Ultralab was the name adopted in 1993 by a unit led by Professor Stephen Heppell after a short period as 'Learning Technology Research Centre', 'Xploratorium' and prior to that as 'New Learning Environments'. Ultralab developed a reputation over the next thirteen years for innovation and delight in learning with technology. It created some of the first multimedia CD-ROM materials in 1992, predicted the Web 2.0 era with online communities and participative web-sites in 1996, embarked on large-scale action research developments to create Notschool.net (1998 - 2005), Talking Heads (1999 - 2003) and Ultraversity (2003 - present) amongst its many achievements. Over this period it grew to employ over fifty personnel. In May 2003 Ultralab helped create Ultralab South in New Zealand which is now named Core Education NZ.
More details of Ultralab can be found at its 2005-2006 web site and particularly on the projects page.
Ultralab closed in December 2006.