LKL Research Themes
Automating support for learning, collaboration and knowledge building
 New 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
 We 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
 To 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
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Cornerstone Project |
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 This project, directed in the LKL by Professors Richard Noss and Celia Hoyles, forms part of a proposal agreed by the Li Ka Shing Foundation to fund SRI International to investigate and scale the use of their proven effective mathematics materials that exploit the innovative use of digital technology for learning mathematics across several mathematical units. LKL will be working with SRI International to deliver this programme in the UK, and is responsible for providing local expertise in the modification, implementation, research and evaluation of the mathematics materials and software platform.
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New articles from MiGen |
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 TEL's MiGen project has two new articles available online detailing their work using artificial intelligence to help students understand algebra. Read on for details.
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ESRC Follow-on to ECHOES |
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 Kaska Porayska-Pomsta is a co-PI on the ESRC follow on project (led by Dr Karen Guldberg, Birmingham University), whose overarching aim is to contribute to shaping the future landscape of technology use for children on the autism spectrum in the classroom, and through this to contribute to educational advancement, emotional wellbeing and positive outcomes for children.
This project draws upon four prestigiously funded and recently completed multi-disciplinary Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) projects entitled Reactickles, Somantics, Cospatial and ECHOES (led by Kaska Porayska-Pomsta). The aim is to work closely with children and teachers in six different schools to explore how these technologies can make a measurable difference to practice in the classroom. The methodology focuses on a participatory approach using digital story creation and the creation of a wider TEL online community of practice where teachers, parents and other schools' staff will be able to create and access resources to help them in their practice. These resources will include an online workshop, guidance documents on how to use the technologies, with suggestions of how to link with the curriculum and with assessment. The online portal will be open to all schools with the aim to inspire, motivate and engage staff in using innovative technologies to meet the needs of not only children on the autism spectrum, but all children.
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