Professor Kevin Burden

Professor Kevin Burden

Professor of Educational Technology

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Education

Qualifications

  • BA (Lancaster University)
  • MA (University of London)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Hull)

Summary

Kevin is an international expert on the application and impact of digital technologies in learning.

His research and work focuses on the transformational uses of mobile technologies in both formal, but increasingly, informal public spaces that include schools, colleges, universities, museums, heritage sites and the wider environment.

Kevin leads international collaborative projects in mobile learning with partners including the EU, the British Council and UNESCO.

He is a visiting scholar at Hong Kong University and a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Kevin is currently investigating the development and impact of next generation digital eBooks to support learning beyond the classroom.

Recent outputs

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Book

Theorising and Implementing Mobile Learning: Using the iPAC Framework to Inform Research and Teaching Practice

Kearney, M., Burden, K., & Schuck, S. (2020). Theorising and Implementing Mobile Learning: Using the iPAC Framework to Inform Research and Teaching Practice. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8277-6

Book Chapter

Designing personalised, authentic and collaborative learning with mobile devices: Confronting the challenges of remote teaching during a pandemic.

Kearney, M., Burden, K., & Schuck, S. (2020). Designing personalised, authentic and collaborative learning with mobile devices: Confronting the challenges of remote teaching during a pandemic. In R. E. Ferdig, E. Baumgartner, R. Hartshorne, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, & C. Mouza (Eds.), Teaching, Technology, and Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Stories from the Field (661-666). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

Journal Article

360-degree video in education: An overview and a comparative social media data analysis of the last decade

Lampropoulos, G., Barkoukis, V., Burden, K., & Anastasiadis, T. (2021). 360-degree video in education: An overview and a comparative social media data analysis of the last decade. Smart Learning Environments, 8(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-021-00165-8

Adopting the use of a legacy digital artefact in formal educational settings: opportunities and challenges

Gouseti, A., Abbott, D., Burden, K., & Jeffrey, S. (2020). Adopting the use of a legacy digital artefact in formal educational settings: opportunities and challenges. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 29(5), 613-629. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939X.2020.1822435

Education in precarious times: a comparative study across six countries to identify design priorities for mobile learning in a pandemic

Hall, T., Connolly, C., Ó Grádaigh, S., Burden, K., Kearney, M., Schuck, S., …Kosmas, P. (2020). Education in precarious times: a comparative study across six countries to identify design priorities for mobile learning in a pandemic. Information and Learning Sciences, 121(5-6), 423-432. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-04-2020-0089

Research interests

External Examining (PhD)

•Anne Bartlett-Bragg (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), December 2013

•Louisa Panichi: (internal examiner) Participation in language learning in virtual worlds. An exploratory case study of a Business English course (University of Pisa), September 2014

•Thamer Binmahboob, (internal examiner), Integration of Graphic organisers into Writing Workshops: Perceptions of Saudi Second Language learners, Sept 2014.

•Alison McNamara, Touch Screen Interactivity in Mathematics Education at primary School Level (National University of Ireland, Galway, EIRE), December 2015

•Zeynep Polat-Yaseen, Student-generated animations and the teaching and learning of chemistry, (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), March 2016

•Banny Chan Shun Kei, A study on the development of Hong Kong community students’’ digital literacy through storytelling (Hong Kong University,), Nov 2017

•Paul Flynn, Collaboratively Exploring the History of Education for Community of Practice Formation in Undergraduate Initial Teacher Education, ( National University of Ireland, Galway, EIRE, October 2016)

•Erica Lau (internal examiner), An Investigation of Transnational Higher Education in Hong Kong: Developing Transcultural Communities of Practice (May, 2017)

•Emma Asprey, Critical reflection by trainee teachers in collaborative online weekly logs, Bath Spa (May 2019)

* Michael Parr, An exploration of the influence of mobile technologies on undergraduate physiotherapy student learning. Northumbria University (2020)

* Sally McHugh, Learningful Play: Exploring the design of technology, learning and play to enhance children’s engagement with cultural heritage in schools and museums, NUI Galway Ireland (2020)

* Karl Royle, A retrospective review of educational interventions and innovations using actor network theory. Creating learning designs that develop human capabilities by purposeful assembly of heterogenous actors, University of Wolverhampton (2021)

•Samuel Ikechukwu Eneje. Educating Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing Mobile Application Use in a Higher Learning Engineering Programme, Lancaster University (Nov. 2021)

PhD Completions and supervisions:

•Al-Ain Haji Jamain (funded by Brunei government) ‘Interactive Whiteboard in Primary schools in Brunei Darussalam’ (Sept 2014)

•Mohammed Alghamdi: ‘An investigation of using Web 2.0 technologies in educational supervision’.( funded by Saudi Arabia government) (Sept 2016)

•Louise Shorthouse (University of Hull Scholarship (May 2017)

•Howard Scott (University Scholarship) ‘Social Media fatigue v enhanced engagement. (May 2018)

•Margaret Korosec (funded by Hymers College, Hull) ‘Analytics and Student Retention’ ( Dec 2018)

•Christine O’Dea ( Nov 2019)

•Ella Alhouit, University of Hull (July 2021)

•Jacqui Bartram, University of Hull (Oct 2021)

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Supporting Educator's Pedagogical Application of 360 video (SEPA360)

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£95,358.00

Started

1 September 2019

Status

Ongoing

Project

Young Citizens for Change: developing environmental activism in young people through creative citizen inquiry

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£47,392.00

Started

1 May 2021

Status

Ongoing

Project

Learning without borders (Thailand)

Funder

British Council

Grant

£45,200.00

Started

1 March 2017

Status

Complete

Project

Tomorrows Books Today: (Vietnam)

Funder

British Council

Grant

£79,941.00

Started

1 April 2017

Status

Complete

Project

developing innovation and research capacity in the circular economy through citizen inquiry methodologies

Funder

British Council

Grant

£35,654.00

Started

1 December 2020

Status

Complete

Project

Girls Into Global STEM

Funder

British Council

Grant

£100,165.00

Started

1 January 2017

Status

Complete

Project

Designing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies

Funder

British Council

Grant

£116,950.00

Started

1 September 2017

Status

Complete

Project

ECPE PPF: Engaging young people in the circular plastics economy

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£48,200.00

Started

1 October 2019

Status

Complete

Project

Teacher Mobile Application supporting Innovative Learning

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£51,790.00

Started

1 November 2015

Status

Complete

Project

Mobile Learning Toolkit for Teacher/Educators/Academics

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£95,174.00

Started

1 September 2014

Status

Complete

Project

Citizen Inquiry: Barriers, Challenges and Enablers for public engagement

Funder

BBSRC Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Counc

Grant

£20,138.00

Started

1 February 2020

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

The University of Hull Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre on Water Cultures

Funder

The Leverhulme Trust

Grant

£1,350,000.00

Started

1 June 2021

Status

Ongoing

Project

Evolving a Circular Plastics Economy

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£938,304.00

Started

1 January 2019

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

I am available to supervise doctoral students in the following areaS:

*Mobile learning

*Technology Enhanced Learning

*Educational technology

Awards and prizes

Distinguished Visiting Professor

2018 - 2018

Distinguished Visiting Fellow (Hong Kong University)

2015 - 2015

National Teaching Fellow

2015

University Teaching Fellow

2012

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