London Knowledge Lab was a research centre in
Bloomsbury, London. It was founded in 2004 as a collaboration between the
Institute of Education
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (IOE) is the education school of University College London (UCL). It specialises in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties. Prior to ...
and
Birkbeck, University of London.
['ALT Lab Group: London Knowledge Lab' page. Association for Learning Technology Lab Group website. Available online at: ] It was an interdisciplinary research centre, bringing together over 50 researchers from both social sciences and computer science backgrounds. The Institute of Education and Birkbeck announced the end of their collaboration in February 2016.
['London Knowledge Lab moving on'. London Knowledge Lab website. Available online at: http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=625&Itemid=107 ] Both institutions are continuing the work in their own separate Knowledge Lab research centres.
['UCL Knowledge Lab'. UCL Knowledge Lab website, UCL Institute of Education. Available online at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-centres/centres/ucl-knowledge-lab]['Birkbeck University of London Knowledge Lab'. Department of Computer Science and Information Systems website, Birkbeck, University of London. Available online at: http://dcs.bbk.ac.uk/research/research-groups/lkl/]
Funding
The London Knowledge Lab was mainly funded by £6 million grant from the Science Research Investment Fund. In addition, it ran over 120 research projects,
['LKL Research'. London Knowledge Lab website. Available online at: http://www.lkl.ac.uk/research ] funded by a variety of funding bodies, including
EPSRC
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to univers ...
,
ESRC
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), formerly the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) funded by the UK government. ESRC provides fundi ...
,
Jisc
Jisc is a United Kingdom not-for-profit company that provides network and IT services and digital resources in support of further and higher education institutions and research as well as not-for-profits and the public sector.
History
T ...
, and the EU, amongst others. The
Technology Enhanced Learning research programme, a major UK educational research programme, was directed from the Knowledge Lab.
[Grant RES-139-34-0001: Teaching and Learning Research Programme, Technology Enhanced Learning. Economic and Social Research Council website. Available online at: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-139-34-0001/read]
Research themes
Research at London Knowledge Lab focused upon three themes:
['London Knowledge Lab / Research' page. London Knowledge Lab website. Available online at: http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=41&Itemid=109]
*Automating support for learning, collaboration and knowledge building
*Understanding how digital technologies and media affect educational practice, work, culture and society
*Developing innovative methodologies for investigation of the use and effect of digital technologies
References
External links
London Knowledge Lab websiteTLRP-TEL website- the
Teaching and Learning Research Programme
The Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) was the United Kingdom's largest investment in education research. It was initiated in 2000, ended in 2011 and was managed on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Councils by the Economic and ...
Technology-Enhanced Learning phase is run from the London Knowledge Lab
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University College London
UCL Institute of Education
Birkbeck, University of London
Educational technology research centers
Research institutes in London
Science and technology in London