Project Leaders
Donald Peterson and Jan Derry

Steering Group
Bruno Bachimont, Kristof Nyiri, Mike Sharples

Project Details
Initially funded for 18 months till mid 2005 with an overall budget of ?90k

Project Web Site

The Philosophy of Technology-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group
The aim of this philosophical SIG (funded by Kaleidoscope European Network of Excellence in technology-enhanced learning) is essentially practical: to produce understanding of the significance which new technologies have for knowledge and learning, so as to enable us better to steer these towards benefit in the e-society.

One focus of the SIG, therefore, is in the use of ICT in formal education. Of equal interest, however, are questions arising from a broad conception of ICT (including the new wave of ambient technologies: ubiquitous, semantic, adaptive and agent systems), and a broad conception of learning (including informal and mobile scenarios, work, leisure, tourism and public information) as affected by these technologies.

The strategic objective of the SIG is to help to establish PTEL (Philosophy of Technology Enhanced Learning) as a productive and contemporary research activity in the EU and the ERA (European Research Area). To this end, the SIG will draw together existing centres and researchers, it will emphasise new and emerging technologies (such as the Semantic Web), and it will investigate frameworks which address the changing natures of knowledge and learning in the e-society.

Our Core Participants

• Professor Kristof Nyiri, Dr Zsuzsanna Kondor, Istvan Danka, Viktor Bed - Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary;
• Dr Don Peterson, Dr Jan Derry, Professor Michael Young - London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London, UK;
• Professor Bruno Bachimont - University of Technology of Compiegne, France;
• Professor Mike Sharples, Dr Russell Beale - Centre for Education Technology and Distance Learning University of Birmingham, UK