My name is Graham Attwell and I am director of a company called Pontydysgu. Pontydysgu – in English, ‘The Bridge to Learning’ – is an independent research institute based in Wales. The present Director, Graham Attwell, established the institute in January 1989. Pontydysgu carries out a wide range of different policy and research activities embracing education, vocational education and training and Information and Communications Technologies, regional economic development and the theory and practice of evaluation. However, the main focus of the organisation’s work is development and research in the development and use of ICT for learning in a European and transnational context.
Pontydysgu has partners in every European country. Additionally, Director Graham Attwell is a Gastwisenshaftlichter (Visiting Fellow) at the Institut Technik und Bildung (ITB) at the University of Bremen.