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 ...

The aim is to develop a coherent institutional approach to AP(E)L, create and publish online guidance and exemplification material as well as a framework for prospective students to gain cre...

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...

A project that explores the links between professional education, vocational education and work-based learning conceptually and empirically, and identifies the implications of those links for the ...

Through liaison between course leaders from the University of London [Anita Pincas, Institute of Education] and two Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning: WLE-Centre for Excellence at t...

Dynamic Concept Analysis (DCA) is a method for integrating information into conceptual models that was first developed by Kontiainen when considering concepts of interaction between students and sup...

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...

This research project examines in greater detail the present EdD participants’and graduates’ perceptions of work-based learning and their understanding of how change is brought about i...

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...

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...

This project revisits, extends and elaborates work that was originally begun by Michael Young and myself in the Accreditation of the Work-based Learning of the FE Teacher/Trainer of the Future (ED ...

By using LCLL VLE, programme managers will be able to increase the work-based learning ethos in their learning structures. 

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...

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...

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 ...

This project will investigate the nature and effectiveness of support structures and mechanisms available to in-service trainee teachers in colleges of further education to enable them to develop ...

This project conducts two detailed, qualitative case studies of teachers who are taking a major role in the development of learning and teaching with technologies in their schools. It examines ...

Graduates from the IOE Master of Teaching (MTeach) course formed the basis for a previous WLE study on the merit and impact of various forms of professional learning on teachers' professional pr...

The Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP) is a work-based route to Qualified Teacher Status. Participants work to an individual training plan to gather a portfolio of evidence against a series of s...

This ESRC study examines the role of different patterns of classroom interaction between teachers and students in facilitating and/or impeding change of classroom practice towards greater dialog...

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&...