Selwyn, N, Crook, C, Carr, D, Carmichael, P, Noss, R, Laurillard, D
This Commentary sets out to challenge the confident portrayal of web 2.0 by many educationalists in terms of an imminent transformation of learning and teaching. Careful thought has therefore been...
Technological development, capacity building and knowledge construction in education research (2007)
This special edition of Technology, Pedagogy and Education brings together a group of papers from projects of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme...
The doubtful guest? A Virtual Research Environment for education (2007)
Laterza, V, Carmichael, P, Procter, R
In this paper the authors describe a novel ‘Virtual Research Environment’ (VRE) based on the Sakai Virtual Collaboration Environment and designed to support education research. This VRE has been...
Talk in virtual contexts: reflecting on participation and online learning models (2007)
Thorpe, M, McCormick, R, Kubiak, C, Carmichael, P
Computer-mediated conferencing has been adopted, particularly for purposes of online course provision, as a method that can deliver community. Widespread interest in a communities-of-practice...
This special edition brings together a group of papers from projects of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) and the Applied Educational...
The design of the VRE for education research project (2007)
Carmichael, P, Procter, R, Laterza, V
This paper describes the design of a two-year research and development project funded by JISC under its Virtual Research Environments Programme. The project involved the deployment, development and...
Procter, R, Laterza, V, Carmichael, P
This paper reports a novel research approach in which routine server data collected from online environments provides a 'focus' for semi-structured interviews in the course of which research...
Using video diaries to explore the nature of education research (2007)
Laterza, V, Carmichael, P, Procter, R
Although video technology is now widely used by education researchers, characteristically for observation of teaching and learning environments, there has been very little use of video to illuminate...
Using Virtual Collaboration Environments for Education Research: Some Ethical Considerations (2007)
There has been an increase in interest in the ethical implications of conducting ‘online research’ and the providers of the TLRP Virtual REsearch Environment have assisted in developing ethical...
Initiating and Supporting Practitioner Research in Higher Education (2007)
In this paper we describe how practitioner research activity around the theme of ‘Threshold Concepts’ was initiated and supported as part of an ESRC/EPSRC Technology Enhanced Learning Project....
Improving Learning How to Learn: Classrooms, Schools and Networks (2007)
James, M, McCormick, R, Black, P, Carmichael, P, Drummond, M, Fox, A, ...
Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach...
Fox, A, McCormick, R, Procter, R, Carmichael, P
As part of the Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks Project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners’ views of the networks associated...
Fox, A, McCormick, R, Procter, R, Carmichael, P
As part of the Learning How to Learn in classrooms, schools and networks project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners’ views of the networks associated...
Kirkland, DJ, Aardema, M, Banduhn, N, Carmichael, P, Fautz, R, Meunier, J-R, ...
A recent analysis by Kirkland et al. [Kirkland, D., Aardema, M., Henderson, L. and Müller, L. (2005) Evaluation of the ability of a battery of 3 in vitro genotoxicity tests to discriminate rodent...
Bevan, R, Pedder, D, James, M, Carmichael, P
Developing effective approaches to new technology in classrooms has been a constant challenge over the last decade. This project chose to examine the use of on-screen concept maps. Previous studies...
Kirkland, DJ, Aardema, M, Banduhn, N, Carmichael, P, Fautz, R, Meunier, J-R, ...
A recent analysis by Kirkland et al. [Kirkland, D., Aardema, M., Henderson, L. and Müller, L. (2005) Evaluation of the ability of a battery of 3 in vitro genotoxicity tests to discriminate rodent...
The TLRP Digital Repository and its Applications - poster (2006)
This poster describes the Teaching and Learning Research Programme's (TLRP) Digital Repository - DSpace - where project and programme outputs, such as journal article, books, videos, research...
A Virtual Research Environment for Educational Research - poster (2006)
Carmichael, P, Procter, R, Laterza, V
This project, A Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for Educational Research, also known as Sakai VRE, developed online tools and systems to assist researchers of the Teaching and Learning Research...
Sakai: a collaborative virtual research environment for education (2006)
Carmichael, P, Rimpilainen, S, Procter, R
Education research projects are increasingly using network technologies to improve communication between project members, to safeguard data, and to engage with the "users" of their research. This has...
Learning How to Learn: Tools for Schools (2006)
James, M, Black, P, Carmichael, P, Conner, C, Dudley, P, Fox, A, ...
Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whist this is widely acknowledged by teachers, many lack the knowledge and skills they need to teach their pupils to learn how...
Sakai: An Environment for Virtual Research (2006)
The range of electronic resources and tools available to researchers has increased far beyond even what early enthusiasts such as Howard Rheingold envisaged when they described how the internet would...
Sakai: A Virtual Research Environment for Education (2006)
Carmichael, P, Procter, R, Rimpilainen, S, Laterza, V
Electronic, and especially online, research tools are starting to have a significant impact upon research processes and the topics that can be addressed. The Teaching and Learning Research programme...
Learning How to Learn - in classrooms, schools and networks, TLRP Research Briefing 17 (2006)
James, M, McCormick, R, Marshall, B, Black, P, Carmichael, P, Drummond, M, ...
Research on assessment for learning has demonstrated that it can lead to improved learning and achievement. Less is known about how these results can be scaled up and sustained without intense...
Teachers' networks in and out of school (2006)
Carmichael, P, Fox, A, McCormick, R, Procter, R, Honour, L
A 'mapping task' was used to explore the networks available to head teachers, school coordinators and local authority staff. Beginning from an ego-centred perspective on networks, we illustrate a...
Are we there yet? Teachers, schools and electronic networks (2006)
The ‘Learning How to Learn’ project of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme engaged teachers from primary and secondary schools in the UK in development and research of practice...
Sakai: A Virtual Research Environment for Education Research (2006)
The range of electronic resources and tools available to researchers has increased far beyond even what early enthusiasts such as Howard Rheingold envisaged when they described how the internet would...
Teachers' learning through networks (2006)
Fox, A, McCormick, R, Carmichael, P, Procter, R
Networks provide ways of thinking about how teachers create and share knowledge about practice, which is at the core of experienced professionals’ learning. They have increasing importance as an...
The ‘Learning how to Learn’ project of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Teaching and Learning Research Programme in the UK has, over its four-year lifespan, employed a range of...
The Teaching and Learning Research Programme has an IT infrastructure designed to enhance research, development and user engagement. It was developed and is hosted at the Centre for Applied Research...
Using electronic tools to support a large development and research (2005)
Carmichael, P, Procter, R, James, M
In this paper we describe how the 'Learning How to Learn' project of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme has employed a range of electronic tools to enable communication, collaboration,...
James, M, McCormick, R, Marshall, B, Pedder, D, Carmichael, P
As this project draws to an end; this paper intends to provide an overview of the Learning How to Learn (LHTL) project. The project aimed to: 1). develop and extend recent work on ‘assessment for...
James, M, McCormick, R, Marshall, B, Pedder, D, Carmichael, P
The project aimed to link research conducted across organisational levels – in classrooms, in schools and across networks. This paper provides an overview of the project at the end of the funding...
Technology, Learning Relationships and Networks (2005)
Carmichael, P, Goodfellow, R, Thorpe, M
Online discussion and conferencing practices have typically been evaluated in terms of the metaphor of community, Wenger’s community of practice model has also encouraged use of computer mediated...
In this paper we describe how the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP), an eight-year, £30 million programme charged with supporting and developing educational research in the United...
Theorising and researching teacher learning across schools (2005)
This paper is an attempt to explore how we might think about and research networks. There is considerable interest in them, with the extensive Networked Learning Communities (NLC) from the National...
Network tools, software design and research design (2005)
Educational research projects are increasingly using network technologies to improve communication between project members, to safeguard data and analysis, and to engage with the ‘users’ of their...
Fox, A, Procter, R, Honour, L, Carmichael, P, McCormick, R
As part of the ‘Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks’ project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners’ views of the networks...
Learning about Assessment for Learning: a framework for discourse about classroom practice (2005)
Brandom, A-M, Carmichael, P, Marshall, B
‘Learning how to Learn – in classrooms, schools and networks’ is a four-year, multi-site project funded under the Economic and Social Research Council Teaching and Learning Research Programme...
Research archiving, user engagement and the semantic web (2004)
The ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme is committed not only to the conduct of high-quality research in education through its projects, research fellowships and thematic activities, but...
Carmichael, P, Procter, R, Honour, L
This paper reviews the contribution of electronic tools to the 'Learning how to Learn' project and discuss a number of analytical frameworks within which electronic tools for project management and...
A series of government initiatives has raised both the profile of ICT in the curriculum and the expectation that high quality teaching and learning resources will be accessible across electronic...
This conference paper describes how the extension of the Dublin Core Metadata set by domain-specific vocabulary capable of describing not only learning resources but also the classroom contexts in...
Non-industrial Civil Service Staff Statistics : British Isles, 1939-1999 (2001)
Rhodes, R.A.W., McMillan, J.M.A., Massey, A., Carmichael, P.
The aims of the project were: to analyse the factors propelling change in the Civil Service outside Whitehall; to create a database of the Civil Service outside Whitehall covering numbers of...
Non-specialist management of acute renal failure (2001)
Stevens, P.E., Tamimi, N.A., Al-Hasani, M.K., Mikhail, A.I., Kearney, E., Lapworth, R., ...
In a 12‐month prospective study of the initial management of patients with acute renal failure (ARF) in East Kent (population 593 000), we evaluated the initial...
Late onset interstitial nephritis associated with mesalazine treatment (1998)
Popoola, J, Muller, AF, Pollock, L, O'Donnell, P, Carmichael, P, Stevens, P
Oliguria in a renal graft: the role of ureteric catheterization (1996)
Fletcher, S., Gupta, S., Carmichael, P., Allsopp, L., Lodge, J. P. A., Newstead, C. G.
Atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis: from diagnosis to treatment
Carmichael, P., Carmichael, A.
Renovascular hypertension represents a form of correctable hypertension and preventable renal failure. Such patients need to be identified early so that specific therapy can be instigated. Patient...