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Don Passey

Senior Research Fellow

Degree: B.Sc. Hons. Biological Sciences (Birmingham University) PGCE (St. Martin's College, Lancaster) M.A. Industry Education (Warwick University)

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Studies in Advanced Learning Technology, Educational Technologies

Current Teaching

Don currently teaches on the MA in Education programme (in modules EDS 801 and EDS 813)

Research Interests

His work has focused on three main areas:

• Teaching and learning outcomes arising from uses of leading edge technologies.
• How home and out-of-school practices can enhance and support learning at an individual pupil level.
• How evaluation and research can be undertaken to support policy and practice.

He has undertaken studies for the DfES, government agencies, commercial and non-commercial groups, educational institutions and schools to inform both policy and practice.

Current research and writing includes:

• Preparation of a series of articles focusing on 'Technology Enhancing Learning', detailing evidence from a range of recent studies that have looked at how different technologies can enhance learning for different groups of young people
• Research studies looking at the impacts of e-mentoring on schools, teachers and learners, and the development and uses of on-line resources to support teaching and learning on the topic of climate change
• Research study looking at how BBC jam is used, and what impacts it has

Recently completed studies:

• Developing on-line resources to support teaching and learning about climate change, for WMnet RBC
• Impacts of on-line resources to support mathematics teaching and learning at Key Stage 3, for RM
• The role and learning benefits of IT Academies, for the DfES
• The use of broadcast video clips in schools and uses of multimedia support for 'at risk' young people, for the BBC
• The ways in which uses of ICT are linked to pupil motivation, for the DfES
• The role of ICT in supporting learning practices for community-based development, for a NDfC project
• The development of e-learning practices across RBCs and LEAs, including the outcomes of uses of interactive whiteboards

Society memberships

• International Federation for Information Processing Working Group on Elementary Education (WG3.5)

• British Computer Society, Member of the Education and Training Expert Panel

• British Computer Society, Chair of the Working Party on Data Management

Associated Keywords: Classroom interaction, Community development, ICT, Learning, Teaching and learning

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