Dragan Gasevic and Jeff Haywood have been awarded a European Erasmus+ grant to study and support policy development for learning analytics in European higher education.
Working with six European partners, the project will take a participatory approach to help develop learning analytics strategy and policy in universities. The project will run 2016-18.
For more information, check out the project page.
We have an excellent collection of seminars coming up next year, to include talks from Celia Lury, Cormack O'Keefe, Keri Facer, Ben Williamson and Cathrine Hasse. These colleagues will talk about work of urgent contemporary interest: educational data and its production, digital methods, community engagement and posthumanism.
An important new report has been released on new ways of teaching and learning and their implications for higher education policy. With Jeff Haywood as lead author, the report presents the findings of a study funded by European Commission during 2014-15.
Andrew Manches (with Judy Robertson, Gnanathusharan Rajendran and Peter McKenna) has been awarded a research incentive grant by the Carnegie Trust to investigate the role of embodiment in the way individuals think about basic Computing concepts.
At the Children and Technology group we are always thinking about how to communicate our research to the public!
In case you missed the Fringe in August, the Children and Technology Group’s Dr Andrew Manches supported the BBC during their Digital Weekend by sharing some computing activities.
We want to contribute ever more to events like this in the future, so if you are interested, keep posted on our news feed for information about upcoming appearances.
