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I have a first degree in Computational Science and a PhD from the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. My research focus is human-centred design of technologies for learning. My main current interest is 'citizen inquiry' - a fusion of citizen science and inquiry-based learning. I lead development of the nQuire platform, in collaboration with the BBC, to support mass participation in social science experiments. As Academic Lead for FutureLearn (www.futurelearn.com), I informed its social learning at massive scale, based on a pedagogy of 'learning as conversation'. I established the Innovating Pedagogyannual report series, to inform teachers and policy makers of new developments in teaching, learning and assessment for a digital world. Other current interests include blockchain for education, and strategies for digital transformation in higher education. My personal website is www.mikesharples.org
Biography
Mike Sharples is Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology in the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK. His research involves human-centred design of new technologies and environments for learning. He inaugurated the mLearn conference series and was Founding President of the International Association for Mobile Learning. He is Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. He established the Innovating Pedagogy report series and is author of over 300 books and papers in the areas of educational technology, science education, human-centred design of personal technologies, artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
Holmes, Wayne; Iniesto, Francisco; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen. (). ETHICS in AIED: Who Cares? An EC-TEL workshop. In: EC-TEL 2019 Fourteenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 16-19 Sep 2019, Delft (Netherlands).
Ferguson, Rebecca; Herodotou, Christothea; Coughlan, Tim; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike (). MOOC development: priority areas. In: Luckin, Rosemary eds. Enhancing Learning and Teaching with Technology: What the Research Says London: UCL IOE Press.
Herodotou, Christothea; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen (). Introducing citizen inquiry. In: Herodotou, Christothea; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen eds. Citizen Inquiry: Synthesising Science and Inquiry Learning Routledge.
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike (). Design processes of a citizen inquiry community. In: Herodotou, Christothea; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen eds. Citizen Inquiry: Synthesising Science and Inquiry Learning Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 210-229.
Manathunga, Kalpani; Hernández-Leo, Davinia and Sharples, Mike (). A Social Learning Space Grid for MOOCs: Exploring a FutureLearn Case. In: Delgado Kloos, Carlos; Jermann, Patrick; Pérez-Sanagustín, Mar; Seaton, Daniel T. and White, Su eds. Digital Education: Out to the World and Back to the Campus Springer, pp. 243-253.
Duval, Erik; Sharples, Mike and Sutherland, Rosamund (). Research Themes in Technology Enhanced Learning. In: Duval, Erik; Sharples, Mike and Sutherland, Rosamund eds. Technology Enhanced Learning: Research Themes Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-10.
Sharples, Mike and Spikol, Daniel (). Mobile learning. In: Duval, Erik; Sharples, Mike and Sutherland, Rosamund eds. Technology Enhanced Learning: Research Themes Springer International Publishing, pp. 89-96.
Sharples, M.; Adams, A.; Alozie, N.; Ferguson, R.; FitzGerald, E.; Gaved, M.; McAndrew, P.; Means, B.; Remold, J.; Rienties, B.; Roschelle, J.; Vogt, K.; Whitelock, D. and Yarnall, L.. (). 创新教学报告2015 —探索教学、学习与评价的新形式 [Innovating Pedagogy 2015]. 开放学习研究 [Open Learning] pp. 1-18.
Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes and Sharples, Mike (). Waypoints along learning journeys in a mobile world. In: Ng, Wan and Cumming, Therese M. eds. Sustaining Mobile Learning: Theory, Research and Practice Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 43-56.
Roschelle, Jeremy; Yarnall, Louise; Sharples, Mike and McAndrew, Patrick (). Future Research Directions for Innovating Pedagogy. In: Verbert, Katrien; Sharples, Mike and Klobučar, Tomaž eds. Adaptive and Adaptable Learning Cham: Springer, pp. 648-651.
Sharples, Mike; Aristeidou, Maria; Villasclaras-Fernández, Eloy; Herodotou, Christothea and Scanlon, Eileen. (). Sense-it: A Smartphone Toolkit for Citizen Inquiry Learning. In: The Mobile Learning Voyage – From Small Ripples to Massive Open Waters, 366-377.
Sharples, Mike (). Seamless learning despite context. In: Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Milrad, Marcelo and Specht, Marcus eds. Seamless Learning in the Age of Mobile Connectivity Singapore: Springer, pp. 41-55.
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike (). Weather-it missions: a social network analysis perspective of an online citizen inquiry community. In: Conole, G.; Klobučar, T.; Rensing, C.; Konert, J. and Lavoué, E. eds. Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World, Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2015, Toledo, Spain, September 15-18 Springer, pp. 3-16.
Ferguson, Rebecca; Sharples, Mike and Beale, Russell (). MOOCs 2030: a future for massive open online learning. In: Bonk, Curtis J.; Lee, Mimi M.; Reeves, Thomas C. and Reynolds, Thomas H. eds. MOOCs and Open Education around the World Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 315-326.
Sharples, Mike; Delgado Kloos, Carlos; Dimitriadis, Yannis; Garlatti, Serge and Specht, Marcus. (). Mobile and Accessible Learning for MOOCs. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 1 (4) pp. 1-8.
Sharples, Mike; Scanlon, Eileen; Ainsworth, Shaaron; Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Collins, Trevor; Crook, Charles; Jones, Ann; Kerawalla, Lucinda; Littleton, Karen; Mulholland, Paul and O'Malley, Claire. (). Personal inquiry: orchestrating science investigations within and beyond the classroom. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 24 (2) pp. 308-341.
Ferguson, Rebecca; Sharples, Mike and Beale, Russell. (). MOOCs 2030:大规模开放学习的未来展望. Journal of Beijing Open University pp. 19-24.
2014
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike. (). Inquiring Rock Hunters. In: Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities, Springer International Publishing, 546-547.
Herodotou, Christothea; Villasclaras Fernandez, Eloy and Sharples, Mike (). The design and evaluation of a sensor-based mobile application for citizen inquiry science investigations. In: Rensing, Christoph; de Freitas, Sara; Ley, Tobias and Muñoz-Merino, Pedro J. eds. Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities: 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2014, Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014, Proceedings SpringerInternational Publishing, pp. 434-439.
Ferguson, Rebecca and Sharples, Mike. (). Innovative pedagogy at massive scale: teaching and learning in MOOCs. In: Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities: 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2014, Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, 98-111.
Sharples, Mike and Pea, Roy (). Mobile learning. In: Sawyer, R. Keith eds. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences (Second edition) New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 501-521.
Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike. (). A design-based study of Citizen Inquiry for geology. In: EC-TEL 2013 Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 17-21 Sep 2013, Paphos (Cyprus).
Sharples, Mike; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Mulholland, Paul and Jones, Robert (). Weaving location and narrative for mobile guides. In: Schrøder, Kim and Drotner, Kirsten eds. Museum Communication and Social Media: The Connected Museum New York: Routledge.
Meek, Sam; Fitzgerald, Elizabeth; Sharples, Mike and Priestnall, Gary (). Learning on field trips with mobile technology. In: Kinuthia, Wanjira and Marshall, Stewart eds. On the Move: Mobile Learning for Development Charlotte, NC.: Information Age Publishing Inc..
Sharples, Mike; Meek, Sam and Priestnall, Gary. (). Zapp: learning about the distant landscape. In: 11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2012), 15-18 Oct 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
Sharples, Mike and Anastopoulou, Stamatina (). Designing orchestration for inquiry learning. In: Littleton, Karen; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike eds. Orchestrating Inquiry Learning Routledge, pp. 69-85.
Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Sharples, Mike; Milrad, Marcelo; Arnedillo-Sánchez, Inmaculada and Vavoula, Giasemi (). The genesis and development of mobile learning in Europe. In: Parsons, David eds. Combining E-Learning and M-Learning: New Applications of Blended Educational Resources Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), pp. 151-177.
Sharples, Mike; Collins, Trevor; Feißt, Markus; Gaved, Mark; Mulholland, Paul; Paxton, Mark and Wright, Michael. (). A “laboratory of knowledge-making” for personal inquiry learning. In: 15th International Conference, AIED 2011, 28 Jun - 01 Jul 2011, Auckland, New Zealand.
Scanlon, Eileen; Littleton, Karen; Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Sharples, Mike and Ainsworth, Shaaron (). Personal Inquiry and groupwork: issues for computer-supported inquiry learning. In: Dimitracopoulou, Angelique; O'Malley, Claire; Suthers, Daniel and Reimann, Peter eds. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Practices - CSCL2009 Community Events Proceedings ISLS.
Priestnall, Gary; Brown, Elizabeth; Sharples, Mike and Polmear, Gemma (). Augmenting the field experience: a student-led comparison of techniques and technologies. In: Brown, Elizabeth eds. Education in the wild: contextual and location-based mobile learning in action. A report from the STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous workshop series. Nottingham, UK: Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham, pp. 43-46.
Niramitranon, Jeff; Sharples, Mike; Greenhalgh, Chris and Lin, Chiu-Pin. (). Orchestrating learning in a one-to-one technology classroom. In: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2010), 12-16 Apr 2010, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Barthel, Ralph; Ainsworth, Sshaaron and Sharples, Mike (). Negotiating perspective in social video environments. In: Drotner, Kirsten and Schrøder, Kim Christian eds. Digital Content Creation: Perceptions, Practices and Perspectives New York, USA: Peter Lang Publishing Group, pp. 211-226.
Niramitranon, Jitti; Sharples, Mike and Greenhalgh, Chris (). Orchestrating learning in a one-to-one technology classroom. In: Khine, Myint Swe and Saleh, Issa M. eds. New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education New York, USA: Springer, pp. 451-468.
Brown, Elizabeth; Sharples, Mike; Wishart, Jocelyn; Tangney, Brendan; Taylor, Jacqui; Beddall-Hill, Nicola L.; Glahn, Christian; Börner, Dirk; Clough, Gill; Wijers, Monica; Jonker, Vincent; Cook, John and Lyons, Leilah (). Reflecting back, looking forward: the challenges for location-based learning. In: Brown, Elizabeth eds. Education in the Wild: Contextual and Location-Based Mobile Learning in Action. A Report from the STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous Workshop Series Nottingham, UK: Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham, pp. 52-53.
Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Sharples, Mike; Milrad, Marcelo; Arnedillo-Sánchez, Inmaculada and Vavoula, Giasemi. (). Innovation in Mobile Learning: A European Perspective. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 1 (1) pp. 13-35.
Barthel, Ralph; Sharples, Mike and Ainsworth, Shaaron. (). Narrative creation from online video as knowledge representation. In: Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling, 6-10 Jul 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Niramitranon, Jitti; Sharples, Mike and Greenhalgh, Chris. (). Orchestrating collaborative Learning in a 1:1 technology classroom. In: Artificual Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling, 6-10 Jul 2009, Brighton, UK.
Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Sharples, Mike; Wright, Michael; Ainsworth, Shaaron; Crook, Charles; Norton, Bronya and O'Malley, Claire. (). Personal Inquiry: lessons learned. In: mLearn 2009 Conference, 26-30 Oct 2009, Orlando, FL, US.
Sharples, Mike; Amedillo Sanchez, Inmaculada; Milrad, Marcelo and Vavoula, Giasemi (). Mobile learning: small devices, big issues. In: Balacheff, N.; Ludvigsen, S.; Jong, T. de and Barnes, S. eds. Technology Enhanced Learning: Principles and Products Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, pp. 233-249.
Sharples, Mike (). Methods for evaluating mobile learning. In: Vavoula, Giasemi; Pachler, Norbert and Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes eds. Researching Mobile Learning: Frameworks, Tools and Research Designs Oxford, UK: Peter Lang Publishing Group, pp. 17-39.
2008
Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Sharples, Mike; Milrad, Marcelo; Arnedillo-Sánchez, Inmaculada and Vavoula, Giasemi. (). Innovazione nel mobile learning. Tecnologie Didattiche, 44 (2) pp. 4-21.
Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Sharples, Mike; Wright, Michael; Martin, Hazel; Ainsworth, Shaaron; Benford, Steve; Crook, Charles; Greenhalgh, Chris and O'Malley, Claire. (). Learning 21st century science in context with mobile technologies. In: Proceedings of the mLearn 2008 Conference, 7-10 Oct 2008, Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, UK.
Vavoula, Glasemi N. and Sharples, Mike. (). Challenges in evaluating mobile learning. In: Proceedings of MLearn 2008: The bridge from text to context, 7-10 Oct 2008, Shropshire, UK.
Rudman, Paul; Sharples, Mike; Lonsdale, Peter; Vavoula, Giasemi and Meek, Julia (). Cross-context learning. In: Tallon, Loic and Walker, Kevin eds. Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media Lanham MD, USA: Alta Mira Press, pp. 147-166.
2007
Sharples, Mike; Taylor, Josie and Vavoula, Giasemi (). A theory of learning for the mobile age. In: Andrews, Richard and Haythornthwaite, Caroline eds. The Sage Handbook of E-learning Research London, UK: Sage, pp. 221-247.
Media appearances
Everything you need to know about MOOCs
An article explaining MOOCs and how they can be developed includes comment from Mike Sharples who says “because your MOOC can be accessed by people from other organisations your training methods could have a worldwide reach.
HR Magazine | 14th July 2016
No room for sloppiness in online classroom
The Conversation | 16th January 2014
Online learning pioneer slams ban on Iranian, Cuban, Sudanese students
Interview in 'Online learning pioneer slams ban on Iranian, Cuban, Sudanese students'