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A study of e-learners’ experiences
The project has won a research award from the Centre for Distance Education, University of London. The growth of e-learning programmes which offer post-graduate professional awards is a significant ...
Jeff Bezemer   Caroline Daly   Norbert Pachler   Jon Pickering   CDE award   e-learning   evaluation   experiences   narrative   pedagogy   professional learning   2005/6   Final Report   Presentation Slides   Further Publications  
And don’t forget to bring your mobile: Informing educational target groups about mobile learning
This project focuses on the dissemination of concepts and projects for mobile learning conducted inside and outside school, with the aim to provide support for educational professionals and stak...
Judith Seipold   mobile learning   resource   sustainability   2008/9   2009/10   Final Report   Websites  
Assessment of Work-Related Courses
The aim of this research is to review the assessment of work related courses such as the EdD in order to evaluate their fitness-for-purpose. The first stage is to review existing assessment requ...
Andrew Brown   Eileen Carnell   assessment   professional learning   2005/6   Final Report  
Changing Teaching
This report presents some of the data arising from a research project into graduates of the Institute of Education’s innovative practice-­based Master in Teaching pro...
Ambrose Hogan   continuing professional development   experiences   leadership   motivation   2009/10   Final Report  
Classroom as crucible and catalyst: visual learning case studies
This project will build on the existing 2008/9 WLE project Visual Learning resource Seeing the Meaning: the use of Display Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learning. Classroom examples of best p...
John Cuthell   Christina Preston   case studies   e-learning   multimodality   pedagogy   resource   video   2009/10   Final Report   Websites  
Competence development and workplace learning
The project focuses on workplace learning in the UK and Ireland with particular reference to the problem of competence development.
Karen Evans   Natasha Kersh   accreditation   adult learning   continuing professional development   motivation   2005/6   Final Report  
Developing a database of literature related to WBL
The project aimed to develop a detailed bibliography/database of WBL resources including web links and other relevant academic sources in the area of work-based learning. The database was reviewed...
Natasha Kersh   Tim Neumann   research methods   resource   2006/7   2009/10   Final Report   Websites  
Developing a pedagogy of social justice to improve UK apprenticeships
This work will examine current cross party-policies for the UK Apprenticeship scheme and judges their effectiveness in relation to the most socially excluded. It achieves this through a litera...
Chris Devereux   assessment   pedagogy   training   young people   2009/10   Final Report  
Developing Appropriate Multimodal Pedagogies for Workbased Learning in History and Language Teaching
This project will involve the development of appropriate pedagogies in History and Language teaching and learning. The emphasis throughout will be on workplace practice and the development of pra...
Robert Ferguson   languages   learning objects   multimedia   multimodality   pedagogy   2006/7   2007/8   2008/9   2009/10   Final Report   Further Publications  
Developing Different Approaches to Mentor Training including the Mentor’s own workplace
This project aims to examine further previous research where a theoretical framework of mentoring styles has been developed. The development of this framework identified a need to respond to the ...
Fiona Rodger   continuing professional development   mentoring   2006/7   Final Report   Further Publications  
Developing innovative assessment approaches for work-based learning and widening participation
This qualitative project will consider students' and tutors' experiences of different assessment approaches. The project will focus on award-bearing CPD modules that highlight the importance of w...
Penny Jane Burke   Phillip Kent   Tim Kent   Peter Templeton   assessment   continuing professional development   innovation   pedagogy   widening participation   2006/7   Final Report  
Experiences of education professionals
This project involves the participants who have completed the EdD programme in order to find out how the completion of the programme has affected what they have done subsequently. It enable...
Eileen Carnell   experiences   professional learning   2005/6   Final Report  
Extending our understanding of the role of mentoring and coaching
The project 'Extending our understanding of the role of mentoring and coaching to support staff learning in the workplace' is designed to extend the learning from the staff development peer mentor...
Sue Askew   Eileen Carnell   Eleanore Hargreaves   learning organisations   mentoring   peer review   professional learning   2006/7   2007/8   Final Report  
How can e-learning support work based learning for newly qualified teachers?
The NQT year is very demanding for teachers. The importance of work-­‐based professional development (PD) at this critical stage is recognised by Government. This i...
Adam Unwin   continuing professional development   e-learning   experiences   2009/10   Final Report  
ICT CPD programmes as a focus for changes in policy and practice
An international policy-orientated symposium is proposed which brings together three experts in the research, implementation and accreditation of ICT CPD programmes for the work force from Easter...
John Cuthell   Caroline Daly   Mechelle De Creane   Bozena Mannova   Jon Pickering   Christina Preston   assessment   continuing professional development   e-learning   pedagogy   2007/8   Final Report  
iGatherings: from professional theory and practice to praxis in work based teaching and learning
In this project, six WLE centre ‘iGatherings’ are proposed: simultaneous international virtual and face-to-face debates. The data will be explored to understand the growing sophist...
John Cuthell   Christina Preston   collaboration   mobile learning   pedagogy   professional learning   2009/10   Final Report  
Improving teaching and assessment using clickers
The activity funded by the WLE Centre was developed as part of the project ‘Developing strategies for translating e-­learning research into practice’ (ELRP) that...
Ruth Amos   Christina Hadjithoma-Garstka   assessment   collaboration   e-learning   observation   resource   2009/10   Final Report  
Improving work experience for young people
Taking the viewpoints and stories of young learners as our starting point, this project will provoke debate and galvanise action to drive the improvement of work experience in schools. The project ...
Norbert Pachler   experiences   motivation   school   young people   2006/7   Final Report   Presentation Slides   Further Publications  
MTeach Virtual Learning Environment & E-Learning Development
This pilot will strengthen the scope for research and development work in the area of online pedagogies on work-based programmes.
James Emmott   Norbert Pachler   Jon Pickering   e-learning   virtual learning environment   2006/7   2007/8   2008/9   2009/10   Final Report  
New conceptions of ‘expertise’ in professional education
Recent work within the sociology of scientific knowledge suggests a growing interest in the nature of ‘expertise’. Whilst not in itself an educational theory, Collins and Evans&rsqu...
Ben Kotzee   knowledge   learning process   professional learning   2009/10   Final Report  
Promises and Perils of Video-based Teacher Professional Development
Teachers are increasingly encouraged to participate in facilitated group reflection on video-recorded examples of their own classroom practice. Recent studies have shown that such collaborativ...
Adam Lefstein   Julia Snell   collaboration   continuing professional development   professional learning   video   2009/10   Final Report  
Promoting active 'assessment for learning' pedagogy using electronic voting systems
This project is designed to follow-on from a collaboration with Christina Hadjithoma-Garstka, LKL, to take forward our initial research about using electronic voting systems (EVS) to explore ho...
Ruth Amos   assessment   collaboration   e-learning   innovation   school   2009/10   Final Report  
Putting Knowledge to Work
‘Putting Knowledge to Work’ was a project that started at the WLE Centre in Year 1 and continued until 2008. It was sponsored by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Comm...
Karen Evans   David Guile   Judy Harris   curriculum   learning process   2005/6   2006/7   2007/8   Final Report   Websites   Further Publications  
Researching Medical Learning and Practice Network
The RMLP network grew from a Special Interest Group formed by students within the Doctoral School at the Institute of Education (IoE) to provide mutual support to complete ...
Viv Cook   collaboration   health & medical learning   professional learning   2009/10   Final Report   Websites  
Senior women at work: Support and challenges
The project adds an additional case study to four already completed with WLE funding in 2008, to write a book proposal on ‘Senior women at work: Support and challenges’, and then to...
Marianne Coleman   collaboration   gender   leadership   2009/10   Final Report   Further Publications  
Strategies and processes by which women in senior roles sustain and develop leadership abilities
The project will scope and identify good practice in work-based strategies and processes by which women in leadership sustain and develop their capacities and abilities. The need arises from the...
Marianne Coleman   gender   leadership   mentoring   resource   2007/8   Final Report   Further Publications  
Teachers perceptions of work-based learning
Working with ten practising teachers will be an investigation into the benefits and limitations of continuous professional development (CPD). The teachers have a range of experiences, specialisms and ...
Jon Pickering   autonomy   collaboration   continuing professional development   learning process   2005/6   Final Report  
The Low-Numeracy Website Development
This document demonstrates the development of an online collaborative environment for teachers and experts in Low Numeracy and Special Education Needs field in the context of ...
Hassan Baajour   Diana Laurillard   collaboration   e-learning   learning objects   resource   widening participation   2009/10   Final Report   Websites  
Using Video in Teacher - Teacher Feedback: Developing Professional Knowledge from Peer Observation
This study explored how teachers give other teachers post-observational feedback using video-recordings of their classroom practices. Adopting an interactional perspective it was investigated how tw...
Jeff Bezemer   continuing professional development   observation   peer review   video   2006/7   Final Report  
Work, learning and professional practice: the role of leadership apprenticeships
How leaders learn to become leaders has been an area of much research. When asked what were the key experiences in learning leadership, leaders often speak of the importance of ‘on-the-job&...
Peter Earley   continuing professional development   leadership   professional learning   2007/8   Final Report