Educational Research Design Module (Week 2)
The following is the research work I carried out on the week immediately after the class that took place on 25th April 2017. I was interested in finding out about the Horizon 2020 Newton Project as I was aware that Dr. Ioana Ghergulescu, Head of Research and Adaptive Learning, Adaptemy was involved in this project. Dr. Ghergulescu had previously advised me to read up on Professor Peter Brusilovsky’s work.
Horizon 2020 Newton Project
NEWTON is a large scale European-funded international project which involves 14 partners from 7 countries and is funded under Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (2016 – 2019).
NEWTON develops, integrates and disseminates innovative technology-enhanced learning (TEL) methods and tools, to create new or inter-connect existing state-of-the art teaching labs and to build a pan-European learning network platform that supports fast dissemination of learning content to a wide audience in a ubiquitous manner. NEWTON focuses on employing novel technologies in order to increase learner quality of experience, improve learning process and increase learning outcome.
CONTACTS
Contacts (DCU)
Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean
Tel: (01) 7007648
Email: gabriel.muntean@dcu.ie
Room: S326, Research & Engineering Building, School of Electronic Engineering.
http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~munteang
Contacts (NCI)
Dr. Cristina Muntean
Title: Project Principal Investigator (PI)
Tel: (01) 4498623
Email: cristina.muntean@ncirl.ie
Room: 3.16, Lecturer, School of Computing
https://www.ncirl.ie/Research/-Research-Projects/NEWTON-Project/NEWTON-Team-Members
Contacts (NCI)
Dr Pramod Pathak
Title: Project Co – Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Tel: (01) 4498611
Email: pramod.pathak@ncirl.ie
Room: 3.22, Dean of School of Computing
https://www.ncirl.ie/Research/-Research-Projects/NEWTON-Project/NEWTON-Team-Members
Contacts (NCI)
Dr. Arghir Nicolae Moldovan
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Tel: (01) 4498209
Email: arghirnicolae.moldovan@ncirl.ie
Room: none, Lecturer, School of Computing
https://www.ncirl.ie/Research/-Research-Projects/NEWTON-Project/NEWTON-Team-Members
Contacts (NCI)
Ms Josephine Andrews
Title: Research Assistant
Tel: None
Email: josephine.andrews@ncirl.ie
Room: none, Research Assistant, School of Computing
https://www.ncirl.ie/Research/-Research-Projects/NEWTON-Project/NEWTON-Team-Members
Contacts (Adaptemy)
Dr. Ioana Ghergulescu
Title: ???
Tel: (076) 888 6150
Email: hello@adaptemy.com,
Room: none, Head of Research and Adaptive Learning
https://www.adaptemy.com/about-us/
Contacts (Adaptemy)
Mr. Conor O’Sullivan
Title: ???
Tel: (01) 76 888 6150
Email: hello@adaptemy.com,
Room: none, CEO
https://www.adaptemy.com/about-us/
LINKS
Horizon 2020
The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020
Enhancing STEM Education
http://horizon2020projects.com/pr-knowledge-innovation/enhancing-stem-education/
NEWTON About
NEWTON at INTED2017 with “A New Experiential Model to Innovate the STEM Learning Process” and “Review of Virtual Labs as the Emerging Technologies for Teaching STEM Subjects”
March 2017
http://www.newtonproject.eu/2017/03/
NEWTON Coordinator DCU Dr Gabriel-Miro on Finding the best user experience for rich media over wireless networks
February 2017
NEWTON Mulsemedia-enhanced Teaching Laboratory Sessions
December 2016
http://www.newtonproject.eu/2016/12/
NEWTON at E-Learn 2016 with “An Evaluation Framework for Adaptive and Intelligent Tutoring Systems”
November 2016
www.newtonproject.eu/newton-at-e-learn-2016-with-an-evaluation-framework-for-adaptive-and-intelligent-tutoring-systems/
NEWTON at NCI
https://www.ncirl.ie/Research/-Research-Projects/Newton-Project
NEWTON Post-Doctoral Researcher Job Advert
https://www.ncirl.ie/About/Jobs-in-NCI/Current-Vacancies/Postdoctoral-Researcher-NEWTON-Project
NEWTON at DCU
https://www.dcu.ie/news/2016/mar/s0316h.shtml
https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/hr/Postdoctoral%20Researcher%20Electronic%20Engineering1.pdf
NEWTON at Adaptemy
https://www.adaptemy.com/research/
Adaptemy
https://www.adaptemy.com
Adaptemy Junior Cert Maths Knowledge Map
https://www.adaptemy.com/junior-cert-maths-knowledge-map/
Adaptemy Science
https://www.adaptemy.com/adaptemy-science/
Adaptemy Job Advert for NEWTON
https://www.adaptemy.com/we-are-hiring-a-senior-researcher/
N.B. Research skills required in ‘Assessment and evaluation of learning effectiveness’
EmpowerThe User
(software to build learning simulations)
http://www.etu.ie/
Check out Adaptemy links with DCU, NCI, Learnovate, Folens and HORIZON project. Also Learnovate links with TCD, Professor Vincent Wade, Fallons. Also EmpowerThe User links with Professor Vincent Wade.
Check out Folen’s BuildUp software and find out if it was developed in conjunction with Adaptemy
https://www.buildup.ie/
NEWTON at NCI
NEWTON Project
NEWTON is a large scale European-funded international project which involves 14 partners from 7 countries and is funded under Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (2016 – 2019).
NEWTON develops, integrates and disseminates innovative technology-enhanced learning (TEL) methods and tools, to create new or inter-connect existing state-of-the art teaching labs and to build a pan-European learning network platform that supports fast dissemination of learning content to a wide audience in a ubiquitous manner. NEWTON focuses on employing novel technologies in order to increase learner quality of experience, improve learning process and increase learning outcome.
The NEWTON project goals are to:
develop and deploy a set of new TEL mechanisms involving multi-modal and multi-sensorial media distribution.
develop, integrate, deploy and disseminate state of the art technology-enhanced teaching methodologies including augmented reality, gamification and self-directed learning addressed to users from secondary and vocational schools, third level and further education, including students with physical disabilities.
build a large platform that links all stakeholders in education, enables content reuse, supports generation of new content, increases content exchange in diverse forms, develops and disseminates new teaching scenarios, and encourages new innovative businesses
perform personalisation and adaptation for content, delivery and presentation in order to increase learner quality of experience and to improve learning process, and validate the platform impact and the effectiveness of the teaching scenarios in terms of user satisfaction, improvement of the learning and teaching experience, etc. and the underlying technology through an European-wide real-life pilot
Newton at NCI
National College of Ireland is a partner for the NEWTON project and aims to:
contribute with innovative learning pedagogical methods that make use of technology when teaching STEM subjects in secondary schools and 3rd level education institutions.
research innovative multi-sensorial media (mulsemedia) content delivery solutions that make use of olfactory, gustatory, tactile, and thermoceptive sensations, and how these can be employed for learner benefit.
design and build User Models that support content personalisation and adaptation.
assess the learning performance and learner satisfaction as result of applying various pedagogical methods.
Novel concepts emerging from the performed research are validated experimentally by integrating them into the teaching and learning process of a number of subjects delivered in 3rd level educational institutions as well as secondary schools.
National College of Ireland is leading Work package 4 of the NEWTON project that has the following objectives:
to identify and investigate innovative pedagogical methods that can be used to teach STEM subjects
to propose a suite of teaching solutions that make use of technology enhanced teaching and learning approaches
technology-enhanced teaching and learning approaches that use:
augmented reality
gamification-based learning
self-directed learning and teaching methods
to define a link between virtual labs (WP2) and the proposed pedagogical methods
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 688503.