Stephen Murgatroyd has worked extensively in open and distance learning since 1972. At the Open University (UK), Athabasca University (Canada), in corporate training and consulting for Axia NetMedia, as a consultant to The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Commonwealth of Learning, Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University of Dubai, Middlesex University (UK) and many others. He has advised governments on educational policy in Chile, Paraguay, UAE, Australia and New Zealand. Most recently he has been advising the New Zealand Open Polytechnic on its transformation agenda. In the UAE he is working with both the Ministry of Possibilities and the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research on the future of technology enabled learning, especially focusing on Smart Skills and the role of AI and augmented / virtual reality in reimagining learning