London Knowledge Lab is a research centre in Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury

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, London. It was founded in 2004 as a collaboration between the Institute of Education

Institute of Education

The Institute of Education is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom specialised in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It is the largest education research body in the United Kingdom, with...

 and Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...

. It is an interdisciplinary research centre, bringing together over 50 researchers from both social sciences and computer science backgrounds.

Funding

The Knowledge Lab is mainly funded by £6 million grant from the Science Research Investment Fund. In addition, it has over 35 research projects at present, funded by a variety of funding bodies, including EPSRC, ESRC, JISC, and the EU, amongst others. The Technology Enhanced Learning research programme, a major UK educational research programme, is directed from the Knowledge Lab.

Research themes

Research at London Knowledge Lab focuses upon three themes:

• Automating support for learning, collaboration and knowledge building
• Understanding how digital technologies and media affect educational practice, work, culture and society
• Developing innovative methodologies for investigation of the use and effect of digital technologies

External links

• London Knowledge Lab website
• TLRP-TEL website - the Teaching and Learning Research Programme
  Teaching and Learning Research Programme
  The Teaching and Learning Research Programme is the United Kingdom's Economic and Social Research Council's largest investment in education research. It was initiated in 2000 and is expected to end in 2011. The programme incorporates 700 researchers in 70 projects, which cover all education...
  
  Technology-Enhanced Learning phase is run from the London Knowledge Lab