Résumé
for John Cook
John Cook (PhD MSc BSc CEng MBCS CITP FHEA) is
Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University. He is
attached to the Education Studies Cluster in the Faculty of
Humanities, Arts, Languages and Education. John was part
of the successful Educations RAE submission; London Metropolitan University
appeared in the upper quintile of the 2008 RAE Education UoA
ranking, achieving a Grade Point Average of 2.45. His own publications
were rated 3*/4* in a 2007 mock RAE (the external was the former
Chair of the 2000 RAE Education UoA). John has over 14 years previous
experience as a full-time lecturer at various HEIs and in 2007
was made a University Teaching Fellow. He has over 9 years project
management experience, which includes AHRB, BECTA, HEFCE (CETL Manager
2005-2008) and EC work. Furthermore, John has been part of research
and development grant proposals that have attracted over £4 million
in competitive external funding. In addition, he has published/presented
around 220 refereed articles and invited talks in the
area of TEL, having a specific interest in five related areas: informal
learning, mobile learning, augmented contexts for development, user-generated
contexts and work-based learning. John is a founding member of The
London Mobile Learning Group (http://www.londonmobilelearning.net).
He was Chair/President of the Association for Learning Technology
(2004-06), he is currently the Chair of ALT’s Research Committee and
is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee ‘Learning and
Teaching Practice Experts Group’. John sits
on various journal editorial boards
and conducts Assessor and review work for the
ESRC, EPSRC, EU, UK Government and Science
Foundation of Ireland. In 2010 he was invited to serve on the
ESRC Peer Review College.
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Indicative publications
and recent invited/keynote talks (UPDATED 11/08/10)
- Cook, J. (2011). Design
Research Approach to Putting Learning into Context with Mobile
Devices. Invited talk at ELI 2011,
Second International Conference on eLearning and Distance Learning.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 21-23 February 2011.
- Cook, J., Pachler, N. and
Bachmair, B. (accepted). Ubiquitous Mobility with Mobile Phones: A
Cultural Ecology for Mobile Learning. E-Learning and Digital
Media.
Special Issue on Media: Digital, Ecological and Epistemological.
(email for pre-print)
- Smith, C., Bradley, C., Cook,
J. and Pratt-Adams, S. (accepted). Designing for Deep and Active
Learning: Putting Learning into Context with Mobile Devices. In
Anders D. Olofsson and J. Ola Lindberg (Eds), Informed Design of
Educational Technologies in Higher Education: Enhanced Learning and
Teaching. IGI Global.
Due 2011.
- Cook, J. (2010). Mobile
Phones as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for
Development. Invited talk University
Stockholm, 3rd September, 2010. http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook/cook-acd-sudsv2010
- Cook, J. (2010). Mobile Phones
as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for Development.
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2(3), 1-12. (see http://bit.ly/czg9k6
or email for pre-print)
- Pachler, N., Cook, J. and
Bachmair, B. (2010). Appropriation of Mobile Phones and
Learning. International Journal of Mobile and Blended
Learning. 2(1), 1-21. (see http://bit.ly/9DfEon or email for pre-print)
- Cook., J.
(2010). Contribution to ALT's 'What research has to say for
practice' Wiki resource: http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/index.php/What_research_has_to_say_for_practice
- Pachler, N., Bachmair, B. and
Cook, J. (2010). Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices.
New York: Springer. Publisher's page: http://bit.ly/7i5asL
- Cook, J. (2010). Mobile Phones
as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for Development.
Extended Abstract in E. Brown (Ed.) Education in the Wild:
Contextual and Location-Based Mobile Learning in Action. PDF:
http://bit.ly/dfB1ak
- Holley, D., Bradley, C.
Greaves, L. and Cook, J. (2009). “You Can Take Out of it What you
Want” – How Learning Objects Within Blended Learning Designs
Encourage Personalised Learning. In John O’Donoghue (Ed.)
Technology Supported Environment for Personalised Learning:
Methods and Case Studies. IGI Global.
- Cook,
J. (2009). Invited talk: E-Learning in its Element: Building
Informal Learning and Research. ESRC National Centre for Research
Methods E-Learning Event, Work-Based Learning for Education centre,
Institute of Education, November 2009. http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook/cook-esrc-national-centre-for-research-methods
- Cook, J. (2009). Scaffolding
the Mobile Wave. Keynote at Institutional Impact, a JISC online
conference, 9th July 2009. See http://ssbr0709.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/programme/
- Cook, J. (2009). Phases of
Mobile Learning. Invited lecture at Joint European Summer School on
Technology Enhanced Learning 2009. Terchova, Slovakia, May 30 - June
6. See: http://tinyurl.com/psejxu
- Bachmair, B., Pachler, N. and
Cook, J. (2009). Mobile Phones as Cultural Resources of Learning, an
Education Analysis of Structures, Mobile Expertise and Cultural
Practices. MedienPädagogik online journal. See http://www.medienpaed.com/2009/bachmair0903.pdf
- Cook, J. (2009). The Digitally Literate Learner and the Appropriation of New Technologies and Media for Education. Inaugural Professorial Lecture, Holloway Road, London Metropolitan University. Slides available: http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook
- Bradley, C., Haynes,
R., Cook, J., Boyle, T. and Smith, C. (2009). Design and Development
of Multimedia Learning Objects for Mobile Phones. In Mohamed Ally
(Ed.) Mobile Learning in Education and Training. Athabasca
University Press. PDF
of book
- Cook,
J., Pachler, N. and Bradley, C. (2008). Bridging the Gap?
Mobile Phones at the Interface between Informal and Formal
Learning. Journal of the Research Center for Educational
Technology, Spring. Available from:
http://www.rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/view/34
- Cook,
J., Patchler, N. and Bradley, C. (2007). Whither Case-Cased
Approaches to Understanding Off-Site and On-Campus Mobile
Learning? Paper presented at Workshop on Research
Methods in Informal and Mobile Learning: How to get the data we
really want, 14 December, WLE Centre, Institute of Education
London, UK. Download book from:
http://www.wlecentre.ac.uk/cms/files/events/book.pdf
- Cook,
J., Bradley, C., Lance, J., Smith, C. and Haynes, R. (2007).
Generating Learning Contexts with Mobile Devices. In Norbert
Pachler (Ed.), Mobile Learning: Towards a Research Agenda,
WLE Occasional Papers in Work-Based Learning 1, London.
Download book from:
http://www.wlecentre.ac.uk/cms/files/occasionalpapers/mobilelearning_pachler2007.pdf
- Cook,
J., Holley, D. and Andrew, D. (2007). A Stakeholder Approach to
Implementing E-Learning in a University. British Journal of
Education Technology, 38(5), 784–794.
- Cook, J. (2007). Invited talk - Generating
New Learning Contexts: Novel Forms of Reuse and Learning on the
Move. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (Eds.), Proceedings of
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications 2007 (pp. 2766-2779). Chesapeake, VA:
AACE.
Full
paper
from proceedings.
- Cook,
J. (2007). Smells Like Teen Spirit: Generation CX. Ideas
in Cyberspace Education (ICE3),
21-23 March, Loch Lomond, Scotland. Abstract: http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/ice3/papers/cook.html
- Cook, J.
and Light, A. (2006). New Patterns of Power and Participation?
Designing ICT for Informal and Community Learning. E-Learning.
Special Issue of ICE2 Symposium, 3(1), 51-61. Available:
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_1.asp
or final
draft
- Cook, J.
and Smith, M. (2004). Beyond Formal Learning: Informal
Community eLearning . Computers and
Education , CAL03 Special Issue, 43(1-2), 35-47.
PDF
of final draft
- Cook, J. (2002). The Role
of Dialogue in Computer-Based Learning and Observing Learning: An
Evolutionary Approach to Theory. Journal of Interactive Media in
Education, 5. Paper online: www-jime.open.ac.uk/2002/5
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Indicative
recent projects
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October 2010. mLeMan
(m-Learning Manager). This new Leonardo da Vinci project is led by
Plovdiv University in Bulgaria and has a total budget of 475,351
euro. The total budget for LTRI is 84,731 euro or £70,657. John Cook
leads for LTRI; Carl Smith will also work on the project. Other
mLeMan partners are from Ireland, Italy, Austria and Bulgaria.
mLeMan starts October 2010 and runs for 24 Months. mLeMan aims to
develop and mainstream Europe wide skills recognition and
qualification service for m-Learning Managers, and other individuals
at management level, charged with planning, sourcing,
implementing or evaluating m-learning solutions. This project takes
place in the context of (i) the growth of m-learning, which itself
is being facilitated by widespread mobile device development and
availability, and (ii) a paucity of programs at managerial levels in
the field (as a prelude and stimulus to m-learning design and
development activities) which has lead to the need for
qualifications and integrated EC-wide approach to building a
‘Certified m-Learning Manager’ community.
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September
2007.
The CONTSENS
project, using wireless
technologies for context sensitive education and training, approved
by the Leonardo Life Long Learning Program. The 2 year project
involves a European-wide consortium headed by Ericsson Education,
Ireland. John Cook leads the LTRI team (Claire Bradley, Richard
Haynes and Carl Smith).
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July
2007. European Framework 7 project funding for MATURE.
Cook leads for LTRI, we are part of a 13 partner consortium. It
is part of the call ICT-2007.4.1 (Digital Libraries and
Technology-Enhanced Learning). MATURE is a Framework 7
Larger-Scale Integrating Project. MATURE investigates
continuous social learning in knowledge networks. Cook will
contribute his
experience, across the project, in designing and implementing
systems that support learning and will work on the informal
learning research.
Furthermore, Cook, Andrew
Ravenscroft and Claire Bradley will lead the evaluation work package.
LTRI have been awarded circa £380,000 over
4 years, within a total project award of £4.4 million.
The scientific co-ordinator of the project is Universität Karlsruhe in
Germany, a former partner on the completed FP5 project
Learning in Process (LIP).
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January
2006. In collaboration with CETL partners obtain £140,000
additional capital funds from HEFCE. Cook led on the bid.
£50,000 of this funding comes to LTRI for mobile learning
and 3D lab.
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January
2005. In collaboration with colleague Tom Boyle and others,
Cook helped to obtain £3.3 million over five years from
HEFCE. LTRI to lead a Centre
for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) in Reusable
Learning Objects. The CETL represents a
collaboration between London Metropolitan and universities of Cambridge
and Nottingham. Cook was CETL Centre Manager.
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April
2004. JISC
‘Case Studies in eLearning Practice' project. Cook
acts as co-investigator.
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Post-Grad Examination /
Supervision
John's
research interests include the use of Information and
Communications Technology in learning/education across the sectors
(School, FE, HE, Adult), including formal, non-formal, informal and
work-based meaning making/learning. His Education interests overlaps
with (i) Technology Studies in that he believes technology is
socially constructed, and (ii) ubiquitous computing as the
proliferation of mobile devices and wearables changes the way we view learning. Similar key words: Technology Enhanced Learning, e-learning,
mobile learning and Blended Learning.
John is
interested in
projects and the supervision of PhD/EdD students in the following
interdisciplinary research areas
Education (mobile learning, promoting critical
and creative thinking, informal learning, Vygotskian perspectives on
education, user generated contexts, augmented reality, work-based
learning, ICT in education
generally, digital literacy and the digital
divide, qualitative methods like Grounded Theory)
Interdisciplinary (social
inclusion, digital divide, user generated content,
user generated contexts and informal learning)
Computing science (mobile learning, augmented reality, learning technology)
Linguistics
(dialogue analysis and modelling)
Cognitive
science (metacognition and creativity)
External examiner for:
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George
Roberts, University of Southampton
External Examiner, PhD Thesis.
Title: How users engage with a community IT centre?
Viva: 11
October, 2010
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Linda
Creanor, Glasgow Caledonian University
External Examiner, PhD by
Publication.
Viva May 25th 2010.
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Christina
Preston, Institute of Education, University of London
External
Examiner, EdD Thesis.
Title: Third Space Learning
Viva November 18th, 2009
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Caroline
Daly, Institute of Education, University of London
External
Examiner, PhD.
Title: The Impact of Text-Based Computer-Mediated
Communication (CMC) on Teachers’ Professional Learning
(TPL).
Viva April 2008.
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L. J. R.
Worral, University of Salford
External Examiner, PhD.
Title:
Evaluation and Assessment of Metacognition in Lifelong and Distance
Learning.
Viva February 2005.
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James
Davis, University of Wolverhampton
External Examiner, PhD
Title: Technology Supported Learning within Art and
Design.
Viva November 2nd 2007
My
current and past (completed) Post-Grad students are shown below:
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Steven
Curtis, PhD through Prior Output, London Metropolitan
University
Director of Studies (Registration tbc)
Second
supervisor (tbc)
Title:
‘Learning in Public: Student-Practitioner Connections in Political Science
Education’
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Peter
Chalk, EdD, London
Metropolitan University
Director of Studies
Second supervisor Professor
Carole Leathwood
Title: ‘Exploring the relationship between
student identities and academic success in undergraduate computer
science education’
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Carl Smith, LTRI,
PhD, London Metropolitan University
Director of Studies
(November 2009 – date)
Second supervisor Professor Tom Boyle.
Title: An investigation into the influence of learner generated context
on knowledge formation using augmented and mixed reality
applications.
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Peter
Oriogun LTRI, London Metropolitan University
Co-supervisor (2005
– 2006) PhD through publication awarded August
2006.
Co-supervisor Professor Tom Boyle.
Title: Towards
understanding and improving the process of small group collaborative
learning in software engineering education.
Viva, 6th February
2006.
External examiners: Dr Hugh Davis and Dr Margaret
Ross.
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Dejan
Ljubojevic, LTRI, London Metropolitan University
Director of
Studies (October 2001 – 2007), PhD awarded June 2007.
Second
supervisor Professor Tom Boyle.
Title: The Design of
Computer-Based Tools for Tutorial Authoring and Adaptive Learning
Support Based on Learning Object Reuse.
External
examiner Dr Patrick McAndrew, internal examiner Dr Andrew
Ravenscroft.
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Musical
interest
I have conducted
research in the area of pedagogical agents for supporting
musical composition and am still interested in this challenging
area (see my publications). Indeed, music is one of my great
passions. One of my minor claims to fame is that of having being
the electric bass player in a band that was selected by John
Peel, a DJ on Radio 1, as being one of his best sessions of
1982. The guitarist, Jimmy Cauty, easily topped this by going on
to form a band with Bill Drummond called the KLF. The KLF made,
literally, millions of pounds and gained media notoriety, partly
by allegedly burning one million pounds on the Orkney Islands
and by offering an alternative Turner prize for the worst art.
Clearly I turned out to be the serious one. Following this I did
a stint with Strawberry Switchblade, a WEA band. With the best
sessions of '82 band, and later in Jazz bands, I started to
compose music that was performed by those bands. During the late
'80s my Jazz work culminated with my connection, as double bass
player, with a six piece called 'The Butchers of Distinction'
(four out of six band members were vegetarians!). The 'Butchers'
managed to get British Council funding for gigs abroad (Ireland
& Holland). However, my biggest moment came when, at the UNL
staff ball in 2000, I got up on stage and sang 'War' with Edwin
Starr!
Facebook photos
of recent Jazz gigs (need to be logged into FB)
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Contact
details
If you
would like to discuss research matters with John you can contact
him through the following channels:
Professor
John Cook,
Learning Technology Research Institute
London
Metropolitan University, KR-2-07 Shoreditch Building
35 Kingsland
Road, Shoreditch
London E2 8AA
Direct
+44 (0)20 7749 3752
john.cook@londonmet.ac.uk
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