The Centre is currently engaged in collating a wide range of ideas about the use of story in learning. The focus here is on how a learning journey can be captured and narrated by new media technologies.
The Centre’s Associate Professor, Jenny Moon, is researching the use of story in higher education, with a focus on the use of oral story telling as a means of supporting the presentation skills of new teachers. Jenny already has had an article accepted in a nursing journal on this topic (with John Fowlder) and she runs workshops on the use of story and oral storytelling. A book summarising this research will be published by Routledge in early 2011.
Neelam Palmar is currently engaged in doctoral research which attempts to locate narratives in learning. Her work focuses on the potential for new media to combine with more traditional notions of narrative as a means for enhancing learning.
Jim Pope has worked with school children in creating a tool which will allows learners to create their own interactive narratives, without the need for competency in complicated computer languages. Genarrator can be found at:http://genarrator.cemp.ac.uk
