Research in Distance Education 2011 conference keynote. Presentation by Professor Richard Noss (London KNowledge Lab). Much of our time as educationalists is spent considering how to enhance the teaching and learning of knowledge that has been subject only to slight change over the last century. The development of these curricula was formed by the needs of a pre-computational era, with inert technologies, and forms of representations that are - for some subjects at least - now largely obsolete. In this lecture, I will re-evaluate what becomes possible to teach and learn that was, quite simply, more or less unlearnable and unteachable before.
1. Learning the unlearnable
Richard Noss
London Knowledge Lab | Institute of Education | University of London
Technology Enhanced Learning Research Programme, UK
www.lkl.ac.uk
2. • the computer as an object of change
• the computer as an agent of change
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funding councils: Economic and Social Research thematic initiatives: early career researchers,
Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences ethics, interdisciplinary, technology enhanced
Research Council research, digital literacies, digital inclusion, user
modelling, artificial intelligence, productivity
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years, 2007-2012 12
£million total funding
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major themes: flexibility, inclusion, 30+
personalisation productivity, research capacity institutions across the UK
building
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8 researchers
large projects: Echoes, Ensemble, hapTEL,
Inter-Life, Learning Designer, MiGen, nQuire, 300+
SynergyNet outputs: including video, commentaries, journals,
conference papers, book chapters
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Technology and briefing
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BIS programme
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Productivity AIED papers
Interdisciplinarity AIED papers
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