John Cook

John Cook is Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning at the Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University. He has a cross-university role of E-Learning Project Leader. John has over 14 years previous experience as a fulltime lecturer at various HEIs and in 2007 was made a University Teaching Fellow. He has over 8 years project management experience, which includes AHRB, BECTA, HEFCE-CETL and EC work. Furthermore, John has been part of research and development grant proposals that have attracted £4 million in competitive external funding. In addition, he has published/presented over 200 refereed articles and invited talks in the area of Technology Enhanced Learning, having a specific interest in four related areas: informal learning, mobile learning, appropriation and ICT Leadership & Innovation. He was Chair/President of the Association for Learning Technology (2004-06), he is the Vice-Chair of ALT’s Research Committee and conductsAssessor and review work for the ESRC, EPSRC, EU, DfES and the Science Foundation of Ireland.

Publications

Designing for Active Learning: Putting Learning into Context with Mobile Devices
Designing for Active Learning: Putting Learning into Context with Mobile Devices
Carl Smith, Claire Bradley, John Cook, Simon Pratt-Adams. © 2012. 23 pages.
This chapter will focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a recent location based, context aware system for urban education students, trainee teachers, and...
Appropriation of Mobile Cultural Resources for Learning
Appropriation of Mobile Cultural Resources for Learning
Norbert Pachler, John Cook, Ben Bachmair. © 2012. 21 pages.
This article proposes appropriation as the key for the recognition of mobile devices—as well as the artefacts accessed through, and produced with them—as cultural resources...
Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools within Augmented Contexts for Development
Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools within Augmented Contexts for Development
John Cook. © 2012. 13 pages.
This paper argues for the need to re-examine approaches to the design of, and research into, learning experiences that incorporate mobile phones in the learning context....
Foreword
Foreword
John Cook. © 2010. 3 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Architectures for Distributed and Complex M-Learning Systems: Applying Intelligent Technologies.
Appropriation of Mobile Cultural Resources for Learning
Appropriation of Mobile Cultural Resources for Learning
Norbert Pachler, John Cook, Ben Bachmair. © 2010. 21 pages.
This article proposes appropriation as the key for the recognition of mobile devices — as well as the artefacts accessed through, and produced with them — as cultural resources...