Andrew Robinson
Director of Higher Education, Cengage EMEA, UK
Andrew leads the Europe Middle East Africa division of at Cengage, a leading educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education and K–12, professional and library markets worldwide. The company provides content, personalized services and course-driven digital solutions that accelerate student engagement and transform the learning experience. Throughout his 25-year career in the education sector in educational and academic publishing and content roles, Andrew has witnessed the transition and expansion of the higher education market globally and seen the advent of technologies and how they have been used by faculty and students alike, with varying levels of success. In recent years and during his tenure at Cengage, he has seen growing evidence that what was a gradual evolution is accelerating and becoming an innovation revolution, as technology enhanced learning becomes a genuine enabler, improving tertiary teaching and learning standards globally. Only when reliable robust technology solutions, researched intensively with both faculty and students, can actually demonstrate that they can meet pedagogical needs and solve contemporary challenges around student engagement, retention, satisfaction and employability, as well as develop students’ critical thinking and ‘soft’ skills alongside their conceptual understanding and knowledge, can they be truly relevant. Based on the Cengage experience, where we put students and then faculty at the centre, and create learning experiences to build confidence and momentum towards the future students want, that time is now.