Nigel Ecclesfield is an independent researcher exploring learning, teaching and the use of digital technologies for learning, having worked in the English post-compulsory education sectors from 1978 to 2003 and then national technology agencies to 2016 as well as being an inspector. Nigel has managed and published research since 1986, including the production of national statistics for Government on the adoption and use of digital technologies in English post-compulsory education and research and project management in U.K. and European settings, contributing to books journals and conference proceedings. Since 2005 he has worked in partnership with Fred Garnett, publishing extensively, including the authorship of their book “ Digital Learning: Architectures of Participation” published in 2020 which explores their theories of learning in digital contexts and the institutional consequences of Heutagogy and learner-generated contexts.