Research & innovation

The IDEA Lab has a dedicated team assigned to research and innovation, building an evidence base to evaluate educational technologies and actively experimenting with emerging technologies.

We develop, implement and evaluate pioneering educational technologies and pedagogies. This includes actively experimenting with emerging technologies such as AI, VR and learning analytics to drive innovation.

Driving teaching and Learning Excellence

We apply cutting-edge research to create transformational online learning experiences. Our learning analytics enable us to perform research into online learner behaviour and create quality experiences based on evidence.

Remote learning and teaching experience

With face-to-face teaching suspended due to coronavirus, Imperial is using its EdTech (education technology) expertise to keep delivering its mission.

Innovating methods of delivery

We use our evidence base to drive innovation into new ways of delivering learning.

Report: Data-driven unsupervised clustering of online learner behaviour

The widespread adoption of online courses opens opportunities for analysing learner behaviour and optimising web-based learning adapted to observed usage. Here we introduce a mathematical framework for the analysis of time series of online learner.

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Pioneering digital tools and emerging technologies

Our team is passionate about experimenting with innovative technologies to transform learning experiences. We are at the forefront of pioneering technologies such as AI, VR and hologram technology and continuously evaluate new approaches to teaching and learning.

Report: Holographic teaching presence

This study seeks to identify the potential advantages of using holographic videoconferencing to deliver seminars within higher education as compared to the use of alternative non-holographic videoconferencing.

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