Two new Occasional Papers are now available to download through the WLE Website.

The new papers are:

Chris Devereux' Beyond the curriculum: The positive effects of Continual Professional Development for a group of post-16 science teachers and Marianne Coleman's Women only networks: Four case studies.

The journal Educação, Sociedade & Culturas [Education, Society & Culture] (www.fpce.up.pt/ciie/revistaesc/en) is an academic journal that aims to contribute to the development of Social and Education Sciences.

This call is for the special issue of the journal on Evaluation, its Policies and Practices (Vol. 32). Professor Guy Berger (Emeritus Professor of University of Paris VIII, France) and Professor Manuela Terrasêca (Associate Professor of Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of University of Porto, Portugal) are the guest editors.

It is intended that this thematic issue will provide an opportunity for renewal, expansion and deepening of perspectives on evaluation.

Possible topics:

Policy evaluation
Evaluation and regulation of education
Quality and evaluation

Deadline

Submission of proposals: July 26, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 22, 2010

For more information, please download the official call for papers:

•  esc32_callforpapers2010 149.14 Kb

This internal evaluation, carried out by Dr Vincent Carpentier, was independent and based on primary data collection from all stakeholders from which some of the examples and quotes are drawn.
Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from a range of sources including:

• Desk research: a review of the documents which delineate the process of construction and development of the WLE Centre’s identity within the CETL framework. These include documents which outline the maturation of the Centre’s thinking and its articulation as well as the ongoing records of the activities of the Centre (minutes from meetings, statistics and documents related to the variety of outputs, research projects and dissemination activities, proposal/project sheets/reports);
• Observation: participation in activities of the Centre and regular attendance at internal meetings including staff, associates and management but also meetings with staff and students of the Institute; attendance at the dissemination events organised by the Centre (conferences, seminars, book launch);
• Questionnaire: e-mails were sent to staff involved in Centre projects over the years, users and stakeholders to explore stakeholder perspectives and perceptions (45 respondents)
• Follow up semi-structured interviews of technical and academic staff, associates, students associated with the Centre but also from other parts of the Institute and other stakeholders (more than 25 interviews).

The collection, processing and interpretation of data were carried out with particular attention to ethical issues in conformity with the BERA Guidelines for evaluators (UK Evaluation Society).

The evaluation is structured based on a number of specific questions posed by HEFCE and investigates the successes and shortcomings of the WLE Centre and the overall CETL initiative.

• Download the full document
  •  wle_centre_final_self_evaluation 1.78 Mb

The London Mobile Learning Group (http://www.londonmobilelearning.net ) is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the online
journal Medienpädagogik (http://www.medienpaed.com/ ) on mobile, location-based and context-aware learning to be published in late 2010.

Papers are invited in English or German. Expressions of interest of up to 500 words should be submitted to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it by May 23,2010.  

For details, please see http://www.londonmobilelearning.net/downloads/call-for-papers_special-issue_ MedienPaed_m-learning.pdf