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Open educational resources offer promise for more equitable teaching and learning

The past year and the pivot to online learning has highlighted and exacerbated inequities in education systems around the world. It is more apparent than ever that our schools must do better at...

Distance learning & initial teacher education: Making connections in a virtual world

The peaks and troughs of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to impact on almost every aspect of our daily lives, and initial teacher education (ITE) is by no means an exception. Reflecting on changes...

What sources of data did teachers use to inform remote teaching under Covid-19?

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Exploring how teachers collected and used data to make decisions about their practice while working in uncertain, rapidly changing conditions during lockdown and school closures, this report...

Educational Technology – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Educational Technology SIG aims: to to provide a meeting place for BERA members interested in the application and impact of new technologies in education across both...

The reawakening of the old idea of children doing AI programming

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

In the recently published British Journal of Educational Technology article, ‘Constructionism and AI: A history and possible futures’, Niall Winters and I examine the 50-year history of...

Esinam Afi Kayi wins the inaugural BJET International Fellowship

The British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET's) international fellowship has been awarded to Esinam Afi Kayi for her proposal, 'Examining the impact of blended learning on distance...

New teachers’ responses to Covid-19: Building on initial teacher education for professional learning

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

A great deal of international research has suggested that teachers struggled with the pivot towards online learning necessitated by the closure of schools in response to the Covid-19...

A case study of blended pedagogies used in an early years undergraduate degree

This case study explored the tensions of using digital technology alongside an outdoor, sensory approach to learning (Sakr, 2020; Hughes, 2011); the effects on student learning; and the...

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of 14 research projects  that have investigated Covid-19's impact on important aspects of education and educational research. This...

Access to education in a time of pan(dem)ic in Jamaica: Rural and urban primary schools’ experience

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

As the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic became clear, on 14 March 2020 the Jamaican government moved teaching and learning online and primary schools remained closed for the remainder of the school...

What have we learned about effectively using assessment data during remote learning over the past year?

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many teachers around the globe found themselves forced to teach in remote or online environments. This blog post explores initial findings about the assessment data...

Empowering marginalised parents to undertake home-schooling during Covid-19

The strains on the education system caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have forced many parents to have to contend with significant changes in their daily routines. A study of seven countries in...