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Dr Don Passey
Senior Research Fellow
Department: Educational Research
Degree: B.Sc. Hons. Biological Sciences (Birmingham University) PGCE (St. Martin's College, Lancaster) M.A. Industry Education (Warwick University) Ph.D. (Lancaster University)
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education, Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning
Current Teaching
Don was the course director of the MRes in Innovation in School Practice (a course developed specifically for the SSAT), and also taught on the MA in Education programme (in modules EDS 801, EDS 812 and EDS 813). He has recently convened a new module (EDS 313) for the undergraduate PinE programme called 'Learning in a Digital Age', and teaches in the EDS207 module on the same programme.
Research Interests
His work has focused on a number of main areas:
- Teaching and learning outcomes arising from uses of leading edge technologies, principally in primary and secondary schools.
- Implementation and management of leading edge technologies at local authority and individual institution levels.
- Uses of data and development of data systems to support curriculum and educational practices.
- How home and out-of-school practices can enhance and support learning at an individual pupil level.
- How technologies support young people who are at risk of learning exlusion or who are hard to reach.
- How evaluation and research can be undertaken to support policy and practice.
He has undertaken studies for the government department in England, government agencies, and, in a number of countries, commercial and non-commercial groups, educational institutions and schools to inform both policy and practice.
Current research and writing includes:
- Detailing evidence from a range of recent studies that have looked at how different technologies can enhance learning engagement and outcomes for different groups of young people
- Exploring the impacts of learning platforms in schools on management, teaching and learning, and how uses of associated technologies integrate with learning platform functionality
- Detailing pupil and teacher concerns about online safety
- Examining uses of large online resource sets, and their impacts on specific aspects of learning
- Considering uses and impacts of technologies in informal, non-formal and formal learning settings
- Assessing the sustainability and influences of digital access at home in socio-economically disadvantaged communities
Recently completed studies:
- Identifying ways that technologies are used by young people who are not in education, employment or training
- Exploring ways that learning platforms are being implemented and used in schools
- Examining ways that support workers use emerging technologies to engage with young people
Potential Doctoral Proposals
Uses and impacts of technologies and technology-based resources in formal educational environments
Uses and impacts of technologies and technology-based resources across informal and formal learning environments
Specific aspects of learning and how these are impacted by technologies
How technologies are used by and impact young people who find it hard to learn or who are vulnerable
Uses of data management and data handling in school-based and lifelong learning contexts
Society memberships
- International Federation for Information Processing Working Group on Elementary Education (WG3.5)
- International Federation for Information Processing Working Group on IT in Educational Management (WG3.7)
- British Computer Society, Member of the Education and Training Expert Panel
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Don Passey has 40 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Passey, Don (2010) Independent Evaluation of the Implementation of the Learning Platform LP+ across Schools: Report on Early Implementation Outcomes in Wolverhampton Local Authority. Working Paper. Lancaster University.
Passey, Don (2010) Mobile learning in school contexts : can teachers alone make it happen? IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 3 (1). pp. 68-81. ISSN 1939-1382
Passey, Don and Gillen, Julia (2009) BBC News School Report 2008/2009: Independent Evaluation. BBC, London.
Passey, Don and Williams, Sadie and Colin, Rogers (2008) Assessing the potential of e-learning to support re-engagement amongst young people with Not in education, employment or training (NEET) status: An independent research and evaluation study. Background report. Becta, Lancaster.
Passey, Don and Williams, Sadie and Rogers, Colin (2008) Assessing the potential of e-learning to support re-engagement amongst young people with Not in education, employment or training (NEET) status : An independent research and evaluation study. Overview report. Becta, Lancaster.
Passey, Don (2008) BBC News School Report 2007/2008: An Independent Evaluative Review. BBC, London.
Passey, Don and Fritz, Catherine (2008) Social inequality and uses of online resources: Perspectives highlighted from an investigation of a large online data set. SAM Learning, London.
Passey, Don (2008) WMnet Development of Young People's Climate Change Messages 2006-2008: A Final Review. WMNET, Lancaster.
Passey, Don (2007) Maestro MathsAlive Evaluation Study: An Evaluation of Impacts on Learning – Final Year Summary Report. RM, Abingdon.
Passey, Don (2007) Top teaching tips. BESA, London.
Associated Keywords: Classroom interaction, Community development, ICT, Learning, Teaching and learning
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