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What research questions the project addresses, aims & themes
This project aims to explore the extent to which British innovation in technology-enhanced learning has translated into commercial products or achieved radical transformation of teaching and learning.
The relationships between educational technology research, innovation, commercialisation and impact are complex and evolving. There are claims that translating the findings, prototypes and outputs of projects into commercial products and services have failed to influence the quality of teaching and learning in the UK, and this project will investigate the reality of TEL research commercialistion and what lessons can be learned to enable more effective TEL innovation in the future.
How the research questions are addressed by the project (methodology and activity/environment)
The team will examine the six key research questions:
- Challenges of commercialistion within UK / international contexts
- Perspectives from different sectors
- Audit of UK examples commercialised internationally
- Assistance to market
- Examples of success
- Relationship between impact and commercial exploitation
These questions will be addressed through mixed-method studies across university and non-university innovation and apparent success / failure to achieve substantial impact (commercial or educational). In addition hindsight, insight and foresight will also be explored.
For context and comparison exemplars from sectors outside education (e.g. entertainment, commerce and finance) will also be studied, which could illuminate TEL innovation.
The mixture of methods, appropriate to the questions, will be:
- Challenges of commercialisation
- Sectors
- UK to international
- Assistance to market
- Successes
- Relation between impact and commercial exploitation
Findings and outputs
There are no findings or outputs yet
Project impact
There is no impact to report yet
Keywords
Technology enhanced learning
People involved
Eileen Scanlon (IET)
Mike Sharples (IET)
Rebecca Ferguson (IET)
Simon Cross (IET)
Mark Fenton O'Creevy (OUBS)
James Fleck (OUBS)
Project partners and links
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Funder(s)
ESRC
Start Data and Duration
April 2013 - September 2013