Educational Visions looks to future developments in educational technology by reviewing its history, covering themes such as learning analytics and design, inquiry learning, citizen science, inclusion, and learning at scale. The book shows how successful innovations can be built over time, informs readers about current practice and demonstrates how they can use this work themselves. The chapters show how one research group has worked persistently over 40 years with four visions in mind, of a future where:
- learning is accessible for everyone
- teaching is adapted to meet learners’ needs
- teams can successfully teach any number of students at a distance
- learners engage enthusiastically with STEM learning.
Each vision is covered in a pair of chapters: the first brings together four decades of research in the area; the second introduces current work, showing how they are united by a consistent framework and a persistent vision.
She is a Senior Lecturer at The Open University, focusing on educational futures, learning analytics, MOOCs, innovating pedagogy and online social learning. She has been a pedagogic adviser to the FutureLearn MOOC platform since its foundation, supporting its development of conversational learning and its recent move towards microcredentials. She is also one of the coordinators of the FutureLearn Academic Network (FLAN), linking academics from over 140 partner institutions around the world and helping to develop a focused research agenda. As lead author on the 'Innovating Pedagogy' reports published each year by IET, she works with colleagues to explore new forms of teaching, learning and assessment in order to guide educators and policymakers. She is also an executive member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and was Program Chair for its international conferences in 2018 and 2019.
Reader in the Institute of Educational Technology and part of CALRG since its inception. She is currently part of the organising committee. Current research interests include mobile learning and social and affective uses, how informal learning can be supported by technology, especially mobile devices and how this can support language learning. She co-edits the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, a peer-reviewed open access online journal in educational technology.
Regius Professor of Open Education and Associate Director of Research and Innovation in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK. As Associate Director she has institutional responsibility for developing research strategy in educational technology. Her teaching and research experience has been gained across OU roles including course manager, postgraduate research student, module team member and chair, CALRG research group director and research centre director, principal investigator on research council grants including large cross-institutional and inter-institutional externally and internally funded research projects. She is particularly interested learning science and in journeys between formal and informal learning, and is one of the organisers of the FutureLearn academic network. https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/eileen.scanlon
