Research proposal

The Institute brings together academics, researchers and students who recognise the importance of developing interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the complex processes involved in human learning.
The Learning Science Research Centre is a partner research centre at our China campus, under the direction of Dr Don Peterson. The two institutes are carrying out a joint programme of research into cross-cultural learning and the design of new technologies for distance learning and knowledge sharing.
Date PI Co-I Collaborators Project Title Project Funder

2007-10 Sharples
Ainsworth
Benford
Crook
O‘Malley
Open University
Scanlon (Co-PI)
Conole
Jones
Littleton
Mulholland
Personal Inquiry (PI):Designing for Evidence-based Inquiry Learning across Formal and Informal Settings
ESRC /EPSRC

2007-08 Crook
Harrison Fisher
Sharples MMU
Lewin
IOE
Luckin
Web2.0 Technologies for Learning at Key Stages 3 and 4BECTA

2007-09
Ainsworth
Kansas University (PI)
Michigan
Northwestern
Understanding the Tree of Life project NSF (US)

2007-09 Burnett Sharples, M.
Sharples, S.
Wyeth
HP Technology in HE HP Labs

2007-08 Hartnell-Young
Mobiles in Secondary SchoolsBECTA

2007 Sharples
Kaleidoscope Mobile Learning SIGEU

2006-07 Sharples Pemberton
Windrum
Concept Demonstrator for children‘s second language learningSharp Labs Europe Ltd

2006-08
Sharples Birmingham
Woolley (PI)
Mobile Learning Tools for children with life-threatening allergiesCadbury Schweppes

2006-07 Sharples
Kaleidoscope Network ExcellenceEU

2006-07 Hartnell-Young
Mobile LearningNokia

2006-07 Crook Windrum
First year undergraduate accounts of university life
University of Nottingham

2006-08 Ainsworth
O‘Malley
Crook Utrecht
(co-ordinating partner)
LEAD: Problem solving through face-to-face networked interaction in the classroom
EU

2006-07 Hartnell-Young Crook
Fisher
Harrison
Pemberton
Impact Study of e-portfolios on learningBECTA

2006-09 O‘Malley
Benford
The design and evaluation of tangible technologies to support learning in early years and primary education
ESRC /Futurelab(CASE studentship) 

2005-08 Pitchford
O‘Malley
The effectiveness of whole-word multimedia literacy software for typically and atypically developing readers
ESRC /Crick software(CASE studentship) 

2005-08 Rodden
Adolphs
Ainsworth
Benford
Carter
Clarke
Crabtree
O‘Malley
DReSS: Understanding new forms of digital records for e-social scienceESRC

2005-07 Ainsworth
Freiburg
Ploeztner Visual and Interactive Learning:
UK and German Research exchange programme Academic Research Collaboration (ARC) Program of the British Council and the German Academic Exchange Service

2005-06 Crook
Wood
Windrum
eChina~UK overarching research projectHEFCE