Faculty Member, Institute of Educational Technology
Research Fellow, Educational Futures
Thesis Title: The construction of shared knowledge through asynchronous dialogue
About
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Research fellow at the Open University, focused on educational futures, learning analytics, new literacies and online social learning.
In more detail
I am currently a full-time research fellow in the UK Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology, focused on Educational Futures. I work as research lead on the SocialLearn team, developing and researching initiatives to improve pedagogical understanding of learning in online settings, to design analytics to support the assessment of learning in these settings, and to extend the university’s ability to support learning in an open world. I also lead work on Enquiry Blogger, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to develop blogging tools that support enquiry learning.
For the last five years I have been a core team member of the Open University’s Schome project, working with UK and US teenagers online and in the virtual reality world of Second Life to develop ‘an education system for the information age’. During the same period, I have carried out a longitudinal study of Research Blogging together with two colleagues, which has twice reported results to date at ALT-C.
In addition, I am currently research lead on Learning to Know, Knowing to Learn. Funded by the university’s Children and Young People Research Group, this study is investigating children’s use of online tools to support informal collaborative learning.
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