{"id":5506,"date":"2017-06-21T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2017-06-21T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T18:02:00","slug":"introducing-heidi-singleton-our-new-phd-student-on-immersive-worlds-augmented-reality-and-tools-for-learning-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/06\/21\/introducing-heidi-singleton-our-new-phd-student-on-immersive-worlds-augmented-reality-and-tools-for-learning-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Heidi Singleton, our new PhD student on Immersive Worlds, Augmented reality and Tools for Learning Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEL team have awarded one of the \u00a0prestigious\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/study\/postgraduate-research\/fees-funding\/studentships-scholarships\/vice-chancellors-phd-scholarships\">Vice-Chancellor\u2019s PhD scholarships at Bournemouth University<\/a>, with the project \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/asset\/document\/Project%20Description%20-%20CEL%20-%20Holley.pdf\">Immersive worlds, AR &amp; tools for learning innovation: an empirical investigation in the UK HE context<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk\/display\/dholley\">Debbie Holley<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk\/display\/jpriego\">Jacqueline Priego<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk\/display\/efalconer\">Liz Falconer<\/a>\u00a0comprise the supervisory team at CEL.<\/p>\n<p>This new project seeks to elucidate the connections between immersive worlds, augmented reality and tools for learning innovation. Using a constructivist perspective, it aims first, to systematically appraise the literature on these three major themes; second, to operationalise learning innovation by developing a teaching and learning framework using augmented reality and other low-cost tools for scalable immersive experiences (e.g. Google cardboard); third, to evaluate the learning potential of this tool-mediated exercise.<\/p>\n<p>After a competitive selection process, Heidi Singleton has been offered the scholarship, and will be joining us at CEL from September 2017, to work on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Heidi has over 14 years of teaching and lecturing experience. \u00a0Her MA explored ways to promote student engagement via ipad apps. \u00a0She has also conducted nursing research including: growing and investigating microorganisms retrieved from clean neonatal incubators; and demonstrating equivalence between nurse\u2019s and doctor\u2019s pre-operative assessment skills. She tweets <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blueprintteach?lang=en-gb\">@blueprintteach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heidi says: \u201cI am honoured to have been selected for this scholarship, working with a highly talented blend of supervisors. \u00a0Project aims include harnessing the technology to engage students, but more importantly, to demonstrate a measurable improvement in their outcomes. \u00a0In addition to working within the CEL, I am thrilled to be collaborating with both the Faculties of Media &amp; Communications and Nursing. \u00a0In the future, I hope to build upon this opportunity with a continued contribution to research and teaching at BU&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEL team have awarded one of the \u00a0prestigious\u00a0Vice-Chancellor\u2019s PhD scholarships at Bournemouth University, with the project \u201cImmersive worlds, AR &amp; tools for learning innovation: an empirical investigation in the UK HE context\u201d.\u00a0Debbie Holley,\u00a0Jacqueline Priego\u00a0and\u00a0Liz Falconer\u00a0comprise the supervisory team at CEL. This new project seeks to elucidate the connections between immersive worlds, augmented reality and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/06\/21\/introducing-heidi-singleton-our-new-phd-student-on-immersive-worlds-augmented-reality-and-tools-for-learning-innovation\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Introducing Heidi Singleton, our new PhD student on Immersive Worlds, Augmented reality and Tools for Learning Innovation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,132,5,231],"tags":[15,272],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cel-staff","category-co-creation","category-news","category-uofa25","tag-augmented-reality","tag-innovation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5509,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/5509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}