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Professor Margaret Cox OBE

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Emeritus Professor of Information Technology in Education

Professor Margaret Cox Contact information:

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 3126
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 3182
Email: mj.cox@kcl.ac.uk

Research interests

  • The impact of new technologies on education
  • The use of information technology in education and its effect on teacher education and children's learning
  • The development and evaluation of computer-assisted learning materials
  • Computer-based modelling in education
  • The impact of information technology on pupils' motivation
  • Teachers' attitudes to the use of ICT in teaching and learning
  • The use of ICT in dental education

Teaching

  • Initial Teacher Training (PGCE):
  • Masters course modules:
    • Teaching and learning
    • ICT in educational settings
  • PhD programmes:
    • The effects of ICT on children's learning of science
    • Teachers' attitudes to ICT
    • The effects of computer-based training on changes in working practice
    • Pupils' self-assessment of their ICT skills
    • The influence of the advisory ICT teacher on classroom practice
    • The effects of word processors on students' revision in EFL

Selected consultancies

  • United States Congress
  • Netherlands' Ministry of Education
  • British Educational Communications & Technology Agency
  • Qualifications & Curriculum Authority

Roles as external examiner

  • Masters courses:
    • The University of Reading (1999- present)
  • MPhil/PhD:
    • University of Oxford
    • University of Nottingham
    • University of Birmingham
    • University of Leicester
    • University of East Anglia
    • University of Twente (Netherlands)
    • University of Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)

Memberships of professional bodies

  • The Insitute of Physics
  • The British Educational Research Association
  • The British Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on New Technologies in Education (founder member)
  • The American Educational Research Association
  • The Association for Science Education
  • The Group International for Research in Education in Physics
  • The National Association for ICT in Education (Honorary President)
  • The Association for Microcomputers and Primary Education
  • The Association for IT in Teacher Education
  • The British Computer Society's Schools Executive committee (research watching brief)
  • Computer Education Group
  • Standing Conference on Research in Education (1993 - present)
  • The New York Academy of Sciences
  • The American Association of Science

Publications

You can see a selected list of my publications here.

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