ITTE knowledge mobilisation strategy

IT in Teacher Education Research Fellowship Programme

Phase 1: 2015-2016

Announcement of Awards

The ITTE committee were delighted with the community’s response to the launch of the ITTE Research Fellowship Programme. A number of good quality applications were received which underwent a rigorous internal and external scrutiny process.

In making a decision the panel used the stated criteria of:

• Leading a review and synthesis of existing research on a topic of interest within the field of digital technologies in educational settings (systematic literature review).
• Projects that support ITTE’s aim to enhance the use of digital technology in all phases of education through effective teacher education and training and across the range of any UK curriculum.

It was agreed to fund 4 teams in total for the 18 month period of the award. Team leaders have been notified of the outcome. For the period of the project participants are entitled to use the post nominal, ITTE Research Fellow and the, special ITTE Logo as stipulated in the organisation’s constitution.

The successful teams are:

• A review and synthesis of the literature around the use of social media in Initial Teacher Education.
  Team Leader: Alison Iredale, Leeds Beckett University.

• How technology-enhanced learning communities enable the dissemination and transfer of innovative pedagogies in teacher education.
  Team Leader: Helen Caldwell , University of Northampton

• Technology Enhanced Learning in the early years: a systematic review of published research 2005-2015
  Team Leader:Moira Savage, University of Worcester 

• Mobilising Learning: A synoptic review of learning supported by personal devices.
  Team Leader: David Longman (Independent, Abergavenny)

Project teams are supported by a dedicated online collaboration workspace provided by Knowledge Hub.

The final outcomes of the Fellowships which are to be completed within 18 months will be:

• a research review to be submitted for publication as an academic article in the Association’s journal Technology, Pedagogy and Education;
• a summary of the findings of the review published as a MESHGuide and written in a form accessible to practitioners;
• a presentation about the project at an ITTE annual conference in the year of completion.