Research

Use this section of the site to find out about business simulation research and what published works are saying about the use of technology to support effective teaching and training.

Use the findings to explore opportunities for integrating new approaches into your own teaching & learning programs.

If you would like us to share any other education research or articles that you think would be relevant to this page, please get in touch.

 

Document on the topic of online education and eLearning which brings together the series of articles submitted to the UK National Support Service for EPALE.

Provides an insight to online education and eLearning from a national perspective and for discussion amongst researchers and academics within the profession.

 

Author : Michael Stewart, Founder director, iDi 

Six individual trajectories of digital technology are enabling the ambitious goal of a responsive, personalized digital learning environment for higher education.

 

Author : Malcolm Brown, Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)

This study, commissioned by the HEA and the QAA, focuses on directed independent learning practices in UK higher education.

It investigates what stakeholders (including academic staff and students) have found to be the most effective practices in the inception, design, quality assurance and enhancement of directed independent learning and explores how best to promote effective practice to stakeholders.

Authors : Professor Liz Thomas, Dr Robert Jones and Dr James Ottaway

With technology use on the increase in the workplace, more and more companies are looking to deploy innovative approaches to train staff.

This report looks at the benefits of technology use, some of the implementation barriers and how employees are being engaged so that organisations maximise their investment.

Authors  Learn Direct

This report is one of a series within the HEA project ‘Flexible Pedagogies: preparing for the future’.

It focuses on how elearning, also known as 'technology-enhanced-learning', may support flexible pedagogies, and so encompass a range of topics where technology can enable new choices for learners. 

Author : Neil Gordon

The view that entrepreneurship education should be based on experiential approaches to learning is gaining ground.

However, there is both little discussion in the literature on what form experiential education should take. There is also a paucity of examples of experiential approaches to learning. This paper helps to fill these gaps.

Authors : Colin Mason and Norin Arshed

In September 2011, a taskforce was charged with developing a set of recommendations for new approaches in learning methodologies and educational technologies that will add value to RIT’s position in higher education.

This taskforce facilitated interviews with RIT stakeholders, completed benchmark research and prepared a number of summaries for RIT leadership. All  details can be found within this report.

Authors : Rochester Institute of Technology