Research

LKL Research Themes

Automating support for learning, collaboration and knowledge building

ResearchNew digital technologies and media are giving rise to increasing volumes and varieties of information, presenting new opportunities for learning and knowledge. We seek to make this information more useful by researching and developing techniques for managing, integrating and personalising it. We are designing, building and critically evaluating systems that help people to understand the mass of information that surrounds them, and to generate knowledge from this information. We seek to model and deploy the intelligence and knowledge that enables computing systems to provide personalised support to learners for the range of activities they engage in, individually or collaboratively.

 

Understanding how digital technologies and media affect educational practice, work, culture and society

ResearchWe are investigating and evaluating the cultural forms and modes of engagement between people and ideas that are fostered by the digital world, to understand the implications for formal and informal learning. We are designing technology and media-enhanced approaches to learning, including innovative uses of ambient, immersive and mobile technologies. We are exploring the differences between ënewí and ëolderí media. We are analysing how children and adults use media in different contexts and how they learn in and from these new environments.

 

Developing innovative methodologies for investigation of the use and effect of digital technologies

ResearchTo optimise the use of digital technologies for learning, we are developing and applying methodologies which match the complexity of a field that must use the science of human learning in order to inform the design and evaluation of digital environments and systems.

 

 

 

Research News



New Research Project: GeoSciTeach Print

thumb-research_02.pngNew Research Project: GeoSciTeach: a teacher-based geo-spatial application for orchestrating scientific fieldwork activity.

This project is funded under the geospatial strand of the JISC Infrastructure for Education and Research Programme. It aims to increase the use of geospatial tools in teacher training education, inform future requirements for their integration into teacher training curriculum, by developing, deploying and evaluating development of an innovative application using modern mobile smart phones to enhance science teacher trainee's geospatial skills, and provide effective tools for integrating GIS into science teaching practice.

The project is led by Sara Price along with George Roussos, Carey Jewitt and Paul Davies.
 
New research project: The role of professional networks in supporting maths teachers Print

maths_teachers.jpgA team of researchers from the London Knowledge Lab have been commissioned to assess the effectiveness and impact of the teacher/school networks that have been supported by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics.

The project will investigate the factors that can be associated with the sustainability and success of professional networks, looking to provide evidence for how similar networks can
be established and sustained in the future.


The project is led by Neil Selwyn, along with John Potter, Richard Noss and Natasha Gouseti.

 
Innovative Teaching and Learning - an international study Print
neil_selwyn.jpgThe London Knowledge Lab is pleased to be acting as the UK research partners in a new international project called Innovative Teaching and Learning Research (ITL). ITL Research is sponsored by Microsoft's Partners in Learning, and investigates and measures teachers' adoption of innovative classroom teaching practices and the degree to which those practices provide students with learning experiences that promote the skills they will need to live and work in the 21st Century.

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