Seminar 1: What do we know about researching Elearning?

Seminar 2: Research methodological issues in e-learning research

April 15th, The University of Southampton.

The keynote speaker will be Melody Thompson, of the Pennsylvania State University.

Seminar 3: How can we best research such learning in electronic communities?

6th July 2005, University of Bristol

International speaker: Mizuko Ito, Department of Anthropology and Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California.

Seminar 4: Elearning policy informed by elearning research

30th November 2005, University of Manchester

Speakers will include: Professor Diana Laurillard, Chair of Learning with Digital Technologies, London Knowledge Laboratory; Professor Robert-Jan Simons, Director for the Centre of ICT, Utrecht; and Nick Burbules, Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor, Dept of Educational Policy studies University of Illinois.

Seminar 5: Researching the immediate world

16 March 2006 at The University of Leeds

The focus of this seminar will be the challenge of researching communication in newer communication spaces. Young people entering Higher Education prefer immediate communication, such as mobile phones and synchronous discussions, and there is increasing use of blogs and wikis. All of these create challenges for researchers.

Seminar 6: Online Learning Communities: the Implications of Research

13 July 2006 at the University of Sheffield

The purpose of this seminar is to examine the aims, methodologies and achievements of research into online learning communities.