Learnr Research Cambridge is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to innovating and advancing the state of the art in Learning Technologies. Founded by Open Source Champions and leading Researchers and Technologists, Learnr Research builds bridges between pedagogy/educationalists, teachers, students, learners, academia and industry, and builds the building blocks for the digital fabric that empowers new and innovative ways of Learning. Inspired by the Open Source principle, Learnr Research is both a platform and a federadtion, an umbrella for integrating and connecting different learning experiences and approaches via a unifying vision and platforms.
Learnr Research Cambridge has been launched at the end of 2015 by Roland Burger, Armin Ronacher and Daniel Lomrana in order to foster the uptake of advanced Learning/Educational Open Source Technologies. One of the first projects of Learnr Research is weLearners.org and is the result of an intensive 3-days Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation, that took place in Espoo-Finland, during June 2015. It is conceived as a rapid prototype, this is the first phase of it. So stay tuned for further developments, around the topic of Learning for Smart Citizens and a focus on Migrants Learning in Europe.
A more philosophical-technical definition is that of a Quantum Learning Space. As in Quantum Theory the Observer influences the observed. We think the same applies to Learning. Therefore we aim for a new kind of Learning, that happens in a Quantum Learning Space (QLS).
The core idea of Learnr Research is that we are currently witnessing a new Chapter in the Digital Revolution timeline. This will change Learning as we know it, and Learnr Research is building components to harness this development.
"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."
Roland is Founder of Learnr Research and worked in the last year in research on Learning Technologies and its application in European Schools. He worked on the we.learn.it project with Stockholm University Dept. of Computer Science, specializing in next generation Learning systems. He is also a serial entrepreneur in the learning field and has been working on the interesection of Technology and Society and Sustainable Development for the last decade. He worked for the $100 laptop project preparing the World Summit of the Information Society in 2005 and was Project Manager for the pioneering EU Project Paradiso. He is a member of the Club of Rome think thank 30 and the Peccei Foundation in Rome. He is a native Italian, with German mother tongue and speaks also a bit of Japanese.
I just want to code :=).
Armin Ronacher is a passionate developer interested in web development, graphics, realtime rendering and tons of other stuff. He is one of the founding members of thePocoo Team and lead developer on a couple of popular Python projects like Flask,Jinja,Werkzeug,Lektor.
Go Learn. Go Code.
Go Citizen Science!.
Daniel has a PhD on Parallel Genetic Programming on Volunteer Desktop Grids and loves to build open software tools to help people.He is building the open source crowdsourcing citizen science framework PyBossa and Crowdcrafting.
Crowd Science!
I just wante the library to be the new Quantum Learning Space :=).
Jaana is Director of the Public Library of Espoo.
Go Library!
Karen Milner is Professor of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She works on Stress management, Workplace health promotion and Mental health promotion at work.
Régis Frias is a Brazilian born, Finland based, Designer, musician, multimedia artist.
Lord Rees, one of the world's most eminent astronomers, is an emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and the UK's Astronomer Royal. He is one of our key thinkers on the future of humanity in the cosmos.
Martin Rees is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University. After studying at the University of Cambridge, he held post-doctoral positions in the UK and the USA, before becoming a professor at Sussex University. In 1973, he became a fellow of King's College and Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge (continuing in the latter post until 1991) and served for ten years as director of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy. From 1992 to 2003 he was a Royal Society Research Professor, and then from 2004 to 2012, Master of Trinity College. In 2005 he was appointed to the House of Lords, and he was President of the Royal Society for the period 2005-10.
Martin Jackson is one of the UK’s leading technologists. He serves as Plastic Logic Vice President, Technology and head its Cambridge research center. Martin has more than 20 years of executive and technical management experience in leading corporate and technical strategies in the communications, consumer electronics, and semiconductor industries.
Chris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. His research spans emerging technologies for learning, infusing technology into large-scale educational improvement initiatives, developing policies that support educational transformation, and providing leadership in educational innovation. He is currently conducting funded studies to develop and assess learning environments based on virtual worlds, augmented realities, transformed social interaction, and online teacher professional development. Dede is a leader in mobile learning initiatives and has developed a widely used Framework for scaling up educational innovations. From 2001 to 2004, he served as chair of the Learning & Teaching area at HGSE.
Secretary of the Leonardo Advisory Board.
Günther M. Szogs is Secretary of the Advisory Board of the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award and a Founing member of The New Club of Paris. He has a longtime expertise as head of skill- and knowledge management in major banks and is a Speaker of the German Knowledge-experts association. He is a Member of the scientific advisory board for Innovation for the German Federal Government.
“I had the best collaboration ever with Learnr Research and Welearners project. I`m very excited about this whole process and energy that i can feel. And all because of some awesome guys i met at ACSI Camp, we are now here, working on an exciting platform to innovate Learning!
Régis Barreto Matsuda Frias, Digital Strategist, Entrepreneur and Tech Enthusiast
Thanks ACSI Camp Espoo, you were the spark that launched Welearners and Learnr Research. Btw, we have been very much impressed by ACSI Camp 2015. Needless to say we are extremely satisfied with the results. Thank you!”
Roland Burger, Director Learnr Research
The whole idea behind Learnr Research as an innovation platform for Learning & Edicatopm is fantastic. Your work impresses me on multiple levels. I have been very happy about the whole process and you have done a great job.
Riikka Kuusisto, Aalto University SBC Team