The programmes in the Research & Scholarship portfolio are:
Projects in the programmes include research into learning in a more open world, digital scholarship, researching how the net generation learns, social networking in education, learning design and mobile technologies such as the use of mobile devices in teaching and learning.
Various externally funded research Projects are included in the Research & Scholarship portfolio:
- Strategic project on digital scholarship
- Open Learning: Bridge to Success (Next Generation Learning Challenges funded project - see the Announcement)
- ESRC (Networked generation, digital literacies, digital univerities seminar series, Personal Inquiry)
- EPSRC (Out There In Here)
- ESRC TEL project (Technology enhanced learning theme on interdisciplinarity)
- Carnegic Foundation (CASTL network on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - SOTL)
- Hewlett Foundation (Open Learning Network OLNET)
- HE Academy (OER case study)
- JISC (Curriculum design - OULDI-JISC)
- EU projects (XDelia, OPAL OER, Cyprus OULDI)
- UK Aid (English in Action)
- Catalan Government (Technology Enhanced Activities for Learning Science for Children in Hospital (TeaCH) project)
A number of Research Groups are based in IET and several IET academics serve on the editorial boards of prestigious international Research Journals.
The Jennie Lee Research laboratory facilities support educational research at The Open University.
IET’s portfolio of Research & Scholarship is co-ordinated by the Associate Director (Research & Scholarship). All IET research is aligned to one or more of the University’s strategic objectives and is geared to targeting a portfolio of high value, high impact bids. IET fosters collaborative research networks with Faculties and service units across the OU and externally.
