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Stay calm and e-educate: Technology, education and mental wellbeing

In unprecedented times, maintaining education for learners across the spectrum has been a huge challenge, requiring educators to adapt quickly to online teaching and learning models. A vast array...

How has Covid-19 affected the way in which teacher educators engage their students with learning?

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

In this blog we seek to understand the impact that the sudden and enforced move to online teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the perceptions of teacher educators in initial teacher...

Describing young people’s use of digital technology

Scarcely a month goes by without something in the media about young people’s use of digital technology. This is often framed in negative terms related to concerns about excessive ‘screen...

Doing data differently

As various studies of teachers’ lives and work have explored, using attainment data in schools goes over and above what that data are designed to do. The datafication of schooling in England and...

Education during a pandemic: Lessons from the United Arab Emirates

Even before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic I was wondering, as a teacher and researcher, whether technology and digital platforms would replace teachers and traditional classrooms in the short...

Collaborative online international learning (COIL) in UK higher education: Reloaded

The concept of ‘collaborative online international learning’ (COIL) has been conceived as an educational approach that provides students from different geographical and linguacultural...

Why open educational resources are failing to widen access to education

Open educational resources (OERs) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that are freely available in the public domain. Current discussions about OERs are...

Leading the Future of Science and Technology Education in Wales: Professor Tom Crick

In the first episode of 2021, BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson interviews Professor Tom Crick (Swansea University) who is the recent recipient of the the 2020  BERA Public Engagement and Impact...

Winter 2020/2021

Digital technology in education Keeping pace with innovation Research Intelligence issue 145 Just as practitioners are struggling to keep up with the onslaught of new technologies entering the...

Meeting the needs of students with mental health challenges in online learning environments

Distance learning might seem to offer an ideal opportunity for students with mental health challenges to study for a degree, as it is flexible and can be done from home with the student...

How the BJET Fellowship helped shape my research

The 2019 BJET Fellowship was awarded to Sharon Smith (University of Chester) for her research proposal: “The use of online data collection methods to explore student perspectives on...

Evaluation of an immersive virtual learning environment for operator training in mechanical and plant engineering using video analysis

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) refers to computer-generated real-time, three-dimensional and interactive environments. Their use is associated with diverse potentials, such as spatially and...