Research & Study Services

Investments in research in education are often funded by tax payers’ money. These investments are aimed at improving our society. However, the conclusions of many research projects in the field of learning and teaching are not always disseminated and sometimes they never get implemented. Research sometimes is contradictory.

We aim to bridge the gap between research and practice, which is at the core of real innovation.

We would like to bring together existing research in the field of innovative education and teaching and find out in which ways it could be applied to specific situations. Therefore we want to go beyond statistically based research and explore the complex context in which many educational institutions operate.

We would like to collaborate with networks willing to co-operate with regard to the creative development of new practices for specific educational scenarios.  Formal as well as informal ways of education in particular contexts will be considered. We believe in customized solutions.

We already examined an institutional newcomer with a new organisational model for higher education, a virtual university, aspiring to be a “real” university. Carried out over the periods 2002-2003 and 2008-2009, the research process aimed to identify in which way the strategy of this virtual university is different with regard to the core values of traditional higher education: research and teaching and learning profiting from a community on a physical campus. It also aimed to identify why and how it can better address increasing needs and pressures. Moreover, it looked at ways this model could inspire traditional universities confronted with multiple tasks caused by complex missions.

This research project coincides with a growing awareness in public policy debates in the UK and elsewhere of the importance of realizing the transformative power of ICT, which allows for collaborative ways of knowledge construction based on learning demands from the student. The project looks at this subject in a non-technological way.

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