Centre for Research on Education in a Digital Society

Technology permeates both what  we learn, and how we learn.

Let me give you an example. In healthcare,  colleagues at UTS have been investigating  

how we can use sensor technologies and data  analytics to support trainee nurse's teamwork  

by providing real-time feedback on where they  are and who they're working with. In parallel,  

in the TRACK project we are using job analytics  to understand the shifting skills changes  

and showing in that healthcare contexts  we are seeing increasing uses of many  

of the same technologies to understand  how to support patients, for example,  

an emerging area of 'health informatics'  which combines data and nursing skills.

Similarly, across learning contexts from schools  and universities, to museums and online learning  

communities, technology has implications for  how we learn. For example, UTS researchers have  

investigated how teachers learn from each other  using informal communities like those on Facebook.  

And again, centre researchers have  investigated key issues such as  

what teachers need to learn to use mobile  devices effectively in their practice.

We want to understand how we can learn with  technology effectively, how it is changing  

learning needs across contexts, and the pros  and cons - innovations and ethical quandaries,  

new methods and challenges - that are involved  in that. And we want to work with people who care  

about learning to do that. Find out more about  staying in touch, and who we are on our website.