Technologies for STEM learning

The use of smart phones to enhance teaching in environmental engineering and environmental science modules

Suresh NesaratnamShahram Taherzadeh

This study considered the availability of smart phone environmental apps that could be used in the teaching of environmental engineering and environmental science. Several apps in the field of noise, water and air were found to be freely available on the Internet.

December 2013 to September 2014

Understanding the challenges of learning to program at level 2

Chris Douce

Learning to program is a skill that some students struggle with. TT284, Web Technologies, requires students to write code using a number of different programming languages: Javascript, PHP and Google AppInventor. Many students who take TT284 would have completed TU100, My Digital Li

December 2013 to October 2015

Hybrid/Digital Networked Learning scruffy mongrel or sleek new breed?

Elaine ThomasSteve WalkerSarah Davies

The ‘Hybrid Digital Material Networked Learning’ project or 'The Mongrel Project’ aimed to explore learning experiences involving networked physical and digital resources.

December 2012 to November 2015

iChart - Interactive Exploration of Data Charts

Michel Wermelinger

Data charts are used in many magazines, newspapers and official reports. Data journalism is on the rise. Big data is a familiar buzz word. And yet the public in general often does not have an easy way to explore the data and statistics that are thrown at them to justify a particular argument.

April 2011 to July 2013

Infinite Bandwidth Zero Latency - IBZL2

Steve Walker

IBZL is a thought experiment. It starts from the question: what if bandwidth (and latency) in networks like the internet didn't matter any more? What would become possible?

April 2011 to February 2012

Geospatial technologies in distance learning and teaching in Science

Tom ArglesSarah Davies

Geospatial technologies (that underpin services such as Google Earth™, ArcGIS™, remote sensing and GPS) can be used to help students grasp difficult or threshold concepts, such as 3D visualisation, and improve their spatial thinking skills, or ‘spatial literacy’.

April 2011 to November 2014

Creative Climate Learning: common resources on environmental change

Joe Smith

Creative Climate is a long-term online environmental communications initiative that gathers accounts of people’s understanding and action on environmental change issues.

April 2011 to June 2012

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