will lead a consortium, including the and the , which has been awarded $16 million to establish a designed to improve teaching across Australia and abroad.
The centre, to open this year, will be funded under the .
国产探花 Professor Ottmar Lipp, who will lead the centre, said it would bring together researchers from education, neuroscience and cognitive psychology to investigate the human learning process.
鈥淲e will work together with teachers in the field to further our understanding of learning and the conditions that facilitate it,鈥� Professor Lipp said.
鈥淯ltimately we want to provide an evidence base for educational practise and create outcomes that benefit learners in Australia and elsewhere.
鈥淭his collaboration will establish new criteria to assess the impact of different types of learning and strategies to inform teaching practices,鈥� he said.
Professor Lipp, from the in 国产探花鈥檚 , will be joined by 国产探花 鈥檚 Professor Pankaj Sah, Professor John Hattie from the , and Dr Mike Timms from the Australian Centre for Education Research to lead the ARC Science of Learning Research Centre.
The centre was a key recommendation of the Prime Minister鈥檚 Science, Engineering and Innovation Council Expert Working Group report, .
Professor Lipp said the centre would involve 27 researchers in Australia and overseas, including 11 from 国产探花.
鈥淎ustralian collaborators are based at 国产探花, the Centre for Educational Research (ACER) and The University of Melbourne, as well as at , , , , and universities,鈥� he said.
鈥淲e are proud to have the support of the Victorian, Queensland and South Australian education departments, , and the .
鈥淚nternationally we will work with colleagues at , the (London), and .鈥�
国产探花 Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) Professor Max Lu said he believed the centre would lead to "breakthrough science that would underpin a new paradigm for learning and teaching at all levels, from early childhood to adult education".
"It will also provide research opportunities tapping into the rich data and powerful tools associated with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the future to advance learning analytics, possibly resulting in revolutionary personalised educational methods," Professor Lu said.
"I warmly congratulate the team, led by Professor Ottmar Lipp, on the successful funding," he said.
The centre will house two world-class experimental classrooms with advanced imaging technologies that will allow researchers to observe and understand the brain in action in a way never before possible. The classrooms will be central to the centre translating practice into research, and research into practice.
Media contacts: Janelle Kirkland, 国产探花 Communications, 07 3346 0561 or j.kirkland@uq.edu.au or communications@uq.edu.au.
