James Fraser-Murison catches up with EdTech Shared at BETT to give us a 10min taster on the incredible growth of the Esports in education community and how he has developed a successful Pearson BTEC curriculum to teach students the skills needed to access this fast growing global vocation.  James is a national award winner of Innovation, Esports Director at Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke & National Trainer for Pearson for the esports BTEC. James has presented as a speaker at the Festival of Education, BETT, EGX and NASEF mentor. He's the manager of the esports team, the QMSamuari and current NASEF mentor. James's other role is the business development manager and esports educational consultant for Yoyotech who build esports gaming arenas around the UK. 

May 2021 saw the UK’s first-ever sixth form esports floor open based on grants and funding of 300K which James helped raise and personally oversee the build of.

James is an avid computer gamer, especially with his son Noah. Loves Thai food and Netflix (in that order) and passed his cycling proficiency test on the first go 😉. He’s been in education for 17 years, mostly at management level and is luckily enough to be asked to speak about all things esports and education across the globe.

Connect with James on Twitter here - https://twitter.com/FraserEsports You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com