Educational Resource Search in Scottish Schools

Mar 10, 2024·
Vidminas Vizgirda
Vidminas Vizgirda
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Abstract
This project investigates the needs and challenges of school teachers in Scotland involved in finding, using, and sharing educational resources online. The first exploratory stage comprises interviews with primary and secondary school teachers, teacher trainees, and other school staff to define the processes involved and how these processes are situated in teachers’ work context. The second stage is a review of existing tools that facilitate these tasks. The third and final stage consists of user centred iterative design and prototype evaluation studies, experimenting with potential improvements to online resource discoverability.
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Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
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Vidminas Vizgirda
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Vidminas Vizgirda
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Hi 👋😊! I’m Vidminas (most people call me Vid), a postdoc on the CHAILD project splitting time between the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and the Institute of Education, University College London.

I am interested in technology and education, and more specifically researching and developing technologies that empower people. The current CHAILD project focus is about defining and designing for agency in children and young people’s use of AI tools.

Before this, I did my PhD at the Institute of Language Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh. My then-supervisors are Professor Fiona McNeill and Professor Judy Robertson. The project was about better understanding and designing tools to help teachers search for educational resources.

I am always keen to chat about teaching and learning, human-computer interaction, participatory research, and designing applications for good, feel free to get in touch!