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Adult Learning, Basic Skills and Literacy
Development work in this area includes seminars, workshops, short courses and supported research-in-practice opportunities for tutors and students in ... Read more»
Project staff: Mary Hamilton
Keywords: Evaluation
African Caribbean and Asian Curriculum Project
The ACA action research project was managed by Lancaster University's Community Access Programme (CAP, now known as REAP) and was initiated in 1995 wi ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Action research, Adult learning, Community development, Community involvement, Education, Ethnicity, Family
Aimhigher Cumbria
REAP are working on a consultancy basis with Aimhigher Cumbria to support evaluation of partnership, area and thematic Aimhigher activities. See also ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden, Marion Walker
Keywords: Action research, Parent-school relations, Partnership, Practitioner research, Widening participation
Aimhigher Cumbria and the Carlisle Information Advice and Guidance Task Group
Funded by, and on behalf of, Aimhigher Cumbria, REAP have undertaken an evaluation of a multi-agency Task Group established in Carlisle. The task gro ... Read more»
Project staff: Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Cumbria, Evaluation, Partnership, Widening participation
Aimhigher Cumbria and the STEM curriculum
An evaluation of Aimhigher Cumbria's Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) funded provision and its contribution to awareness, aspiration ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden
Keywords: Engineering, Mathematics, Mathematics education, Science and technology, Transition
Aimhigher Lancashire
A collaborative HEFCE, DfES and LSC funded widening participation project involving Higher and Further Education institutions in Lancashire who are wo ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Aiming4uni in Furness
REAP is involved with the Aiming4uni in Furness in two ways. Firstly, we contribute to the work with families strand, drawing on our action research ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton, Marion Walker
Keywords: Aiming4Uni, Family, Parents, Summer school, Widening participation
An investigation into the development of studio based learning resources
There were several aims in this projects, the main being to investigate the feasibility of studio based production of learning resources for single an ... Read more»
Project staff: Mike O'Donoghue, Julie-Ann Sime
Assessing the potential of e-learning to support re-engagement amongst young people with NEET status
This project aims to assess the potential of e-learning to support re-engagement of young people with NEET (Not in employment, education or training) ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey, Colin Rogers, Sadie Williams
A-TEAM: Advanced Training system for Emergency Management
The aim of A-TEAM is to improve the learning process in complex technical domains such as technological emergency management. Improved learning is ach ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Julie-Ann Sime
A-TEAM Evaluation
Pedagogical evaluation of a computer based training system for emergency response management ... Read more»
Project staff: Julie-Ann Sime
Barrow Youth Re: action Team
The Youth Re: action Team (YRAT) is a group of upper secondary school students from Barrow-in-Furness who have been involved in researching local peop ... Read more»
Project staff: Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Regeneration, Research methods
Basic Skills Awards
The Basic Skills Learner Awards Ceremony was held on 20th May 2004 during Adult Learners Week and managed by The Network. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Keywords: Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life
Basic Skills in Construction
Action research project into literacy, language and numeracy support in construction for the LSC Black Country ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Keywords: Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
BBC News School Report 2007-2008
BBC News ran a project in the 2006 to 2007 school year that provided young people in secondary schools (12 to 13 years of age) with support and opport ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
BBC News Schools Report 2008-2009
Following the initial study in the 2007-2008 school year, BBC News have commissioned a follow-on study, allowing researchers the chance to explore in ... Read more»
Project staff: Julia Gillen (Linguistics and English Language), Don Passey
BBC Project Merseyside Bus Evaluation
The BBC Merseyside Bus was set up to support and engage young people aged 14 to 25 years who were not in full time education or employment. This engag ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
BBC Project Merseyside: WebActive Evaluation
The overall aim of WebActive was to provide community groups with the tools to build and publish web pages. The BBC Project Merseyside pilot followed ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Education technology, E-learning
BBC Video Clip Library Evaluation
Video clips were made accessible by the BBC to a wide range of schools within Hull and across the Merseyside region. The independent evaluation explor ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
Blackpool City Learning "The Big Experiment"
From June 25th to July 6th 2007 Blackpool CLC: "will be turning the CLC into the school of the future. Using the best of current modern technology we ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Building Basic Skills in the Workplace Initiative
The initiative was aimed at providers of basic skills/workplace basic skills and consisted of 32 projects. The majority of the projects started in aut ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Keywords: Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
Building Capacity in Workplace Basic Skills(LIF Project)
This project included a wide range of activities including CPD courses, mapping survey of workplace provision and professsional development needs, pro ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Sandra Pegum
Building Professional Capacity in Workplace Basic Skills (LID Project)
The project included a range continuing professional development courses, survey of brokerage model and survey of employers. ... Read more»
Capacity Building and Sharing Good Practice
Capacity Building and sharing good practice to support Lancashire ETP training for brokers and providers. Including a Good Practice Event. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Careers, Education and Guidance
CSET has an impressive record in evaluating careers education and guidance, and in recent years it has worked with schools, colleges and careers compa ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies
CETL Evaluation
The Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) initiative has two main aims: to reward excellent teaching practice, and to further invest ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Ashwin, Joan Machell, Murray Saunders, Paul Trowler, Sadie Williams
Keywords: Higher education HE, Innovation, Learning technologies, Teaching and learning
Changing Faces of Adult Literacy, Numeracy & ESOL
This project takes a historical look at policy and practice in the field of Adult literacy, Language and Numeracy (ALLN). By bringing together the per ... Read more»
Project staff: Yvon Appleby (Linguistics and English Language), Mary Hamilton
Keywords: Adult basic education, Education, ESOL, Literacy
CHEXIT - Consortium for Higher Education eXchange in Instructional and Information Technologies.
Six institutions of higher education have formed this consortium to promote a student centered US/EU dimension to education and training in the field ... Read more»
Project staff: Christine Smith
Choice, class and community: the policy implications of educational placelessness
This postdoctoral fellowship contributes to understanding class, lifestyle and locale in relation to the educational market place by disseminating the ... Read more»
Keywords: Community, School choice, Social class
CKnoC: researching collaborative knowledge construction
The aim of this small scale research is to help gather data and try out an innovative research method for researching collaborative knowledge construc ... Read more»
Project staff: Maria Zenios
CLEO Content Strategy Development
CLEO (Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online) fulfil an important function with regard to broadband implementation, tackling the national DfES remit ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
COGS
The COGS project was described in early project literature as: "A Test Bed Project sponsored by the ICT in Schools Division and the City Academies Uni ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education, Education technology
Community Learning
Our community learning provided the basis of an extensive range of research and development cycles which informed our own provision and has generated ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Adult learning, Community development, Education
Designing an Inclusive Curriculum in Higher Education (DICHE)
The project, commissioned by the Higher Education Academy, aims to develop guidance that offers a range of practical ways to embed the requirements of ... Read more»
Project staff: Amy Burgess, Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden, Hannah Morgan (Applied Social Science)
Developing web-based curriculum data management systems
The aim of this long-term research project has been to explore ways in which school and national data could be handled, and a system could be produce ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education, E-learning
Disability Effective Inclusive Policies
The Disability Effective Inclusive Policies (DEIP) Project is funded by the European Social Fund and co-ordinated by the Centre for Continuing Educati ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton, Linda Piggott
Keywords: Disability, Employment, Participation, Transition
E-China
The eChina Phase 2 project on intercultural professional development for e-learning involves three UK Universities: Lancaster University, the lead Uni ... Read more»
Project staff: David McConnell, Andrew Jianhua Zhao
EDNER
EDNER - the formative evaluation of the UK higher education sector's Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) - was a three year project being ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Maria Zenios
Education and Work
A list of Education and Work related projects over a 10 year period from 1990 to 2000. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
EFX
The EFX Project was a short-term measure providing support for projects funded under the Joint Information Systems Committee's FAIR and X4L Programmes ... Read more»
ELAC
European and Latin American Consortium for IST Enhanced Continued Education in Environmental Management and Planning We provided evaluative framew ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Murray Saunders
E-LEN
The E-LEN project is a project under the Socrates Programme which aims to create a Network of E-Learning Centres and leading organisations in the lear ... Read more»
Project staff: Christine Smith, Maria Zenios
Keywords: E-learning, Teaching and learning
E-mentoring in schools
In summer 2005, the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust set up a pilot e-mentoring project. This pilot project involved 39 schools, at varying stag ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Education technology, E-learning
Employer Learning Centre Research
The Network provided consultancy for LSC Greater Manchester in the resourcing of selected Employer Learning Centres in the Greater Manchester area ... Read more»
Project staff: Eddie Little
Enhancing the Teaching-Research Nexus
Universities and departments often characterise their learning, teaching, assessment and curriculum (LTAC) practices in relation to research. Some cla ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Trowler
Keywords: Academic cultures, Higher education HE, Higher education policy, Teaching and learning
EQUEL
EQUEL stands for e-quality in e-learning and is a virtual centre of excellence for innovation and research in networked learning in higher and post-co ... Read more»
ETOILE: Environment for Team, Organisational and Individual Learning in Emergencies
ETOILE (Environment for Team, Organisational and Individual Learning in Emergencies) is an academia-industry collaborative project funded by the Europ ... Read more»
Project staff: Julie-Ann Sime
European and Latin America Collaboration
ELAC aimed to use ICT as a mechanism to support learning in environmental management in Costa Rica, Mexcio and Nicaragua. CSET's roles was to provide ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Keywords: Evaluation
Evaluating Education Action Zones
CSET is trialing an innovative approach to evaluation in one of the UK's Education Action Zones. This five year project collaborative project involvin ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Keywords: Education Action Zones, Evaluation
Evaluating the Scottish HE policy on quality (QEF)
This project is evaluating the enhancement led approach to the development of quality within the HE sector in Scotland. The project is running from 20 ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Keywords: Evaluation
Evaluation and Quality
A list of projects related to Evaluation and Quality, which took place between 1990 - 2001. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Evaluation Capacity Building
The project provides for evaluation capacity building for HEI widening participation teams (WPTs) in the form of a development initiative involving re ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden, Lesleyann Morgan, Linda Pearce, Murray Saunders
Keywords: Evaluation
Evaluation of Aston Pride ICT Development
The Aston Pride ICT Project has and is incorporating a range of ICT pilots and developments to support education for the community. There has been a r ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
Evaluation of learning and e-learning aspects of WMNet
Evaluation of learning and e-learning aspects of WMNet ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Classroom interaction, Classroom learning, Classroom research, Compulsory education, Education, Education technology, E-learning, Evaluation, Evaluation studies, Learning, Learning technologies, Teaching and learning, Technology enhanced learning
Evaluation of SchoolNet Global
Evaluation of SchoolNet Global ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Evaluation of the BBC Radio-in-Schools project
Evaluation of the BBC Radio-in-Schools project ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Evaluation of the impact of IT Academies
Evaluation of the impact of IT Academies ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Classroom learning, Compulsory education, Education, E-learning, Evaluation, ICT, Innovation, Professional development, Teaching and learning, Technology, Technology enhanced learning, Training
Evaluation of the WMnet climate change in the curriculum programme
WMnet are contracted to undertake two areas of project development for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). These areas ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Children's values and attitudes, Classroom learning, Compulsory education, Education, Evaluation, ICT, Innovation, Learning, Professional development, Project evaluation, Teaching and learning
Exploring and Expanding the Student Experience
This project aims to help Lancaster University students and the institution itself to better understand the ways in which students can increase their ... Read more»
Project staff: Gordon Clark (Geography, Lancaster Environment Centre), Leanne Thompson, Marion Walker, Duncan Whyatt (Lancaster Environment Centre LEC)
Keywords: Employment, Skills for life, Workplace skills
Exploring Public Images Of Literacy
Following earlier work on visual images of literacy, our current study analyses a corpus of newspaper photographs of literacy practices using software ... Read more»
Project staff: Mary Hamilton
Keywords: Literacy
Exploring social inequity issues using a large online data bas
SAM Learning is a leading provider of online revision resources for students in the United Kingdom (UK). Over a number of years SAM Learning has gath ... Read more»
Project staff: Catherine Fritz, Don Passey
Families And Higher Education Decision-making - FAHED
FAHED was an action research project concerned with raising awareness and identifying barriers to participation in higher education. The principles an ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Family, Higher education HE, Parent-school relations, Partnership, Professional development, Widening participation
GNVQs
The two main aims of this report were to identify the factors which influence and motivate individuals to take-up NVQs and to identify how TECs can he ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Green Man Evaluation
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens are running a project intended to improve appreciation of the interdependency of the plant and human worlds by childr ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
HEA (Higher Education Academy)
The Higher Education Academy has the mission of helping HE institutions, discipline groups and all staff to provide the best possible learning experie ... Read more»
Project staff: Joan Machell, Murray Saunders, Sadie Williams
HE and FE
Members of CSET have developed a series of courses for Lancaster University undergraduates on Education and Work, Educational Policy Making and Univer ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Home/Work: The Roles of Education, Literacy and Learning in the Social Networks and Mobility Patterns of Migrant Carers
This project focuses on the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professi ... Read more»
Project staff: Sondra Cuban
IiP and Skills for Life Resource
IiP and Skills for Life Resource - Production of a DVD on IiP and Skills for Life entitled Natural Allies ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Eddie Little
Keywords: ESOL, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace literacy, Workplace skills
Impact and uses of Espresso resources on teaching and learning
Impact and uses of Espresso resources on teaching and learning ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Classroom interaction, Classroom learning, Compulsory education, Creative practice and technology, Education, E-learning, Evaluation, ICT, Learning, Learning technologies, Pedagogical applications , Social contexts of learning, Teaching and learning, Technology enhanced learning
Impact Evaluation
This was a project involved an evaluation of all Skills for Life training programmes for practitioners and managers that the LSC had funded from 2003 ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Sandra Pegum
Impact of video-conferencing trial on teaching and learning
Impact of video-conferencing trial on teaching and learning ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Classroom interaction, Classroom learning, Compulsory education, Computer-mediated communication, Education, E-learning, Evaluation, ICT, Innovation, Learning, Learning technologies, Professional development, Social contexts of learning, Teaching and learning, Technology enhanced learning, Video
Independent evaluation of the West Berkshire LA Online Reporting Pilot Project
West Berkshire LA are piloting the implementation of an online reporting system giving teachers, parents and pupils access to online reports in real t ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Inspiring Communities Project. Barrow in Furness
A Baseline Report on Perceptions of its Purpose and Potential Achievements. ... Read more»
Intel Evaluation Project
An evaluation of Intel Foundation's online programme 'Intel Teach - Advanced Online'. ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Christine Smith, Maria Zenios
Interactive resources review
Interactive resources review ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
International Social Exclusion Project
Combating Social Exclusion through the Provision of Workplace Language Programmes ... Read more»
Project staff: Sandra Pegum
Keywords: Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
Investigating impacts of uses of retrieval and practice software facilities
phase-6 have commissioned this study to explore learning affordances, outcomes and impacts arising from uses of their software and resource facilities ... Read more»
Project staff: Catherine Fritz, Peter Morris (Psychology), Don Passey
IRIS Evaluation
External independent evaluation of the Islington Refugree Integration Strategy. ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Linda Pearce, Murray Saunders
Keywords: Evaluation, Integration, Refugee
Islington Integrated Refugee Strategy Evaluation Project
The project is an external independent evaluation the Islington Refugee Integration strategy. It provides a framework for how the evaluation of IRIS i ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Linda Pearce, Murray Saunders
Isolus II
Intermediate Storate of Laid-Up Submarines. The focus of the project was to provide a variety of mechanisms in support of public consultation on the o ... Read more»
Project staff: Mike O'Donoghue
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope is a Network of Excellence which brings together European teams in technology-enhanced learning. Its goal is to integrate 76 research uni ... Read more»
KTP The Knowledge Transfer Partnership
KTP The Knowledge Transfer Partnership Learning through partnership in South Lakes area of Barrow. This three year project is funded by the ESRC thro ... Read more»
Project staff: Katie Carr, Murray Saunders
Laddishness and self-worth protection
Concerns about 'laddish' cultures in schools are pervasive. Evidence that 'laddish' anti-learning and/or anti-school approaches are impeding some boys ... Read more»
Project staff: Carolyn Jackson
Lancashire Aimhigher Disability
This is one of the Theme 2 and 3 projects funded by Aimhigher Lancashire. The aim is to identify and dissemination good practice and support for disab ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Disability and widening access, Higher education HE
Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) Baseline Leadership Development Research Project
Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) Baseline Leadership Development Research Project Subtitle: A study of the higher education sector ... Read more»
Project staff: John Burgoyne (Management Learning and Leadership), John Mackness (Management Learning and Leadership), Murray Saunders, Sadie Williams
Leading edge partnership evaluation study
Bishop Rawstorne Language College have led a partnership with four other schools. The partnership was planned to run for a 3 year period, from Septemb ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
Learners' Journeys in Workplace Basic Skills in Brazil
Fiona Frank visited a workplace literacy class in Brasilia Cleaning Services in 1997 and returned in 2002 to find out what learners had achieved. LSDA ... Read more»
Level 2 Contextualisation
Contextualising the Skills for Life Level 2 Certificate in Adult Learner support to reflect the needs and aims of local government. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Malcolm Richmond
Keywords: Adult learning, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace literacy, Workplace skills
LIME (Lancashire Intergenerational Multicultural Education) Project
LIME contributed to Lancashire County Council's Adult and Community Programme of Family Learning. It worked to extend understanding about the factors ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Action research, Capacity building, Community development, Informal learning, Parenting
Link ER
The Link ER project undertook formative evaluation of the JISC DiVLE programme, a series of nine short projects each addressing some aspect of these t ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp
Literacy in the Digital University
This ESRC seminar series is a collaboration between the Open University, Lancaster University, Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh. The aims are to: Cri ... Read more»
Project staff: David Barton (Linguistics and English Language)
Keywords: Digital literacies, Higher education HE, Literacies
LLP ILT Project
A significant part of the Lifelong Learning Partnership (LLP) Information and Learning Technologies (ILT) Project of the North West Lancashire College ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Education technology, E-learning, Professional development
London Regional Workplace Basic Skills Forum
The project sought to increase the quality and quantity of workplace basic skills programmes in London by providing continuing professional developmen ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Sandra Pegum
LTSN (Learning and Teaching Support Network)
Members of the Department are undertaking the national evaluation of the LTSN which is the national framework for supporting, promoting, transfer and ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
LUCID: Library Understanding and Curriculum enhancement to Inform Decision-making
The LUCID project aims to provide young people with an academically focused awareness and achievement raising package of activities. It brings togethe ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Education
Maestro
In 2003 RM established a three year long project, to look at the long term uses and outcomes of MathsAlive in a number of schools across England. Math ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning, Mathematics
MATCH: Learning Needs Analysis of Trade Union Trainers
As the Europeanization of industrial relations is rapidly increasing, it will be necessary to redefine the European dimension of trade union education ... Read more»
Project staff: Sondra Cuban, Mary Hamilton
MONET 2: Network of Excellence
MONET 2 is a European Network of Excellence connecting academics and industrialists interested in qualitative reasoning and model based systems and in ... Read more»
Project staff: Julie-Ann Sime
Keywords: Adult learning, Education technology, E-learning, ICT, Learning technologies, Professional learning, Teaching and learning, Technology enhanced learning, Workplace learning
MONET: Network of Excellence
MONET and MONET2 are European Networks of Excellence connecting academics and industrialists interested in qualitative reasoning and model based syste ... Read more»
Project staff: Julie-Ann Sime
MUSCLE
The MUSCLE project was a JISC funded project to develop a vertical learning space across Schools, Colleges and University. ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Mike O'Donoghue
National Evaluation of the CETL Programme
The Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) initiative has two main aims: to reward excellent teaching practice, and to further invest ... Read more»
Project staff: Dave Allaway, Joan Machell, Murray Saunders, Sadie Williams
NEETs Intervention Study
Following the initial study, Becta have commissioned a follow-on study, which incorporates aspects of development as well as research. Changing Media ... Read more»
Networked Learning 2008
The conference is an opportunity to participate in a forum for the critical examination and analysis of reseach in networked learning ie learning and ... Read more»
Project staff: David McConnell, Maria Zenios
Networked Learning Conference 2010
The Networked Learning Conference is an international, research-based conference. Since its inception in 1998 the conference has developed a strong fo ... Read more»
Networked Learning for Educational Leaders
The Networked Learning for Educational Leaders research project will studied information and communication technologies as they impact upon networked ... Read more»
Networked Learning In Higher Education
The project is designed to create a coherent picture of students' experiences of networked learning in UK higher education, and to provide an analysis ... Read more»
PALETTE (Pedagogically sustained Adaptive Learning through the Expolitation of Tacit and Explicit knowledge
The PALETTE project aims at facilitating and augmenting individual and organisational learning in Communities of Practice (CoPs). ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Ashwin, Joan Machell, Murray Saunders
Pilot Study of Use of Technologies for Educational Purposes at an NHS Trust
This study undertakes an environmental scan of current practices in the use of technology for educational purposes at an NHS Trust. The purpose of thi ... Read more»
Project staff: Gale Parchoma, Maria Zenios
Keywords: Education technology, E-learning, Technology enhanced learning, Workplace learning
Practitioner-Led Research Initiative Impact Study
The aim of this project was to carry out an impact study of the practitioner-led research initiative and to produce a short guide on how to support pr ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Mary Hamilton, Kathryn James
Keywords: Action research, Adult basic education, Partnership, Practitioner research, Public policy
Professional Development
A list of Professional Development related projects, dating from 1989 - 2001. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Provider Toolkit Phase 1
The 'Language, Literacy and Numeracy Provider Toolkit' website. This was the first phase of the project. ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt
Keywords: ESOL, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
Provider Toolkit Phase 3
Development of phase 3 of web-based Provider Toolkit ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Eddie Little, Isabel White
Keywords: ESOL, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
Pupil motivation and ICT research study
Pupil motivation and ICT research study ... Read more»
Project staff: Dave Allaway, Joan Machell, Gilly McHugh, Don Passey, Colin Rogers
Keywords: Children's values and attitudes, Classroom interaction, Classroom learning, Classroom research, Cognition, Education, Education technology, E-learning, ICT, Learning, Learning technologies, Research methods, Teaching and learning, Technologies, Technology enhanced learning
RECRE@SUP
RECRE@SUP is a European research project with a focus on change in Higher Education Institutions. It is researching the way innovative curriculum chan ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Keywords: Education
Refugees Education and Employment
The Refugee Progression and Employment (REPP) Project is funded by the European Social Fund. It was a collaborative project with Universities of Susse ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Citizenship, Community development, Education, Equity, Ethnicity, Exclusion and disadvantage
School of the Future
The focus of the project was to examine children's designs for a future school and to compare these to current designs and initiatives. ... Read more»
Project staff: Mike O'Donoghue
Self verification during transfer to secondary school
I am writing a paper with Janine Muldoon on Self verification during transfer to secondary school for the British Educational Research Journal. ... Read more»
Project staff: Jo Warin
SIMPLE: Statistics Instruction Modules with Purposeful Learning Emphasis
A new research methods project funded by ESRC at Lancaster This interdisciplinary project will develop a small set of modules and associated delivery ... Read more»
Project staff: David Denver (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR), Andrew Folkard (Geography, Lancaster Environment Centre), Brian Francis (Mathematics and Statistics), Catherine Fritz, Peter Morris (Psychology), Moira Peelo (CELT, Applied Social Science), Julie-Ann Sime
Keywords: E-learning, Statistics, Virtual learning environment VLE
SPECIALS
Funded by North Lancashire Teaching Primary Care Trust, the Students' and Professionals', Experience, Concerns and Issues regarding Alcohol use by Lan ... Read more»
Project staff: Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Alcohol and illicit drug use, Health behaviour, Higher education HE
Strategic Development Project Evaluation
This is an evaluative project of a HEFCE-funded strategic development project at an English university. The project aims to make fundamental changes t ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Davies, Paul Trowler
Student Engagement
Funded by the Higher Education Academy, this project elaborates and categorises the different understandings of the term 'student engagement' in highe ... Read more»
Project staff: Paul Trowler
Study of the implementation of the Learning Platform LP+ across Wolverhampton LA primary schools
Wolverhampton Local Authority (LA) has been instrumental in seeking effective ways to implement centralised technological facilities to benefit their ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Supporting Entry to Employment (E2E) and workbased learning providers to deliver quality basic skills
Supporting Entry to Employment (E2E) and workbased learning providers to deliver quality basic skills in South Yorkshire. ... Read more»
Supporting Skills for Life in the Public Sector
To deliver the City and Guilds (9297) Level 2 Award in Learner Support for intermediaries to enable them to identify and screen potential Skills for L ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Bronwyn Leonard, Sandra Pegum
Keywords: Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace skills
Survey of Delivery of Language, Literacy and Numeracy in the Workplace
The aim of this survey was to report to the DfES on effective delivery of language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) in the workplace(England only), and in ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Eddie Little, Sandra Pegum, Isabel White
Keywords: ESOL, Language, Literacy, Numeracy, Skills for life, Workplace learning, Workplace literacy, Workplace skills
Teaching & Learning Strategies
A list of Teaching and Learning Strategies related projects, dating from 1989 - 2001. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
The Network for workplace language, literacy and numeracy
The Network for workplace language, literacy and numeracy The Network for workplace language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) is a national organisation ... Read more»
Project staff: Sue Batt, Sandra Pegum
Training Strategies and Management Development
A list of Training Strategies and Management Development related projects, dating from 1992 - 1997. ... Read more»
Project staff: Murray Saunders
Up2Uni
Up2uni is a staff development programme designed to support practitioners advising prospective students about higher education. On behalf of the prog ... Read more»
Project staff: Steven Dempster, Ann-Marie Houghton, Rebecca Marsden, Marion Walker, Jess Walmsley
Keywords: Evaluation, Professional development, Widening participation
Uses and learning outcomes of BBC jam
The BBC have commissioned this 2 year long study, to explore how BBC jam is used in formal and informal environments to support learning. The study wi ... Read more»
VirRAD: the Virtual Radiopharmacy
Aim: To create a readily accessible virtual environment where the Radiopharmacist community can meet to learn, exchange views and discuss best practic ... Read more»
Project staff: Bob Kemp, Julie-Ann Sime
Virtual Workspace Evaluation
Virtual Workspace is an on-line environment to support learning. Pupils can work on-line, taking work from school, and working further on it at home, ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology
Widening Participation - Disability
The project was funded by HEFCE Special Initiative 'Students with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (SLDD) - 1996-1999' to enhance its overall co ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
Keywords: Disability and teaching and learning, Disability and widening access
Wolverhampton LA ICT Impacts Evaluation
Wolverhampton LA have invested in and supported uses of ICT in schools since 2000. This independent study was commissioned to provide a structure thro ... Read more»
Project staff: Don Passey
Keywords: Compulsory education, Education technology, E-learning
Working with Families
Working with families - involves supporting practitioners working within the community, FE and HE to work more effectively with families who have no e ... Read more»
Project staff: Ann-Marie Houghton
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