Collaboration

The ENGRAMMETRON has been conceived and designed first and foremost to pursue research in mathematics education, with special emphasis on encouraging and promoting collaborative research in this area, and in educational neuroscience more generally. Naturally, the aim of our research is to anticipate and pursue matters that can have positive and significant impacts on educational practice, the sooner the better. Nevertheless, in initiating a new area of educational research, it is important also to note that pursuing avenues of pure research typically lead to practical benefits that often would have been inconceivable otherwise. Indeed, a recent study suggests that pure, or so-called "blue-sky", research leads to greater practical benefits than applied research.

Collaborations are encouraged especially in the following areas:

• Problem solving
  
• Cognition and emotion
• Representational modalities
• Instructional design
• Learning
  

Collaborations should typically involve laboratory participation in at least three of the following five areas:

• Idea generation
• Experimental design
• Data acquisition and analysis
• Interpretation and write-up
• Support and funding
  

For those interested in discussing potential collaborations, please contact Stephen (Sen) Campbell.