Selection of relevant past/present ULTRALAB projects
Selection of relevant past/present ULTRALAB projects |
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Learning
in the New Millennium
(LiNM) (1993 - ongoing)
Sponsor Nortel
Networks
Description: long term research project connecting children aged 7 to
18 years with engineers and scientists to discuss all issues.
Currently investigating mobile IP.
Main finding: individual identities matter, bandwidth needs to be
symmetrical.
Schools
OnLine (1995 -
1997)
Sponsor DTI
Description: Children aged 7 to 18 and their teachers in 69 schools
connected to curriculum experts
Main finding: learning can take place in an online context. The need
for participation, not simply interaction was established
Tesco
SchoolNet 2000
(1998 - 2000)
Sponsor Tesco
Description: Children of all ages in 12,300 schools in the UK
Main finding: a sense of audience for work is essential. A feeling of
community can develop among large numbers (139,000 children)
ChestNet
(1996 - ongoing )
Sponsor Whipps Cross Hospital
Description: Registrars connected to continue discussion started at
monthly meetings and upgrade their skills remotely
Main finding: there is a wide need for online learning communities
throughout all populations
OnLine
Learning Network
(1997 - 1998)
Sponsor IPPR
Description: University for Industry initiative connecting Learning
Professionals
Main finding: We increased our insight into the barriers and benefits
for adults participating in online learning communities, and
discovered that we need to support professionals to be
self-directed.
think.com
(1999 -
2001)
Sponsor Oracle
Description: to develop a set of online learning community tools to
allow people to build their own learning communities.
Main finding: confirmed the need for sensitive and intensive
facilitation and that good interfaces are complex to build for a
global community.
Intercollege (1999 - ongoing)
Sponsor Local area health trusts, GP fundholders, pharmacists, social
services and hospitals
Description: to extend the principles established in NetSprite into
all areas of the Health Service in Essex
Main finding: participants need to explicitly learn the skills of
collaboration and self directed learning
URL research.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk
Talking
Heads
(2000 - 2002)
Sponsor DfEE
Description: Talking Heads is a pilot project for the Virtual College
of School Leadership, researching how best to generate online
communities of practise for new heads of schools.
Main finding: Experts and policy makers in the Hotseat are learning
from the front line by engaging in frank discussions with experienced
practitioners on crucial educational issues. We will also learn how
to extend and sustain the welcoming and personalised character of the
communities and to optimise the effectiveness of the extensive
knowledge base being generated by the participants.
notschool.net
(2000 - 2001)
Sponsor DfEE
Description: an experimental virtual school for children who are
excluded from the education system
Main finding: research ongoing
eTui(1998
- 2000)
Sponsor i3
Description: a project looking at the potential for encouraging
metcognitive learning awareness in young children by developing an
intellgent toy
Main finding: research ongoing