User Groups and Development Projects
The TLRP Focal Projects
Ten projects within the TLRP have been involved as research participants (four from January 2005 and a further six from September-December 2005). These include single and multi-institutional projects from all over the UK (some of which have international partners), and represent a wide range of organisational forms and research perspectives.
Other TLRP Applications of the VRE
As the project has progressed, the rising profile of the Sakai VRE has led to its being used beyond the ten pilot projects. Other teams, groups and seminar series within the TLRP have begun to use it to support their collaborative activities ad to manage user engagment and dissemination. The recent call for participation in the ESRC/EPSRC research programme on Technology-Enhanced Learning was managed through the VRE, and all participating projects in this programme are being encouraged to make full use of the VRE in the course of their research and development work.
British Educational Research Association (BERA)
The British Educational Research Association is tracking the project and one of its SIGS (Special Interest Groups) is using a specially-configured Sakai worksite in their own evaluation.
The Applied Educational Research Scheme (AERS)
The Applied Educational Research Scheme of Scotland also uses Sakai to support research, the development of communities of educational practitioners and consultation and dissemination activities. They collaborate closely with the project and have assisted us in piloting research activities. They have also made extensive use of the wiki tool developed in this project.
QUADS: A Research Archive of Educational Evaluations
In this ESRC funded project (part of QUADS, the Qualitative Research Archive and Data Sharing Scheme) based at CARET and the Centre for Applied Research in Education at the University of East Anglia, a Sakai worksite has been enhanced by the addition of a 'Proxy' tool allowing controlled access to a digital repository of multi-media materials related to key educational evaluations. This itself is based on the Fedora digital repository. This project have also used the wiki in collaborative writing and analysis, and has generated a range of interesting use cases relating to secondary analysis of qualitative data. The project website is at http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/quads.
DENI/CCEA E-Consultation with Pupils: A Pilot Study
In this project, itself a development of a participating TLRP project, primary-school pupils in Northern Ireland are involved in piloting and evaluating different means of 'e-consultation' in a project led a team by Queen's University Belfast. The current focus of this consultation is the change to primary-secondary school transition arrangements in Northern Ireland. Sakai is being used to provide a secure environment in which pupils are able to try out different consultation mechanisms including surveys, online chat and interactive activities. More information on this project is available at the QUB Centre for Educational Research Site.
|
|
|