BRILLE & Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL) SIG

1. Bristol Centre for Research in Lifelong
Learning and Education (BRILLE)
&
Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL) SIG

2. Bristol Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning and
Education (BRILLE)
 Home page: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/research/brille/aboutus.aspx
 BRILLE conducts theoretical through to applied research revolving around
three distinctive yet complementary research themes
 Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL) – John Cook
 Investigating the application of Technology Enhanced Learning to mediate,
augment, support and transform learning
 Researching Children and Young People – Penelope Harnett
 Focussing on the lived experiences of children and young people and
analyses different policy and social contexts which impact on their lives
 Post-compulsory education, social justice and the student experience – Richard
Waller
 Working in areas of further, higher and work-based education. It also
investigates issues of education and social justice and the experience of
students across all phases and sites of education

4. Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL)
 Home page: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2435
 Designing for Digital Learners or D4DL is an open Special Interest Group (SIG)
that investigates the application of Technology Enhanced Learning or TEL (e.g.
mobile devices and social media) to mediate, augment, support and/or
transform learning.
 The nature of learning is being enhanced and mediated by the likes of mobile
devices and the networks and media to which they connect people.
 Consequently, there is a need to re-examine approaches to the design of, and
research into, learning experiences that incorporate TEL within learning
contexts. Interdisciplinary research focus (from theoretical all the way through
to applied).
 This research theme will follow an ‘educational design research’
methodological approach; this is an approach that tends to have interventionist
characteristics, is process oriented and contributes to theory building.

5. Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL)
 D4DL also takes a pedagogically driven approach to investigating learning,
mediated by digital media, across a variety of contexts (e.g. FE, HE, schools,
work-based, informal).
 Digital media can include such innovations as augmented reality, location
based services and the affordances of mobile devices and social media in
general.
 We are open to those thinking about research, to those with a clear agenda for
a Masters, EdD or Doctoral study, or if you have finished one of these and are
thinking ‘what next’, or if you are an established researchers, etc
 See Designing for Informal and Lifelong Learning (DILL) at
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ltri//research/informal.htm for an overview of my
previous work in this area