Mike Sharples

Beyond mobile learning

Learning-enhanced environments DREAM proposal

DREAM is a new centre for groundbreaking research into Digital Reality Environments And Multimedia. Its aim is to explore how digital technologies are changing the world of work, learning, and entertainment.

Extreme learning EC NEST Adventure proposal

Extreme learning is a learning activity with real or simulated authenticity and an assessable intrinsic risk.

Context and mobile learning EPSRC proposal

Implementable theory of mobile learning

Julia Meek

A Lifecycle Approach to Evaluation

Julia MeekEducational Technology Research Group

The University of Birmingham

Structure Background-Interest in Evaluation

Evaluation Lifecycle Toolkit

Case Studies

Writing up

Evaluation of Learning Technology

Design or selection

Reflection Integration

Background - Interest in Evaluation?

Practical experience Evaluation Toolkits

CIAO! framework (OU) TILT framework Evaluation of Learning

technology project Software engineering evaluation

methods

Using the Evaluation Lifecycle Toolkit Step 1 - Project summary Step 2 - Identifying Persona Step 3 - Planning an Evaluation Step 4 - Choosing an Evaluation Method Step 5 - How to communicate your

findings Step 6 - Resource Book

Evaluation Lifecycle Toolkit

Case Studies

Three case studies Diary/Interview Grounded Theory NVivo

Trying to write up !!!

Stamatina Anastopoulou

Designing a multimodal technology to support science education

PhD research Stamatina Anastopoulou

Research Questions: how can technology support learning about

science? Where does science learners face difficulties? What is the existing contribution of technology?

how can learners’ engagement and reflection be facilitated? what is the contribution of learners’ sensory modalities?

in what ways interactions with technology can be enriched? what technological features are important? what activity-related features are important? How can we employ multiple modalities in the interaction?

Research walkthrough A comprehensive review of science learning,

learning with multimedia and mixed-reality technologies.

A categorisation of modalities and their contribution to learning.

A theory-informed framework for multimodal interactivity.

Three experimental studies to validate the framework and propose issues of significance, i.e. when multiple modalities are employed in learning,

learners’ engagement and reflection are facilitated. fundamental guidelines for any designer of

advanced learning technologies.

Giasemi Vavoula

Mobile learning, Diaries, etc.

Learning Studies(http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/vavoula/LearningStudies/index.htm)

Designing a personal learning diary –reflection tool

Applicability of learning theories to mobile learning

Thesis corrections

Doris Yang

Research Topic

Fan Doris Yang

PhD student,

Educational Technology Research Group

Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Birmingham

Research interests

ICT Technology: HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Working)

Application area: Work-based learning Team working Adult learning

Current research: Research questions: How to enable transferable skills using ICT? Research activities: Participatory observation, Interview,

individual case generation, prototype design…

Laura Naismith

Overview of Microsoft Funded Research

Laura Naismith18 March 2004

Botanic Garden eLearning

Engage visitors with context-sensitive multimedia content and interaction with experts

Deliver via wireless PDAs for visitors in the Garden and via the web for visitors at home

Support collaborative academic research with botanic gardens worldwide

Recent Progress

Conducted Focus Group

Contacted other botanic gardens

Designing a base location aware information system using GPS

CABLE: Computer Algebra Based Learning and Evaluation

Cost effective, web-based system for formative assessment in undergraduate mathematics

Automated marking allows focus to shift to question design

Feedback enhances student learning and provides information to teachers on common misconceptions

Recent Progress

Selected suitable open source VLE and CAS components

Online demo demonstrating functionality

Next step is relational database design