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Ling Hsiao

Ling Hsiao is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Scheller Teacher Education Program. Her research interests include teacher development and how the...

Eric Klopfer

Eric Klopfer is a professor and director of Scheller Teacher Education Program and the Education Arcade at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work uses a design-based research...

Irene Lee

Irene Lee is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of Project GUTS: Growing Up Thinking Scientifically, a programme that enables participants to create and...

The ethics of using pedagogical agents in intelligent tutoring systems

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Recognising that learning is a social activity, intelligent tutoring systems enable learners to engage in (virtual) face-to-face social interactions with autonomous animated software characters,...

Tackling educational inequality

The questions, ‘What does the empirical evidence tell us about the achievement gap?’ and ‘What is proven good practice for closing the gap in educational inequality?’, are the subject of...

Feyisa Demie

Feyisa Demie is an honorary professor at Durham University, UK, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science (FAcSS). He has worked extensively for more than 30 years with local authorities,...

Deborah Richards

Deborah Richards is a professor in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her current research focus is on the use of intelligent virtual agents to improve the...

Virginia Dignum

Virginia Dignum is professor of social and ethical artificial intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden, and associated with the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her research...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Edge Hill)

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.  Discussants: Professor Amanda Fulford and Dr Mike...

Olga Mun

Doctoral Student

Born and raised in Kazakhstan, Olga grew up in a multi-ethnic Russo-Korean family. Her positionality as a researcher with an interest in comparative and international education with a focus on...

How research can inform teachers and teaching in schools

Despite renewed efforts in many countries to align educational practice more closely with findings from educational research, there is little clarity about how teachers can, in principle, use...

Tim Cain

Following a career in four secondary schools, Tim Cain taught on teacher education in several universities including Kingston University, Bath Spa University and the University of Southampton,...