Dr Hedberg recently completed several research projects about the use of ICTs in learning. These have included: The use of mobile phones as social software tools in orienteering tasks in geography, using communities of practice as a staff development strategy, using cognitive tools to develop mathematics problem solving repertoire; internet literacy and the production of multi-modal artefacts in History and Science. In 2007, he completed an evaluation for the Learning Federation about the use of interactive whiteboards with their learning objects. Currently he is leading a project for Educational Services Australia evaluating a new website dedicated to supporting the new Australian Curriculum.
He is also working with a team from University of Queensland on an ARC project exploring the role of digital representations in primary science.
With the Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre and his graduate students he is exploring digital representation and early mathematics learning with robots, in particular he is interested in 2D and 3D representations and how younger learners generate mental models of the differences
