Teacher Online Educational Resource Search in Education System Context

Apr 1, 2025·
Vidminas Vizgirda
Vidminas Vizgirda
,
Fiona McNeill
,
Judy Robertson
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Abstract
School teachers around the world use online resources in their teaching. The education systems in which teachers work directly impact their freedom to choose, adapt, and use resources in their classes. This, in turn, influences teachers’ information interactions involved in lesson planning and resource preparation, but few studies have investigated this relationship. Based on a semi-structured interview and observation study with 15 school teachers working with the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, a process model is proposed to describe teacher tasks and strategies for finding, using, and sharing educational resources. This study addresses the influence of the education system context and considers implications for design of search systems that support online educational resource search by school teachers. A supplementary open licensed dataset can be found at https://osf.io/a2xs8/.
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Proceedings of the 2025 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!