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Insights into science from international colleagues and opportunities for exchange—that's the goal of the CATALPA Lecture Series. Peter Reimann will kick off the new series. He is a professor at the Sydney School of Education and Social Work and co-director of the Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation (CRLI).

Topic and Abstract

Towards an infrastructure for knowledge mobilisation: Modelling educational design principles as knowledge graphs.

This presentation addresses the limitations of disseminating research knowledge as unstructured text and explores alternative approaches from library and information sciences, particularly semantic publishing and Open Research Knowledge Graphs. It examines how design principles—intended for use by educators, learning designers, and educational technology developers—can be digitally structured for improved accessibility and usability. The talk further considers methods for modelling and storing evaluative research on these design principles in machine-readable formats. In the final section, I will outline how these conceptual models can be formalised through ontologies and implemented as Knowledge Graphs, enabling their storage and retrieval via databases. Illustrative examples will be drawn from existing literature and preliminary work on a design principles database for nanoscience education.

University members are warmly invited to attend.

September 24, 2025, 4 p.m.

PRG, Room B 103

Please register by August 24, 2025 at catalpa.