ICT in Education (ICTE)
The ICTE group has wide ranging research interests spanning all sectors of education and training and a wide range of technologies. Research interests include evaluation of student learning and metacognitive awareness, mainly in undergraduate science subjects. The group have considerable experience in the design, construction and evaluation (both technical and educational) of online learning environments and multimedia-enhanced-video conferencing. Over the last decade, the group has worked within the field of e Learning and has produced three fully online programmes. These programmes have been an overwhelming success for the University and have produced significant performance improvements compared to delivery using more traditional face-to-face delivery. Recent research has focused on games-based learning and Web2.0 learning environments.
Current research interests:
- games-based learning;
- application of games theory to e Learning practices;
- mLearning;
- personalised web environments (web 2.0);
- Web2.0 and learning organisations;
- informal learning environments;
- enabling technologies for content and knowledge management;
- FLOSS (open source communities);
- virtual campuses;
- reflective practice within information systems;
- eLearning theory and practice;
- integrating eLearning into undergraduate and postgraduate programmes;
- eLearning cost-effectiveness;
- approaches to blended learning;
- diagnostics for transition to University;
- dialogue analysis;
- emergent semantics;
- interoperability.
Conference Announcement
We will be running the 5th European Conference on Games-based Learning at the University of Athens in Greece from 20-21 October 2011. Details of the Conference and the Call For Papers will follow. Details of the Conference and the Call For Papers found at the Conference Website .
Future Conferences
We will be running the 6th European Conference on Games-based Learning at the University of Amsterdam and Waag Society, The Netherlands, in October 2012.