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



Best Poster Award for APT STAIRS Print
The APT STAIRS project, a Bloomsbury Colleges collaboration with the LKL as a project partner, won the Best Poster Award at the ALT-C 2009 Conference in Manchester. The winning poster was designed by project officer Caroline Bell and project manager Sarah Sherman.
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Formative e-Assessment: read all about it! Print
On April 28th the formative e-assessment project had a very successful dissemination event at the LKL. The room was packed, and another 15 people or so participated remotely via Elluminate.
Mary Webb, Denise Whitelock, Linda McGuigan, Aliy Fowler and Stylianos Hatzipanagos† -
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APT STAIRS moves up another step Print
JISC has provided additional funding to extend the APT STAIRS project, to which LKL's Tim Neumann contributes. The team is now working with the University of London's External Programme to explore the introduction of new technologies using the APT model.
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