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Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning TEL

The Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning is the research and evaluation centre for technology enhanced learning (TEL) within the Department of Educational Research. The Centre supports the wide range of research work within the Department of Educational Research that is concerned with teaching and learning with digital technologies and with widening digital participation across a range of populations.

The work of the Centre builds on the previous methodological and philosophical approaches to research undertaken through the world-renowned centre, CSALT, with its focus on networked and collaborative learning. The Centre brings together the many areas of expertise of current staff and students in the department, and the extensive studies we have carried out into a variety of aspects of technology enhanced learning in the UK and abroad.

For example, in recent years, current staff researched and reported on:

• ways technologies support pupil motivation for the UK government agency,
• the Intel Teach-Advanced online and collaborative programme,
• uses of technologies by young people not in employment, education and training,
• the learning needs of trade union educators,
• testing parameters of online word-level language learning support software,
• uses of technologies by migrant women,
• those who support young people who are not in employment, education and training,
• simulation-based learning in medical contexts.

The Directors of the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning, Dr Don Passey and Professor Mary Hamilton, talk here about its aims and scope. They give a flavour of work carried out in the Centre, and the approaches of those involved. Watch Video>>

Staff and students regularly present at conferences and are involved actively in the annual Networked Learning Conference.