One-to-one technology-enhanced learning: an opportunity for global research collaboration

Tak-Wai Chan (1) , Jeremy Roschelle (2) , Sherry Hsi (3) , Kinshuk Kinshuk (4) , Mike Sharples (5) , Tom Brown (6) , Charles Patton (2) , John Cherniavsky (7) , Roy D. Pea (8) , Cathie Norris (9) , Elliot Soloway (10) , Nicolas Balacheff (11) , Marlene Scardamalia (12) , Pierre Dillenbourg (13) , Chee-Kit Looi (14) , Marcelo Milrad (15) , Ulrich Hoppe (16)

1 Science and Technology for Learning
2 Center for Technology in Learning
3 Center for Learning and Teaching
4 Advanced Learning Technologies
5 Learning Sciences Research Institute
6 Telematic Learning & Education Innovation
7 NSF - National Science Foundation [Arlington]
8 Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning
9 Department of Cognition and Technology
10 EECS - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
11 Leibniz - IMAG - Laboratoire Leibniz
12 Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology
13 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
14 Learning Sciences Lab
15 Center for Learning and Knowledge Technologies
16 Institut für Informatik und interaktive Systeme

Over the next 10 years, we anticipate that personal, portable, wirelessly-networked technologies will become ubiquitous in the lives of learners - indeed, in many countries, this is already a reality. We see that ready-to-hand access creates the potential for a new phase in the evolution of technology-enhanced learning (TEL), characterized by "seamless learning spaces" and marked by continuity of the learning experience across different scenarios (or environments), and emerging from the availability of one device or more per student ("one-to-one"). One-to-one TEL has the potential to "cross the chasm" from early adopters conducting isolated design studies to adoption-based research and widespread implementation, with the help of research and evaluation that gives attention to the digital divide and other potentially negative consequences of pervasive computing. We describe technology-enhanced learning and the affordances of one-to-one computing and outline a research agenda, including the risks and challenges of reaching scale. We reflect upon how this compares with prior patterns of technology innovation and diffusion. We also introduce a community, called "G1:1," that brings together leaders of major research laboratories and one-to-one TEL projects. We share a vision of global research, inviting other research groups to collaborate in ongoing activities.

Keywords: wireless technologies; affordances for learning; technology enhanced learning (TEL); technology enhanced learning (TEL) research agenda; research collaborations; pervasive computing

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Tak-Wai Chan, Jeremy Roschelle, Sherry Hsi, Kinshuk Kinshuk, Mike Sharples, et al.. One-to-one technology-enhanced learning: an opportunity for global research collaboration. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2006, 1(1), pp.3-29. ⟨hal-00190632⟩