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- Dr Gregor Kennedy is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Biomedical Multimedia Unit in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is a national expert on the design, development, implementation and evaluation of educational technology in higher education. He has been involved in the project management, educational design and evaluation of over 40 technology-based learning and teaching projects for University staff and commercial clients. Many of these collaborative development projects have been published and commercialised by the University. He has developed a comprehensive and practical program of educational technology evaluation which has been used with over 30 educational technology development projects. He has been awarded eight learning and teaching grants which have facilitated the development and application of educational technologies to enhance students’ learning processes and outcomes. He has a PhD in Psychology and has published widely in the area of educational design, evaluation of educational technology, and students’ use of technology in educational settings.
Dr Gregor Kennedy
- Professor Kerri-Lee Krause is Chair in Higher Education and Director of the Griffith Institute for Higher Education. Kerri-Lee is a national expert on the first year undergraduate experience and was the project director for the recent National Study of Trends in the First Year Experience (Krause et al., 2005). She has directed several other successful national research projects, including the Carrick Biological Assessment Project. She has wide experience in managing collaborative project teams across institutions and facilitating international collaborations, with priority given to developing national dissemination strategies to support quality learning and teaching across the sector. Her research interests focus on student transition to higher education. Her disciplinary background of educational psychology brings to the project expertise in understanding conditions for effective learning and teaching in the undergraduate years. She also has detailed working knowledge of online learning environments and their possibilities for enhancing pedagogy and assessment in the undergraduate curriculum.
Professor Kerri-Lee Krause
- Dr Kathleen Grayhas a PhD in Science Education and has an applied research focus on web-based learning and teaching. She is a member of the Research Group in the Biomedical Multimedia Unit at The University of Melbourne. She previously held roles at RMIT University with significant responsibility for academic staff development and for educational technology policy and strategy. She was part of a team that conducted a major survey of student and staff users of learning management systems in Australian Technology Network Universities in 2004. She directed a scheme from 2002 to 2005 in which approximately 100 science, engineering and technology academics completed over 30 action research projects including educational technology innovation projects.
Dr Kathleen Gray
- Dr Terry Judd has been designing and developing educational software to support learning and teaching within the tertiary sector since 1995. Terry joined the Biomedical Multimedia Unit at the University of Melbourne in 1999 and is the unit’s leading software designer and a key member of its research team. His expertise lies in understanding the behavioural (student) and technical considerations associated with the development and implementation of technology in learning and teaching environments. He has been awarded a number of learning and teaching grants to develop software tools to support student learning. His research has focused on understanding of how and why students use educational technology. He has developed a range of innovative techniques for electronically collecting and analysing behavioural data to support this work and has published a series of papers in the area.
Dr Terry Judd
- Dr Sue Bennett is an academic in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong, and coordinator of the Cognition and Learning Design Laboratory. Sue has over 14 years experience as a university teacher across a broad range of disciplines including education, information technology, physics, and engineering. She has also worked as an instructional designer and manager for educational technology projects in school, university and industry settings. Sue has a strong research track record in the areas of ICT integration in schools and higher education, and the effective design of learning resources.
Dr Sue Bennett
- Dr Barney Dalgarno is an Associate Professor in Education and a research fellow in the Centre for Research in Complex Systems (CRiCS) at Charles Sturt University. He has been researching in the field of educational technology for the past 14 years, and has over 50 publications in the area. His innovations in the use of technologies for teaching have been recognised nationally through an ASCILITE Award for Exemplary use of ICT in Tertiary Education and through a Carrick citation. Stemming from his background in Computer Science and his PhD in Education he has developed a reputation for having a deep knowledge of both educational theory and computer technologies, along with associated research methods. He has led a number of cross-disciplinary evaluations of technology in teaching, including paperless marking and tools to support the laboratory experience of chemistry students as well as the implementation of blogs in teacher education practicum carried out as part of this project.
Dr Barney Dalgarno
- Dr Karl Maton is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Sydney. He has been researching curriculum, pedagogy and higher education for the past 12 years and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2005. Karl has an established international reputation in the sociology of education for his original theoretical framework for analysing institutions, disciplines, and learning and teaching practices (www.karlmaton.com). This approach is being used by scholars of sociology, education, psychology and linguistics in France, South Africa, the UK and Singapore to investigate a wide variety of educational issues. He is currently co-leading two ARC Discovery Project grants on: educational technology and higher education; and knowledge-building in the school curriculum.
Dr Karl Maton
- Dr Andrea Bishop is the Associate Dean of Science at Charles Sturt University. Andrea has a strong track record in analytical chemistry research, which she has more recently extended to include research in science education. She has a commitment to enhancing student learning and teaching experiences which is demonstrated through involvement in collaborative projects examining: the value of laboratory work in undergraduate programs; tools for residential school preparation; group problem solving as a learning tool in Chemistry; the impact of performance-based funding models on improving teaching; and modeling communities of practice in team teaching. Her dedication to these programs has been recognised through Faculty and University Teaching Excellence Awards (Team) and a Carrick Citation. She is regularly invited to speak at local learning and teaching symposia and since 2002 she has published a range of peer reviewed papers related to the scholarship of learning and teaching.Dr Andrea Bishop is the Associate Dean of Science at Charles Sturt University. Andrea has a strong track record in analytical chemistry research, which she has more recently extended to include research in science education. She has a commitment to enhancing student learning and teaching experiences which is demonstrated through involvement in collaborative projects examining: the value of laboratory work in undergraduate programs; tools for residential school preparation; group problem solving as a learning tool in Chemistry; the impact of performance-based funding models on improving teaching; and modeling communities of practice in team teaching. Her dedication to these programs has been recognised through Faculty and University Teaching Excellence Awards (Team) and a Carrick Citation. She is regularly invited to speak at local learning and teaching symposia and since 2002 she has published a range of peer reviewed papers related to the scholarship of learning and teaching.
Dr Andrea Bishop
- Rosemary Chang is a lecturer in education development with the Engineering Learning Unit in the Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne. For two years at the Biomedical Multimedia Unit, her role in the Educating the Net Generation project included being project manager and contributing researcher. She has extensive experience in the tertiary sector having worked in higher education since 1991 as a lecturer, researcher, administrator and education consultant. Her interest is in the student experience and improving student learning in complex and changing environments. Previously, her responsibilities included team leader to a team of academic developers in the discipline areas of science, engineering and technology. At RMIT University, with two colleagues she received a university award for "Innovative and practical approach to the enhancement of the quality of teaching and learning".
Rosemary Chang
- Dr Jenny Waycott is a researcher in the Biomedical Multimedia Unit at the University of Melbourne. She has been involved in research in the fields of human-computer interaction and educational technology for the past decade. Jenny completed her PhD in 2004 at the Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology in the UK. In past research she has examined user perspectives on technology use in various learning, workplace and social contexts, and in her PhD work she developed an activity theory approach to understanding how people appropriate new technologies as learning and workplace tools. Jenny has previously worked in the University of Melbourne's psychology department and at RMIT as a research fellow in the user-centred design group of the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre.