Mike Sharples

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

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.

2020

Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Beirne, Elaine; Conole, Gráinne; Costello, Eamon; Coughlan, Tim; Ferguson, Rebecca; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Gaved, Mark; Herodotou, Christothea; Holmes, Wayne; Mac Lochlainn, Conchur; Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Mairéad; Rienties, Bart; Sargent, Julia; Scanlon, Eileen; Sharples, Mike and Whitelock, Denise (2020). Innovating Pedagogy 2020: Open University Innovation Report 8. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

2019

Holmes, Wayne; Iniesto, Francisco; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen. (2019). 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).

Herodotou, Christothea; Sharples, Mike; Gaved, Mark; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Rienties, Bart; Scanlon, Eileen and Whitelock, Denise. (2019). Innovative Pedagogies of the Future: An Evidence-Based Selection. Frontiers in Education.

Cross, Simon; Sharples, Mike; Healing, Graham and Ellis, Jim. (2019). Distance Learners’ Use of Handheld Technologies: Mobile Learning Activity, Changing Study Habits, and the ‘Place’ of Anywhere Learning. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20 (2) pp. 224-241.

Ferguson, Rebecca; Coughlan, Tim; Egelandsdal, Kjetil; Gaved, Mark; Herodotou, Christothea; Hillaire, Garron; Jones, Derek; Jowers, Iestyn; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; McAndrew, Patrick; Misiejuk, Kamila; Ness, Ingun Johanna; Rienties, Bart; Scanlon, Eileen; Sharples, Mike; Wasson, Barbara; Weller, Martin and Whitelock, Denise (2019). Innovating Pedagogy 2019: Open University Innovation Report 7. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

Priestnall, Gary; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Meek, Sam; Sharples, Mike and Polmear, Gemma. (2019). Augmenting the landscape scene: students as participatory evaluators of mobile geospatial technologies. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 43 (2) pp. 131-154.

Sharples, Mike and Ferguson, Rebecca. (2019). Pedagogy-informed design of conversational learning at scale. In: EC-TEL 2019: 14th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 16-19 Sep 2019, Delft, Netherlands.

Sharples, Mike; Aristeidou, Maria; Herodotou, Christothea; McLeod, Kevin and Scanlon, Eileen. (2019). Inquiry learning at scale: pedagogy-informed design of a platform for citizen inquiry. In: L@S 2019: Sixth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 24-25 Jun 2019, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

2018

Herodotou, Christothea; Aristeidou, Maria; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen. (2018). Designing citizen science tools for learning: lessons learnt from the iterative development of nQuire. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning.

Ferguson, Rebecca; Herodotou, Christothea; Coughlan, Tim; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike (2018). MOOC development: priority areas. In: Luckin, Rosemary eds. Enhancing Learning and Teaching with Technology: What the Research Says London: UCL IOE Press.

2017

Herodotou, Christothea; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen (2017). Introducing citizen inquiry. In: Herodotou, Christothea; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen eds. Citizen Inquiry: Synthesising Science and Inquiry Learning Routledge.

Sharples, Mike; Aristeidou, Maria; Villasclaras-Fernández, Eloy; Herodotou, Christothea and Scanlon, Eileen. (2017). The Sense-it App: A Smartphone Toolkit for Citizen Inquiry Learning. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 9 (2) pp. 16-38.

Herodotou, Christothea; Sharples, Mike and Scanlon, Eileen (2017). Citizen Inquiry: Synthesising Science and Inquiry Learning. Abingdon: Routledge.

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike (2017). 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.

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike. (2017). Design Guidelines for Sensor-based Mobile Learning Applications. In: mLearn 2017 Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike. (2017). Profiles of engagement in online communities of citizen science participation. Computers in Human Behavior, 74 pp. 246-256.

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike. (2017). Science learning in online communities of scientific investigations: evidence and suggestions. In: American Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2017, 27 Apr - 01 May 2017, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Ferguson, Rebecca; Barzilai, Sarit; Ben-Zvi, Dani; Chinn, Clark A; Herodotou, Christothea; Hod, Yotam; Kali, Yael; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Kupermintz, Haggai; McAndrew, Patrick; Rienties, Bart; Sagy, Ornit; Scanlon, Eileen; Sharples, Mike; Weller, Martin and Whitelock, Denise (2017). Innovating Pedagogy 2017: Exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers. Open University Innovation Report 6. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Chua, Shi-Min; Tagg, Caroline; Sharples, Mike and Rienties, Bart. (2017). Discussion Analytics: Identifying Conversations and Social Learners in FutureLearn MOOCs. In: FutureLearn data: what we currently have, what we are learning and how it is demonstrating learning in MOOCs, 13-17 Mar 2017, Vancouver.

2016

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.. (2016). 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.

Sharples, Mike; de Roock, Roberto; Ferguson, Rebecca; Gaved, Mark; Herodotou, Christothea; Koh, Elizabeth; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Looi, Chee-Kit; McAndrew, Patrick; Rienties, Bart; Weller, Martin and Wong, Lung Hsiang (2016). Innovating Pedagogy 2016: Open University Innovation Report 5. The Open University.

Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes and Sharples, Mike (2016). 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.

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike. (2016). Engaging citizens in online communities of scientific investigations. In: Citizen Science Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy, First ECSA Conference 2016, 19-21 May 2016, Berlin, Germany.

Roschelle, Jeremy; Yarnall, Louise; Sharples, Mike and McAndrew, Patrick (2016). Future Research Directions for Innovating Pedagogy. In: Verbert, Katrien; Sharples, Mike and Klobučar, Tomaž eds. Adaptive and Adaptable Learning Cham: Springer, pp. 648-651.

Cross, Simon; Sharples, Mike and Healing, Graham. (2016). Learning with mobile devices: the changing place and space of distance learners' study. In: EDULEARN16 Proceedings, 5385-5393.

2015

Sharples, Mike; Adams, Anne; Alozie, N; Ferguson, Rebecca; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Gaved, Mark; McAndrew, Patrick; Means, B; Remold, J; Rienties, Bart; Roschelle, J; Vogt, K; Whitelock, Denise and Yarnall, L (2015). Innovating Pedagogy 2015: Open University Innovation Report 4. The Open University.

Sharples, Mike; Aristeidou, Maria; Villasclaras-Fernández, Eloy; Herodotou, Christothea and Scanlon, Eileen. (2015). 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; Scanlon, Eileen; Ainsworth, Shaaron; Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Collins, Trevor; Crook, Charles; Jones, Ann; Kerawalla, Lucinda; Littleton, Karen; Mulholland, Paul and O'Malley, Claire. (2015). 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. (2015). MOOCs 2030：大规模开放学习的未来展望. Journal of Beijing Open University pp. 19-24.

Ferguson, Rebecca; Sharples, Mike and Beale, Russell (2015). 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.

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike. (2015). Weather-it: evolution of an online community for citizen inquiry. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business, i-Know 2015, ACM.

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike (2015). 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.

Cross, Simon; Sharples, Mike and Healing, Graham (2015). E-Pedagogy of Handheld Devices 2013 Survey: Patterns of student use for learning. The Open University, UK.

de Waard, Inge; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes and Sharples, Mike. (2015). Self-Directed Learning in Trial FutureLearn courses. In: Proceedings Papers, EMOOCS, 234-243.

de Waard, Inge; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes and Sharples, Mike. (2015). Investigating Self-Directed Learning Dimensions: Adapting the Bouchard Framework. In: Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World, Springer, 395-400.

2014

Herodotou, Christothea; Villasclaras Fernandez, Eloy and Sharples, Mike (2014). 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.

Herodotou, Christothea; Villasclaras-Fernandez, Eloy and Sharples, Mike. (2014). Scaffolding citizen inquiry science learning through the nQuire toolkit.. In: EARLI SIG 20: Computer Supported Inquiry Learning, 18-20 Aug 2014, Malmö University, Sweden.

Ferguson, Rebecca and Sharples, Mike. (2014). 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.

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike. (2014). Inquiring Rock Hunters. In: Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities, Springer International Publishing, 546-547.

2013

Sharples, Mike; FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Mulholland, Paul and Jones, Robert (2013). 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 (2013). 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..

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen and Sharples, Mike. (2013). 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).

Barthel, Ralph; Ainsworth, Shaaron and Sharples, Mike. (2013). Collaborative knowledge building with shared video representations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 71 (1) pp. 59-75.

Villasclaras Fernandez, Eloy; Sharples, Mike; Kelley, Simon and Scanlon, Eileen. (2013). nQuire for the OpenScience Lab: supporting communities of inquiry learning. In: Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact, Springer, 585-588.

Villasclaras Fernandez, Eloy; Sharples, Mike; Kelley, Simon and Scanlon, Eileen. (2013). Supporting citizen inquiry: an investigation of Moon rock. In: Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact, Springer, 383-395.

Scanlon, Eileen; Sharples, Mike; Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Fleck, James; Cooban, Caroline; Ferguson, Rebecca; Cross, Simon and Waterhouse, Peter (2013). Beyond prototypes: Enabling innovation in technology-enhanced learning. Open University, Milton Keynes.

2012

Mulholland, Paul; Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Collins, Trevor; Feisst, Markus; Gaved, Mark; Kerawalla, Lucinda; Paxton, Mark; Scanlon, Eileen; Sharples, Mike and Wright, Michael. (2012). nQuire: technological support for personal inquiry learning. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 5 (2) pp. 157-169.

Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Sharples, Mike; Ainsworth, Shaaron; Crook, Charles; O'Malley, Claire and Wright, Michael. (2012). Creating personal meaning through technology-supported science inquiry learning across formal and informal settings. International Journal of Science Education, 34 (2) pp. 251-273.

2011

Sharples, Mike; Collins, Trevor; Feißt, Markus; Gaved, Mark; Mulholland, Paul; Paxton, Mark and Wright, Michael. (2011). A “laboratory of knowledge-making” for personal inquiry learning. In: 15th International Conference, AIED 2011, 28 Jun - 01 Jul 2011, Auckland, New Zealand.

FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Sharples, Mike; Jones, Robert and Priestnall, Gary. (2011). Guidelines for the design of location-based audio for mobile learning. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 3 (4) pp. 70-85.

Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Sharples, Mike and Baber, Chris. (2011). An evaluation of multimodal interactions with technology while learning science concepts. British Journal of Educational Technology, 42 (2) pp. 266-290.

Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Sharples, Mike; Milrad, Marcelo; Arnedillo-Sánchez, Inmaculada and Vavoula, Giasemi (2011). 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.

Mwanza-Simwami, Daisy; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Clough, Gill; Whitelock, Denise; Ferguson, Rebecca and Sharples, Mike. (2011). Methods and models of next generation technology enhanced learning - White Paper. In: Alpine Rendezvous 2011, 28-29 Mar 2011, La Clusaz, France.

2010

Priestnall, Gary; Brown, Elizabeth; Sharples, Mike and Polmear, Gemma (2010). 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.

FitzGerald, Elizabeth; Sharples, Mike; Jones, Robert and Priestnall, Gary. (2010). Guidelines for the design of location-based audio for mobile learning. In: Proceedings of the mLearn 2010 Conference, 19-22 Oct 2010, Valetta, Malta.

Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Yang, Yang; Paxton, Mark; Sharples, Mike; Crook, Charles; Ainsworth, Shaaron and O'Malley, Claire. (2010). Maintaining continuity of inquiry learning experiences across contexts: teacher’s management strategies and the role of technology. In: Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. Proceedings of 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 28 Sep - 1 Oct 2010, Barcelona, Spain.

Barthel, Ralph; Ainsworth, Sshaaron and Sharples, Mike (2010). 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.

Brown, Elizabeth; Börner, Dirk; Sharples, Mike; Glahn, Christian; de Jong, Tim and Specht, Marcus (2010). Location-based and contextual mobile learning. A STELLAR Small-Scale Study. STELLAR European Network of Excellence in TEL (EU).

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 (2010). 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.

2009

Priestnall, Gary; Brown, Elizabeth; Sharples, Mike and Polmear, Gemma. (2009). A student-led comparison of techniques for augmenting the field experience. In: mLearn 2009 Conference, 26-30 Oct 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Sharples, Mike; Wright, Michael; Ainsworth, Shaaron; Crook, Charles; Norton, Bronya and O'Malley, Claire. (2009). Personal Inquiry: lessons learned. In: mLearn 2009 Conference, 26-30 Oct 2009, Orlando, FL, US.

Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Sharples, Mike; Ainsworth, Shaaron and Crook, Charles. (2009). Personal Inquiry: linking the cultures of home and school with technology mediated science inquiry. In: Mobile learning cultures across education, work and leisure. Proceedings of the 3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium, 27 Mar 2009, London, England.

Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Sharples, Mike; Milrad, Marcelo; Arnedillo-Sánchez, Inmaculada and Vavoula, Giasemi. (2009). 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. (2009). 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.

Pearshouse, Ian; Bligh, Brett; Brown, Elizabeth; Lewthwaite, Sarah; Graber, Rebecca; Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth and Sharples, Mike (2009). A study of effective evaluation models and practices for technology supported physical learning spaces (JELS). JISC.

2008

Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Sharples, Mike; Milrad, Marcelo; Arnedillo-Sánchez, Inmaculada and Vavoula, Giasemi. (2008). 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. (2008). Learning 21st century science in context with mobile technologies. In: Proceedings of the mLearn 2008 Conference, 7-10 Oct 2008, Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, UK.

Current

	LEARN CitSci (LEARN CitSci: Learning and Environmental science Agency Research Network for Citizen Science )	2017 - 2021
	nQuire	2017 - 2020

Completed

	Beyond Prototypes ESRC TEL Programme Report	2013
	EduCS (Educating citizens and organisations in Citizen Science methodologies)	2020
	nQuire (nQuire: Young Citizen Inquiry)	2013 - 2014