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TEL’s Director Professor Richard Noss presented at 24th April’s JISC Learning and Teaching Practice Experts group meeting in Birmingham. The event, led by JISC’s e-learning Programme Manager Sarah Knight also featured updates on JISC’s work in pedagogy and assessment and a number of workshops. More on the JISC Learning and Teaching Practice Experts group Hashtags: . . . → Read More: JISC Experts 2012 feature TEL TEL’s Inter-Life project will present at the forthcoming European Congress on Educational Research in September in Cadiz, Spain. The paper, entitled ‘Evaluation of the novel Inter-Life virtual world as an innovative technology to support Transition to University’ will be presented by Dr Alison Devlin. More on Inter-Life 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 ‘Teaching as a Design Science’. The TEL Learning Designer project’s Professor Diana Laurillard launched a new book on 30th March entitled ‘Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology’. Extract from description: ‘Teachers in the twenty-first century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now . . . → Read More: New Laurillard book The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has been conducting a review of Human Computer Interaction research in the UK over the past few months. The review has now concluded and reports have now been published on the EPSRC website: The EPSRC Shaping Capability landscape has also been completed and published in full: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ourportfolio/Pages/default.aspx A rationale statement . . . → Read More: EPSRC HCI Review report 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 ( #edtech ) Smart Technology Research Centre, Computational Intelligence Research Group School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom Two 3 year, fully funded PhD research studentships are available to work on a range of exciting research areas within the framework of a large EU funded INFER project (http://www.infer.eu). The INFER project research programme focuses on pervasively . . . → Read More: 2 Computer Science PhD posts available Working together EPSRC sees working together across the ICT research landscape and with other disciplines as a priority for their ICT Theme. The potential for greater communication and collaboration between research areas in ICT and with other disciplines has been highlighted during engagement with researchers and users in this theme. Mapping of the portfolio highlights dependencies between . . . → Read More: EPSRC ICT Theme Working Together *Closes 23rd March* An opportunity for learners, support staff, technical teams and managers to get early access to free text to speech support. What is text to speech (TTS) software? TTS allows learners to listen to documents as they read them or save them as mp3s for later listening. A number of free text to speech tools exist . . . → Read More: TechDis Voices: a call for BETA testers The Institute of Physics and the Economic and Social Research Council wish to support additional research into subject-based teaching and learning in Higher Education, in this case in Physics. They have therefore agreed to support two research fellows, one based in a physics department, and one based in a social sciences department on a one year joint . . . → Read More: ESRC/IOP Fellowships |
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