Notes from the TLRP TEL seminar on Capacity Building (16/1/2007)

• 4 main "research challenges" were in the call - many proposals did not mention ANY of them:
  • personalization
  • inclusion
  • flexibility
  • productivity
• don't just mention them for the sake of it, show how you address them. you don;t need to address ALL of them....
• there were very few references to "capacity building" in the proposals
• you must demonstrate awareness of TLRP's aims
• Interdisciplinarity is key
• Keen to get new young researchers into the field
• Users of the tech should be active participants, not passive subjects
• Need more awareness of the other TLRP projects - look at their website http://www.tlrp.org/, and make use of existing/former TLRP work
• If possible involve teacher-resarchers in the project
• Can you bring commercial partners in ?
• Proposals need a "theoretical framework" (proposals from CS were strong on this)
• Proposals shuld state how to evaluate learning outcomes - but this is more that pre- and post- tests: what do you mean by "learning" and how can you measure it?
• there is a key feedback report from Andrew Pollard, director of TLRP somewhere at http://www.tlrp.org/ (i can't find it) that we should read.

-- OliverLemon - 24 Jan 2007