WHITE PAPERS
Technology supported learning:
eLearning and Change Management: the challenge
A detailed study of the relationship between change management and eLearning, including new case studies featuring University for Lloyds TSB, Rolls-Royce plc, Somerfield Group and IDeA.
Incentives to the take-up of e-learning. This is a large study covering all aspects of the Post-16 sector with a particular focus on what factors act as incentives to the take up of e-learning.
Packaging and Publishing learning objects: Best Practice Guidelines
This is a comprehensive introduction to SCORM, and includes detailed best practice guidelines for content packaging and publishing, together with examples. The guide was commissioned by and written for Becta.
Blended Learning: a perspective
What does blended learning really mean? This short paper offers a perspective.
Guide to e-learning. a practical step-by-step introduction to the implementation of e-learning in a work-based context.
Knowledge Management:
Discourse and Knowledge Matters: can Knowledge Management be saved? (Forthcoming). An analysis of Knowledge Management theory, definition and debates, arguing that a fresh approach is needed. Discourse Psychology provides that approach.
Trust me, I'm an expert: identity construction and knowledge sharing. This study takes a discourse analysis approach to investigate how Knowledge Management practitioners construct their identities as expert with an entitlement to be heard in the context of an online discussion forum. (In Press, Journal of Knowledge Management)
Crane, L. (2011). What do knowledge managers manage? Practitioners' discourse in an online forum compared and contrasted with the literature. Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, Vol 12, No. 4, December 2011. A detailed discourse analytic study of the talk in a knowledge managers' discussion form on how they approach knowledge management, contrasted with debates and issues in the literature.
Web 2.0 and all that: can Web 2.0 save knowledge management? A briefing paper on Web 2.0 and its implications for knowledge management.
The psychological approach:
The Basic Cognitive Processes of Learning: This short discussion paper introduces the basic human cognitive processes which support the process of learning in adults, focusing on speech comprehension, written word recognition and visual perception.
Hierarchical Retrieval Schemes in Effective Learning Strategies: This report explores the learning and free recall strategies used by students in an experimental study of context in learning and recall performance.
Staring you in the face: fixation and problem solving
This paper explores the impact of fixation on problem solving abilities, and is the result of a controlled experiment involving more than 30 people.
Information Management:
Controlled vocabularies vs. Full text indexing. This discussion paper raises and investigates issues raised through the comparison of controlled vocabularies and full text indexing, and their respective impact on search experiences.
An ergonomics study of tagging. This report examines the task of applying a machine-readable vocabulary of terms to digital records to enable their discovery using search engines. The study uses an ergonomics approach to the task.
Accessibility and inclusivity with ICT:
The noise and the silence: making sense of accessibility and inclusivity in ICT. This paper investigates the debates and tensions around interpretations of accessibility and inclusivity in the drive to implement ICT in education.
Using technology creatively to engage hard-to-reach learners. An investigation of how one particular UK local authority could make best use of ICT to engage those learners considered to be hard to engage with using traditional means.
