Next week in Edinburgh there is a Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) seminar on developing research capacity. The seminar ties in with a 2nd call in the EPSRC and ESRC TEL strand. We anticipate that there will be representation there from Glasgow Caledonian University.

The TEL call was intended to support academics and user partners in building substantial and sustainable capacity for further interdisciplinary research on technology-enhanced learning. However, few proposals addressed this directly or provided innovative approaches to this challenge. This seminar should be of interest to all those with development awards, shortlisted for large awards or thinking about submitting proposals to the second round of TEL funding.

Prof. Stephen Baron (TLRP Associate Director for Capacity Building) will provide an introduction to initiatives in this area. Jim McNally (University of Stirling) and Lesley Walker (Forfar Academy) will provide different perspectives as a PI and as a teacher on a TLRP project in which teacher ethnographers conduct research in their own settings. This will be followed by presentation of initial findings from an analysis of all the 120+ proposals submitted to the first round of funding for the TEL programme as well as commentary on the assessors reviews of those proposals. There will then be opportunities to make concrete suggestions for ways in which we can develop capacity in TEL and inform the second round of funding.

More information and registration at http://www.tlrp.org/tel/tel_events.html