OER Professional Development Webinar on Making Research Accessible and Meaningful to Practitioners

On 29 August 2020, the Professional Development (PD) Committee at the Office of Education Research (OER) organised an online PD session on “Making Research Accessible and Meaningful to Practitioners”. This PD session took the form of a panel discussion, which began with a short 15-minute presentation from each panellist, exploring a framework on developing partnerships amongst different stakeholders in education (e.g. teachers, educators, researchers, policymakers) and disseminating research findings amongst these stakeholders, and concluded with an engaging question and answer segment.

The session was moderated by Dr Phillip Towndrow, OER Senior Research Scientist, and Teachers’ Professionalism and Learning Programme Director. The panellists were:

- Assoc Prof Mark Baildon, OER Assoc Dean (Partnerships and Analytics), and Assoc Prof in the Humanities and Social Studies Education Academic Group (AG), who introduced “A Knowledge Framework to Strengthen the Research-Practice Nexus”;

- Prof Christine C. M. Goh, NIE Director and Prof in the English Language and Literature (ELL) AG, who discussed putting “Research into Practice: What do Practitioners Want?”;

- Dr Willy Renandya, Principal Lecturer in the ELL AG, who presented on “Making Research More Accessible”; and

- Asst Prof Azilawati Jamaludin, OER Assistant Dean (Science of Learning), and Asst Prof in the Learning Sciences and Assessment AG, who spoke on “Bridging Research and Practice: Perspectives from a Science of Learning Lens”.

 

 

The session was attended by over 200 education researchers, practitioners, and scholars from all over the world.

You may access the recording of the session here: