Researching and Leading for New Directions in Education
Exploring New Approaches in Teacher Education to Enhance Learning and Improve Practice Working with academics in planning curriculum innovation across often unfamiliar knowledge domains, I spend much of my initial time endeavoring to understand different conceptual and methodological organizing frameworks for course development.…
What is an acceptable model of ‘online’ that will improve student outcomes? Proposed here, is a 3-part model of online learning pedagogy, to guide HE practitioners adopting elearning at a systems level.
I love the challenge when told that online or blended learning will not work in a particular subject! Read how I challenge academics to think outside their comfort zone.
Exploring the use of Hargreaves & Shirley’s Fourth Way in Higher Education, within an action research framework to inspire change in university teaching and learning.
When learning is not confined or defined by space or place I delivered an education sociology lecture in 2008, whilst teaching at the University of Tasmania, from the back of the lecture theatre. I sat about 6 rows from the…
We were pleased to present the following paper at the IAACS 6th World Curriculum Studies Conference 2018. Held at The Graduate School of Education, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 9-12 December 2018. You can download a copy of the paper below. Co-creating an Industrial Design Curriculum…
We were pleased to present the following paper at the 6th INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC IDENTITIES CONFERENCE (IAIC) 2018. Held at The Peaceful University: aspirations for academic futures – compassion, generosity, imagination, and creation, Hiroshima University, Japan, 19 September 2018. You can download a copy…
Curriculum Development of the First Women-Only Industrial Design Program in Saudi Arabia The first of our research articles on our curriculum development project has now been published in the International Journal of Design Education. Our team of international researchers and myself as…
Developments in Saudi Arabia It is an exciting time of change in Saudi Arabia. One of the key changes is the launch in 2016 of the Saudi Vision 2030 which is a comprehensive plan to reduce Saudi Arabia’s dependence on…
Are you a design educator? Do you work in Higher Education? I am excited to share with you a recent publication, based on some research conducted with my colleagues from UC in a first-year Design and Architecture Studio. The study incorporated a…