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| From left to right: Jenny Waycott, Celia Thompson, Margaret Hamilton, Joan Richardson, Kathleen Gray, Rosemary Clerehan, and Judithe Sheard |
Kathleen Gray (Project leader) Senior Research Fellow, Health Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne. PhD (2001), M Environmental Sc (1986), M Library Sc (1977), BA Linguistics (1975). Member of an ALTC / Carrick competitive grants program project team investigating the implications of the Net Generation for Australian higher education, 2006-2009, including acting as designer and leader of the national dissemination workshop series. Founding member and convenor of a funded health information technology research network with over 100 members and an active knowledge transfer program, and secretary of its interdisciplinary steering committee, 2006ff. Leader of Melbourne-Monash Acknowledgement project to support university staff to undertake continuing professional development about academic honesty and integrity issues, including considerations of new media, 2005-06. Significant responsibility for managing academic development, including funded action research by teaching staff, and for educational technology policy and strategy at RMIT, 2000-05, in Associate Dean (Academic) and Director of Educational Quality roles in Science, Engineering and Technology and as founder and chair of the university’s Teaching and Learning Committee Educational Technology Sub-committee. RMIT Institutional Award for “innovative and practical approaches to the enhancement of the quality of teaching and learning” (2004).Over 15 years teaching experience, including web-based from 1995. Over 60 publications, presentations and workshops on academic development and educational technology topics, including several papers on web 2.0 topics in the past two years. Member of ASCILITE, HERDSA, ALIA, ISSOTL.
Rosemary Clerehan, Associate Professor and Director, International Postgraduate Academic Support, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University. PhD (2006) "Disciplined Words: Designs for Supporting and Improving Student Writing in the Academy", MA (1993),Dip Ed (1986), BA (Hons) (1971). An internationally known specialist in academic literacy, as head of Monash University Language and Learning, 1987-2005, implemented the expansion of student language and learning support to all Australian campuses and South Africa. Published in leading international journals in higher education, educational media and online learning in the areas of: learning on the web; disciplinary understandings and genre studies; plagiarism; cross-cultural issues in teaching and learning; and written doctor-patient communication. Has attracted external funding for medical communication projects and has had NHMRC and other consultancies, some involving CD-ROM development. Leader of series of Monash-funded University-wide projects (1998-2006), involving teams of students and staff, to develop academic skills web sites for students and professional development sites for staff.
Margaret Hamilton, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University. PhD, BSc (Hons). Senior co-chair of ACE2009, Australasian Computing Education Conference, co-chair ACE2008, and convenor of the Third Melbourne Computing Conventicle 2006. Collaborator in many studies in CS education, including BRACE (Building Research in Australasian Computing Education), RMIT mobile computing group, CSIT Academic Integrity group. Chief investigator in study on how lecturers and students manage in large groups with plagiarism detection software, and has developed interactive workshops for introducing students to academic integrity practices with regard to assessment which she has been invited to discuss at other universities. Published more than 30 papers in computer science education including plagiarism detection and academic integrity initiatives. Nominated for Carrick Citation for "leadership in promoting academic integrity and the development of a resource which engenders student and staff mentoring and management of plagiarism with fairness".
Joan Richardson, RMIT University BAppSci (Canberra), DipEd (LaTrobe), Med (LaTrobe), PhD (LaTrobe). Joan is the Deputy Director Teaching and Learning in the School of Business Information Technology at RMIT University. Joan has led University projects designed to strategically support design, development and implementation of new technologies in the higher education sector for a number of years. She has won University awards for curriculum development and construction and incremental development of suites of resources that utilise technology innovations for delivery. Since 2001 she has been the principal author of four editions of the text Computing For Business Success published by Pearson Education Australia. Each version of the text has included ‘state-of-the-art’ digital media and resources, in the form of companion CDROM’s and Web sites. This work has currently been extended to investigate the use of mobile technologies, namely SMS, to communicate with end-users of learning products. Projects undertaken in 2006 and 2008 have piloted a rudimentary prototype of an SMS student administrative service system. Joan has also led and/or been a team member in four RMIT University, Learning Investment Teaching Funds (LTIF) projects in 2008 and 2009.
Judithe Sheard, Senior Lecturer, Director of MIT and MNC (minor thesis) degrees, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. PhD (2006) "An Investigation of Student Behaviour in Web-based Learning Environments", Grad Dip DP (1974), BSc (1972). Leadership roles both nationally and internationally in the computing education research community. Co-director of the Computing Education Research Group at Monash and is an executive member of the Australasian chapter of the ACM special interest group in computing education (SIGCSE). A programme chair for the 4th Australasian Computing Education conference (2000) and co-leader of an international working group held at the ITiCSE conference in 2003 on Academics perceptions of cheating and plagiarism. Established, and is director of, the Monash Museum of Computing History. Monash Vice Chancellor's Award for Team-based Educational Development (2002) and School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Excellence Awards (2002 and 2003). She has worked on a number of computing education related projects and has had the role of chief investigator on 3 Monash IT Small Grants. More than 70 peer-reviewed publications on IT education and educational technology. Over 19 years teaching experience.
Celia Thompson, Lecturer, English as a Second Language (ESL) and Intensive Academic Program Coordinator, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne. PhD (2006) “Plagiarism and the Politics of Textual Ownership” MA Applied Linguistics (1998), RSA Dip TEFLA (1986), Cert Counselling (1983), Cert Ed (1978), BA (Hons) French & Euro Lit (1976). Member of TESOL (US) and ALAA (Australia) since 1998. Member of National Teaching Development Grant Team (1993-1995) that produced teacher training video materials for ESL learners. Participant in trialling and evaluating university plagiarism software detection system (2003). Nominated for Cultural Diversity and Faculty of Arts Teaching Awards (2003). Has been invited to give cross-disciplinary academic staff development seminars and conference papers on academic writing and plagiarism at universities nationwide. 18 years of university-based teaching in ESL and project-based approaches to learning. A reviewer for several national and international teaching and learning scholarly journals. More than 17 refereed publications relating to plagiarism and academic writing at tertiary level.
Jenny Waycott, Educational Technology Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne. PhD (2004) from the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK. Jenny has been involved in research in the fields of human-computer interaction and educational technology for the past decade. 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 mobile technologies as learning and workplace tools. Jenny has recently worked on another ALTC-funded project, "Educating the Net Generation: Implications for Learning and Teaching in Australian Universities".
