providing the digital learning materials and learning management environments for modern eLearning
• ensuring the workforce is competent in digital pedagogy
• providing flexible learning spaces, both physical and virtual.

Prior to this, Richard was the Chief Information Officer responsible for the State's land ownership, water, soil, vegetation and climate data for over a decade.

Dr Eden was responsible for building and implementing the State's Automated Titling System in the early 1990s, delivering full electronic conveyancing and searching for the property sector.

As a surveyor, Richard was instrumental in introducing GIS in the mid-late 1980s and lead cross-government spatial data initiatives across Queensland for more than a decade during the 1990s.

Richard has consulted widely across many industry sectors on automation potential, strategies and implementation, including in Asia with the Harvard Institute for International Development.

Recently, Dr Eden gave a presentation on positioning learning for the 21st Century, which includes an overview of the Smart Classrooms ^TM initiative.

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