RIDE 2011 keynote: Learning the unlearnable

Learning the unlearnable

Richard Noss London Knowledge Lab | Institute of Education | University of London

Technology Enhanced Learning Research Programme, UK

www.lkl.ac.uk

• the computer as an object of change

• the computer as an agent of change

• the computer as an object of change

new computing cultures

but in education...

300,000,000

what people learn in formal education has to be at least as powerful and engaging as what they learn at home

• the computer as an agent of change

“We were seeing things that were 25-standard deviation moves,

several days in a row” said GS’s chief financial

officer, 2007.

The expected waiting time for this event, 25 s.d., is 6*10124 lives of the universe

Seymour Papert

some ideas look harder than they are, because of the way they are represented

2 funding councils: Economic and Social Research

Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Council

5 years, 2007-2012

5 major themes: flexibility, inclusion,

personalisation productivity, research capacity

building

8

large projects: Echoes, Ensemble, hapTEL,

Inter-Life, Learning Designer, MiGen, nQuire,

SynergyNet

9 thematic initiatives: early career researchers,

ethics, interdisciplinary, technology enhanced

research, digital literacies, digital inclusion, user

modelling, artificial intelligence, productivity

12 £million total funding

30+ institutions across the UK

150+ researchers

300+ outputs: including video, commentaries, journals,

conference papers, book chapters

Response to BIS

MUITEL taster and briefing

Digital Inclusion BETA

Digital Literacies

Technology Enhanced Research

report

AIED papers

Education 2.0

Productivity beta

What’s Next

Interdisciplinarity

TEL programme

outputs

AIED papers

Technology Enhanced Research

report

Education 2.0

Taming complexity in authentic situations

The PI Project

Expanding what’s possible collaboratively

SynergyNet

Making teaching more productive

Haptel

Making teaching more productive

Learning Designer

Affect and inclusion

Echoes

Affect and inclusion

InterLife

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