Bristol Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning and Education (BRILLE)

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Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL) SIG

 

Bristol Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning and Education (BRILLE)

Home page: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/research/brille/aboutus.aspx

BRILLE conducts theoretical through to applied research revolving around three distinctive yet complementary research themes

Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL) – John Cook

Investigating the application of Technology Enhanced Learning to mediate, augment, support and transform learning

Researching Children and Young People – Penelope Harnett

Focussing on the lived experiences of children and young people and analyses different policy and social contexts which impact on their lives

Post-compulsory education, social justice and the student experience – Richard Waller

Working in areas of further, higher and work-based education. It also investigates issues of education and social justice and the experience of students across all phases and sites of education

Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL)

Home page: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2435

Designing for Digital Learners or D4DL is an open Special Interest Group (SIG) that investigates the application of Technology Enhanced Learning or TEL (e.g. mobile devices and social media) to mediate, augment, support and/or transform learning.

The nature of learning is being enhanced and mediated by the likes of mobile devices and the networks and media to which they connect people.

Consequently, there is a need to re-examine approaches to the design of, and research into, learning experiences that incorporate TEL within learning contexts. Interdisciplinary research focus (from theoretical all the way through to applied).

This research theme will follow an ‘educational design research’ methodological approach; this is an approach that tends to have interventionist characteristics, is process oriented and contributes to theory building.

Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL)

D4DL also takes a pedagogically driven approach to investigating learning, mediated by digital media, across a variety of contexts (e.g. FE, HE, schools, work-based, informal).

Digital media can include such innovations as augmented reality, location based services and the affordances of mobile devices and social media in general.

We are open to those thinking about research, to those with a clear agenda for a Masters, EdD or Doctoral study, or if you have finished one of these and are thinking ‘what next’, or if you are an established researchers, etc

See Designing for Informal and Lifelong Learning (DILL) at http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ltri//research/informal.htm for an overview of my previous work in this area