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.

 

 

 

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Taking on the Teenagers Print
research thumbnail 1A team lead by Professor Rose Luckin from the London Knowledge Lab is working as part of an interdisciplinary collaboration on the EPSRC-funded ‘Taking on the Teenagers' project. 
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Integrated Institutional Technologies for Learning, Teaching and Management Print
research thumbnail 2Carey Jewitt and Neil Selwyn are directing this Becta-funded project about the use of learning platforms and associated technologies in primary and secondary schools in England. The aim is to identify best practice and evidence of effective use.
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Weaving Communities of Practice Print
research thumbnail 3An AHRC-funded project entitled Weaving Communities of Practice has started in July 2009, involving Sven Helmer and partners at ILCA in Bolivia and CILAVS at Birkbeck. The goal of the project is to develop a knowledge base to store 3D Andean weaving textile patterns together with rich cultural and historic context information. This will allow researchers to access information more quickly, as material for study is currently only available in a piecemeal fashion and without contextual information.
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