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The Ensemble project team at Liverpool John Moores University have recently secured funding for a project to follow up on the projects’ work on semantic technologies and case-based learning. The £25,000 project has been funded by JISC under their call for rapid innovation projects, as part of their Open Educational Resources 3 strand. The team is . . . → Read More: New open educational resources project funding for Ensemble@LJMU 30th March saw TEL contribute to a special event at the London Knowledge Lab (LKL) in collaboration with the Open University and University of Nottingham. The event aimed to forge links between those who are designing, building and using technology for learning in various sectors. The MiGen, Learning Designer and Echoes projects were among 17 demos packed . . . → Read More: Learning with technology: what the research says In the diagram below, each bubble represents a journal paper. Bubbles are colour-coded by project, and their size scaled to reflect the number of citations each has received according to Google Scholar. The data was collected 21st March 2012. Click here to view a live version of this chart, which is interactive and displays further citation . . . → Read More: TEL Projects’ journal paper citations On 9th Jan 2012, the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), the ESRC/EPSRC funded Technology Enhanced Learning programme (TEL) and Intellect (the UK trade association of the technology sector) held an invited event in London to discuss Evidence-based policy development in Learning Technology. Those taking in part included policy makers, technologists and researchers. The meeting was chaired . . . → Read More: ALT ‘evidence-based policy’ report available TEL’s hapTEL project took part in the Science Museum’s ‘Lates’ series of events on 29th February. The award-winning virtual dental workstation project team (including Dr Jonathan P San Diego and Professor Margaret Cox, pictured) participated in an evening of demonstrations of the latest medical technology for the general public. More on Science Museum Lates A recent Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Research Paper informed by TEL can be downloaded here The ‘Review of research and evaluation on improving adult literacy and numeracy skills’ (Research paper 61) was published in December 2011 and Chapter 10 on ‘Quality and effectiveness of provision: technology’ is informed by a paper submitted to BIS . . . → Read More: TEL contributes to BIS review Noss quoted in European Innovation Magazine. An article entitled ‘The classroom of the future is here’ by journalist Diane Hofkins quotes TEL’s Professor Richard Noss. “In policy terms, I think the single biggest thing is to stop thinking about technology as though we are going to insert it into a static curriculum. Digital technology is different to what . . . → Read More: Microsoft Futures article ( #edtech ) TEL’s Director Professor Richard Noss delivered a public lecture at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education on 21st February. A crowd of 450 gathered to hear Professor Noss speak on ‘Learning the Unlearnable: Teaching the Unteachable’. The lecture, part of the Dean’s Lecture Series, formed part of Professor Noss’s Miegunyah fellowship at the University . . . → Read More: Noss Melbourne Lecture Video HEA Workshop: Making the Most of Open Data in Education Studies A full-day hands-on workshop at Liverpool John Moores University, combining open data with easy-to-use visualisation tools for enhancement of Education Studies courses. The morning session will introduce developments in ‘open and linked data’ and review sources and types . . . → Read More: Open Data for Education Studies workshop Article on Personal Inquiry/nQuire project. The Institute of Engineering and Technology‘s (IET) autumn issue of Engineering and Technology Education (E&TE) features an article entitled ‘Doing science differently’ which covers the work of the TEL Personal Inquiry/nQuire project led by Professors Mike Sharples and Eileen Scanlon of the Open University. The piece’s author Stephanie Northen invokes Einstein’s ‘holy curiosity . . . → Read More: E&TE mag features TEL |
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