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UTS Faculty of Education will be an international partner in a 3 year UK research project titled "Semantic Technologies for the Enhancement of Case Based Learning” funded by the Technology Enhanced Learning strand of the ESRC/Teaching and Learning Research Programme.

The project will be directed by the Centre for Applied Research in Education Technologies at University of Cambridge, with the research team comprising academics working in a number of UK universities including Cambridge, Stirling, East Anglia, City London and Essex. The research sites will be undergraduate courses at Cambridge and post-graduate courses at City University London.

In terms of UTS involvement, Professor Nicky Solomon will be involved in seminars as well as analytical and theorisation activities associated with the project. Importantly, Nicky also is planning to use this experience to develop a parallel Australian research project application.

The research will investigate:
* What are the nature, scope and role of cases and case based learning across disciplines in higher education and their relationship to learning outcomes and expertise?
* How do teachers and learners design, develop and describe and reconstruct cases, and how to these processes contribute to academic and professional outcomes
* What are the pedagogical affordances of semantic web technologies in support of case based learning?
* What new tools can be developed to allow users (learners, teachers, researchers) to access, adapt and manage their case based learning and that of others?
* What are the theoretical framings for researching technology enhanced learning and informing interdisciplinary dialogues when knowledge, technologies and pedagogies are in a state of flux?

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