Professor Rose Luckin

  • Qualifications and position:
    • PhD
    • Professor of Learner Centred Design
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communication and Media
  • Centre:
    • London Knowledge Lab
  • Summary:
    • My research explores how to scaffold learning across multiple technologies, locations, subjects and times. I apply participatory methods to the development and evaluation of TEL. This work is interdisciplinary and investigates the relationship between people, their context, the concepts they are learning, and the resources at their disposal.
  • Research Projects:
    • • SCARLET: SCAffolding Rich Learning Experiences through Technology
      • E-goals: Exploring a goal-oriented approach to learner modelling and metacognitive software scaffolding.
      • Towards making Grid-enabled schools e-Science usable and re-usable for and with teachers.
      • VESEL: Village e-Science for Life
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • • Socio-Cultural theory as applied to Technology for Learning
      • Learning, Context and the role of Technology
      • Participatory Design

      Research Interests include:
      • Scaffolding learning through Technology
      • Higher Order Thinking Skills and Motivation with respect to learning with Technology
      • Technology, Education and Policy in the UK
      • ICT4D.

      Pervasive and Ubiquitous Technology for Learning
      • Augmented Reality and Learning
      • Web 2.0 Technology and Learning

      Current Research Students:
      • Joshua Underwood: Designing Technology Enhanced Learning Contexts
      • Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou: Leadership and E-Learning
      • Damien Darcy: Hybrid Learning Ecologies
  • Professional Activities:
    • • EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
      • Non-executive director of BECTA
      • Chair Becta research Advisory Group
      • Member of the Advisory Board of the Technology Enhanced Learning Programme
      • Member of the EPSRC Computing College
      • Member of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Editorial Board
      • Member of the Interactive Learning Environments Editorial Board
      • Member of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education Management Board
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Recent Invited Conference Presentations:

      March 2007 CAL 07 Dublin: Who are the revolutionaries?
      • June 2007 Ed-Media Vancouver: Mind the Gap: bridging the home school divide through contextualized activities and personalized mobile technology.
      • JISC on-line conference 2008: Going boldly into the dark: Who will drive the learning process? What is the future of the relationship between learners, their tutors and institutions?
Professor Rose Luckin

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communication and Media
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Level 3
    23-29 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QS

Publications

  • Luckin, R., Clark, W., Graber, R., Logan, K., Mee, A., Oliver, M. (2009) 'Do Web 2.0 tools really open the door to learning: practices, perceptions and profiles of 11-16 year old learners', Learning Media and Technology 34, 2, 87-104.
  • Harris, A. Yuill, N and Luckin, R. (2008) 'The influence of context-specific and dispositional achievement goals on children's paired collaborative interaction', The British Journal of Educational Psychology 78(3), 355-374.
  • Luckin, R. (2008) 'The learner centric ecology of resources: A framework for using technology to scaffold learning', Computers and Education 50(2), 449-462.
  • Luckin, R., du Boulay, B., Underwood, J., Holmberg, J., Kerawalla, L., O'Connor, J., Smith, H. and Tunley, H. (2006) 'Designing Educational Systems Fit for Use: A Case Study in the Application of Human Centred Design for AIED', International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 16, 353-380.
  • Kerawalla, C., Luckin, R., Seljeflot, S. and Woolard, A. (2006) '"Making it real": Exploring the potential of Augmented Reality for teaching primary school science', Virtual Reality, Special Issue: "Using Virtual Reality in Education" 10(3-4), 163-174.
  • Luckin, R., du Boulay, B., Smith, H., Underwood, J., Fitzpatrick, G., Holmberg, J., Kerawalla, L., Tunley, H., Brewster, D. and Pearce, D. (2005) 'Using Mobile Technology to Create Flexible Learning Contexts', Journal of Interactive Media in Education, Special Issue on Portable Learning – Experiences with Mobile Devices
  • Luckin, R. (2003) 'Between the Lines: documenting the multiple dimensions of computer supported collaborations', Computers and Education (Special issue on Documenting Collaborative Interactions) 41(4), 379-396.
  • Luckin, R., Connolly, D., Plowman, L. and Airey, S. (2003) 'With a little help from my friends: children's interactions with interactive toy technology', Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Special issue on Children and Technology), 165-176.
  • Luckin, R., Plowman, L., Laurillard, D., Stratfold, M., Taylor, J., and Corben, S. (2001) 'Narrative evolution: learning from students' talk about species variation', International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 12, 100-123.
  • Luckin, R., and du Boulay, B. (1999) 'Designing a Zone of Proximal Adjustment', International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Education 10(2), 198-220.