Mark Gaved's profile document
Description for Mark Gaved
Mark Gaved
Mark Gaved
Mark
Gaved
Research Associate
I am a postdoc researcher at the Open University working on the MASELTOV project (<a href="http://www.maseltov.eu" class="people">http://www.maseltov.eu</a>) exploring how mobile phones might support language learning and social inclusion for recent migrants to the EU. My particular focus is on incidental learning (unplanned or unintentional learning) that takes place in everyday life. The OU team, based in the Institute of Educational Technology is developing an Incidental Learning Framework, and considering how feedback and progress indicators might motivate and supporting learning.
Research interests: mobile, networked, and locative learning technologies, informal learning and community based research.
For my PhD research, I worked with communities that developed their own computer network infrastructure to support their activities, and explored the challenges they faced in developing sustainable local community solutions to the digital divide and supporting neighbourhood approaches to technology enhanced social interactions. I believe that networked tools may prove to be as important for supporting local as much as remote interactions. The internet may reduce the friction of space, but not the importance of place. This work continues in my participation in the Enabling Remote Activity (ERA) project: (<a href="http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/era/" class="people">http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/era/ </a>)
The Open University account for Mark Gaved
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Mark Gaved's membership at KMi
Mark Gaved's participation in The Bookshelf Project
The Bookshelf Project
The Bookshelf Project
Find out who has which books using ISBN and web service lookup
Lending and borrowing books is common amongst groups of people who share similar interests. In such a community there is a fairly high chance that if you need to borrow a particular book, then another member will have a copy. The difficulty is finding out which member of the community has it, without having to bother all of them with the question. The Bookshelf Project was originally conceived to solve this problem for staff working at the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University in the UK.
Mark Gaved's participation in Open Guide to Milton Keynes
Open Guide to Milton Keynes
Open Guide to Milton Keynes
2006-04-01
Community guide to Milton Keynes that anyone can edit
The Open Guide to Milton Keynes is part of the OpenGuides network of free, community-maintained wiki guidebooks to places around the world. Anyone is free to contribute, whether it's by writing new articles or editing existing articles. The OpenGuides are developed with the Semantic Web in mind; metadata is organised to allow easy machine-readable output, in order to enable re-usage by other web services.
The guide has been set up to investigate the application of semantic web technologies in a locality based resource, to provide a service to the local Milton Keynes community, and to explore the possibilities of wiki based social software.
The Milton Keynes Open Guide is kindly hosted and provided with technical support by Chris Schmidt from the Open Guide to Boston.
Chris Shmidt homepage - http://crschmidt.net
Open Guide to Boston website - http://boston.openguides.org
Mark Gaved's participation in ERA
ERA
ERA
2007-10-01
Enabling Remote Activity
ERA (Enabling Remote Activity) is an Open University project that supports remote participation by students in fields studies trips. Using a wireless network, digital stills and video cameras and two way audio communications, students are enabled to gather data and otherwise interact with colleagues in remote locations.
The project has supported Earth Sciences summer schools in 2006 (Kindrogan) - 2007 (Heath and Reach), providing local network access and internet connectivity to the field. Future summer school support is planned for 2008.
This website will tell you about the project, the equipment we've used, and introduces the team.
Mark Gaved's participation in Personal Inquiry
Personal Inquiry
Personal Inquiry
Designing for evidence-based inquiry learning across formal and informal settings
The Personal Inquiry (PI) project is a collaboration between the University of Nottingham and researchers from CREET and KMi in The Open University. The aim of PI is to develop a new approach of scripted inquiry learning in which students aged 11-14 can use personal technologies to guide scientific investigations that span the classroom, home and field locations.
Activities will be based around topic themes - Myself, My Environment, My Community - that engage young learners in investigating their health, diet and fitness, their immediate environment and their wider surroundings. These topics are key elements of the new 21st century science curriculum that requires students to reason about the natural sciences as a complex system and to explore how people relate to the physical world.
Other partners include Hadden Park High School in Nottingham, Oakgrove School in Milton Keynes, ScienceScope, a company that develops sensing and datalogging equipment, Nottingham Museums and Galleries, Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre and Gulliver's Eco-Park, Milton Keynes.
PI is a three year project funded by the UK ESRC and EPSRC research councils.