About

First name

Meurig

Last name

Beynon

School / organisation

Computer Science, University of Warwick

Your role

Reader in Computer Science

Your profile

I am the founder member of the Empirical Modelling research group. This has involved developing principles and tools that have wide potential for use in supporting learning in the spirit of constructionism. A key idea is that the understanding that is associated with learning in its broadest sense has to be mediated through direct interpretation of interaction with artefacts of a kind that cannot be reduced to the formal and symbolic interpretation that underpins traditional computer programming. (The EM website can be found at http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/modelling, and the applications to educational technology are gathered together under the link: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/research/em/applications/education.... A web enabled variant of our principal modelling tool, together with some examples of applications to education can be found at http://warwick.ac.uk/go/webeden.)

History

Member for

2 years 30 weeks