Chris Edwards is a Senior Lecturer at The Open University's (OU) Institute of Educational Technology (IET) with 30 years' experience creating curriculum and teaching at the OU, including modules in the university's Masters in Online Teaching. For eight years he held institutional responsibility for the coherence of curriculum contributing to all the qualifications approved in that period and was the academic lead of the university's project reviewing the process for developing and approving curriculum.

Over the last seven years he has been involved in several AI and GenAI projects. Chris led the university project evaluating the potential of GenAI to contribute to all aspects of developing and delivering curriculum, and has trialled the use of the technology in the creation of new modules. He is contributing to a project on the potential for student facing use of the technology. Chris is an experienced co-investigator on international projects including those with an AI focus.