Scoping a vision for formative e-assessment

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The Institute of Education, London is one of the premier international institutions in the fields of teacher education and of research into all aspects of educational practice, theory and policy. The main activities of the IoE include research and scholarship of national and international significance, which builds on the Institute’s strong research base; high quality, innovative postgraduate and post-experience teaching programmes; the promotion of new ideas in policy and professional practice grounded in its research and teaching expertise; consultancy and other services to support the quality of the educational system as a whole. The Institute has consistently been awarded the very highest rank in the UK for its research activity. Members of staff at the Institute have extensive experience in working on JISC-related projects, in particular as concerns the JISC e-Framework Programme.

The Centre for Excellence in Work-based Learning for Education Professionals works with key partners to transform current models of work-based learning. This responds to the diversity of professional learning needs emerging not only in education, but also in fields such as accountancy, medicine, nursing, pharmaceutics, finance and management. The Centre undertakes and uses research to enhance professional practice and focuses inter alia on the use of new technologies to innovate teaching and learning as well as on assessment. The Centre has a strong network of Associates, in particular in the fields of health education a number of whom are experienced practitioners of formative e-assessment. The Centre has also got ready access to the innovative work of the national CETL network and is able, through its networks, to draw on practice in a range of international partner institutions.

The London Knowledge Lab is a unique collaboration between the Institute of Education, London and Birkbeck. The Lab brings together computer and social scientists from a very broad range of fields, including education, sociology, semiotics, data mining, information management, personalisation and ubiquitous technologies. This allows the Lab to tackle issues from many different perspectives, and this is reflected in its mission, to understand the place of digital technologies and media in our cultural, social and educational relationships with knowledge – finding, acquiring, creating, and sharing it; design, build and evaluate systems, processes and interfaces that enhance learning, both formal and informal, throughout life; and examine critically the assumptions about knowledge and learning that underlie the increasingly wide range of applications of digital technologies. The Lab’s research aims to explore and invent the roles of technology in the processes of learning and teaching, and to understand how technology relates to broader social, economic and cultural factors.