Interactive Education Project
Bristol University
From 2001 to 2004 some of our leading consultants were Visiting Research Fellows at the University of Bristol (UK), as part of the Interactive Education research project, the largest study of its kind ever in the UK. We developed ideas and resources for the classroom which were subsequently trialled in schools and their impact evaluated. The project also gave us the opportunity to work with other teachers, academics and software and hardware providers to establish how new technologies enhance teaching and learning.
We learned a good deal through participation in this project, especially in the fields of creativity and multi-modality in learning, as well as the impact of audio/visual media. Key to our experience was the realisation that ICT could make a great contribution to pupil-centred learning and our subsequent understanding of how this affects the teacher’s role in the classroom. The final report of this project will be published shortly.
