What is the role of teachers, when so many young people seem to be able to learn quite successfully outside the confines of the classroom? What conflicts arise? Can we safely assume that the majority of young people can learn how and why to use digital tools? If we can, what are the expectations of… Read More…
IWB and Active Citizens
7 Nov 2010
The label ‘Traditional Education’ is often used as a rallying cry by those unsettled by change, to promote something that they feel is better. Try asking some of the Mexican teachers who took part in an international IWB project whether they prefer ‘traditional education’ to the possibilities that interactive display technologies have brought to their… Read More…
The contextualisation of learning
5 Nov 2010
How do the experiences and expectations of learning shift when you take teachers and their classes out of their normal environment? What are the changes? And do these changes transfer to the classrooms? Eston CLC CPD Evaluation Tweet
Netbooks in the Classroom
4 Nov 2010
If you provide every pupil in a Year 6 Primary class with a NetBook, how does the learning dynamic change? How does the ecology of the classroom change? This study looks at a project run from the Teesside City Learning Centre across three schools in the North East of England.
Ten Years of IWB Research
3 Nov 2010
Digital Tools for Visual Learning What is the evidence for the impact and effect on teaching and learning of interactive whiteboard use?
Digital Kids
1 Nov 2010
ICT and Digital Technologies present students with a toolbox. They use these tools to construct artefacts from a range of sources and inputs. The end product – a frozen point in a shifting panorama of possibilities – asserts their identity. These post-modern magpies use skills and concepts to combine source materials that meet the needs… Read More…
From practice to praxis
29 Oct 2010
This project builds on previous work undertaken by MirandaNet to explore the possibilities of teacher continuing professional development (CPD) in a time of increased workload, budget constraints and the need for professional change. The importance of work based learning, and the emerging informal processes by which theory can be transformed into practice by education practitioners… Read More…
Communities of Practice
27 Oct 2010
The pace of change in Education often means that teachers carry a train of conceptual baggage, with expectations as to what should be taught and why it should be taught. These conflict with students as practitioners, who battle with the teachers and academics who act as the gatekeepers over what constitute standards. … One of… Read More…
Download the Virtual Learning book
22 Oct 2010
Over the past 15 years a significant number of students have had access to computer facilities of one kind or another at home. The ways in which they have learned to use these devices, and the uses to which they are put, are shaped more by personal experience and input from their peers than by… Read More…
News
20 Oct 2010
About Virtual Learning: We specialise in aspects related to e-learning in educational and vocational contexts: Research Evaluation Postgraduate accreditation and school improvement Learning Platforms Continuous professional development Visual Learning Materials development Communities of Practice We also provide support for Autonomous Learning and Key Skills in education and industry.
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