Melissa Highton's blog

This year I have been part of the research group in Oxford University Dept  of Education concerned with topics such as learners’ experience outside formal education; learner voice; online cultures; as well as developments and trends in learners’ behaviour and experience. The group are working on a project for BECTA. The outputs from year 1 of the research project are now available online. 

Harnessing Technology: The learner and their context – interim report

Harnessing Technology: The learner and their context – Mapping young people’s uses of technology in their own contexts – A nationally representative survey

Harnessing Technology: The learner and their context – Choosing to use technology: How learners construct their learning lives in their own contexts -Key findings from the first year of research

Harnessing Technology: The learner and their context – Increasingly autonomous: Learners using technology in the context of their family lives and beyond – 14 individual case studies

Harnessing Technology: The learner and their context – Increasingly autonomous: Learners using technology in the context of their family lives and beyond – Analysis of a series of case studies conducted with learners in their homes