About

Robert Fitzgerald, University of Canberra

Current position: Professor and Director, Inspire: Centre for ICT Pedagogy and Practice, University of Canberra.

Qualifications: BEd(Prim) CCAE, BEd(Sec) Vic Coll, MEd (Hons) UNE, PhD Sydney

Experience: Robert Fitzgerald is a Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Canberra, Australia. His current work explores the ways in which new technologies and social media afford opportunities to re-shape and expand educational experiences in both developed and developing countries. He led the ALTC-funded Digital Learning Communities project on social software and is currently leading the ICT component of a $1.4 million AusAid project developing the use of user-led technologies to enhance research collaboration and user-engagement in rural Pakistan. The ARC recognises him as an ‘expert of international standing’. Robert has published over

forty research and conference papers and in the last ten years has attracted over $1 million in competitive grant funding. Recent publications include:

Nielsen, T.N., Fitzgerald, R.N. & Fettes, M. (Eds) (2010). Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice: A Many-sided Vision. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Newcastle upon Tyne.

Fitzgerald, R.N & Findlay, J. (2010). Collaborative research tools: Using wikis and team learning systems to collectively create new knowledge. Edited by Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Handbook of Emergent Technologies and Social Research. Oxford University Press, Boston.

Ryan, Y. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2009). Exploring the role of social software in higher education. Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies (pp159-173). Stylianos Hatzipanagos and Steven Warburton (Eds), IGI Global, Information Science Reference, Hershey: New York. ISBN: 978-1- 60566-208-4.

Fitzgerald, R.N., Steele, J. et al. (2009). Digital learning communities (DLC): Investigating the application of social software to support networked learning. Australian Learning and Teaching Council. ISBN: 978-1- 74088-296-5. 52pp. Available http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18476/1/c18476.pdf. Since March 2009, this report has been downloaded 1090 times from QUT’s ERA Repository.

Dr James Steele, University of Canberra

Current Position: AR Studio Project Manager

Anna Wilson, ANU

Current position: Associate Professor and second year coordinator, Physics Education Centre (ANU) and Teaching and Learning Centre (UC)

Qualifications: BSc (Hons) (Bristol), PhD (Liverpool), Grad.Cert.Higher Ed., MHEd (ANU), Experience: Course development and delivery at all levels of physics, including first year non- continuing physics, quantum physics, nuclear and particle physics. Coordinator of second year physics at ANU 2010-present. Course development and delivery as part of ANU’s Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. Academic representative on the Design Working Party for the ANU’s current science teaching space redevelopment.

Awards: ANU College of Teaching Award (Team Category) 2006. ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2006. ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning and ALTC Award for Teaching Excellence in 2008.

John Hedberg

Current Position: Professor, Millennium Innovations Chair of ICT and Education and

Head, Department of Education, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University Qualifications: PhD, Syracuse University, BSc, Dip Ed, MEd (Sydney)

Experience: John holds the Millennium Innovations Chair of ICT and Education in the School of Education. He has taught postgraduate courses on cognitive strategies, interface design for learning, and implementation and evaluation of technology-based learning. He has also taught strategic planning for technology implementation in schools and has also written on policy aspects of new technologies in education. John currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Interactive Learning Research, ALT-J, Distance Education and the program committee for Asia-Pacific e-Learning Conference. From 2000-2006, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Educational Media International, a refereed journal for those interested in the application of media and technology in learning contexts throughout the world and he served as the President of the International Council for Educational Media, a UNESCO affiliate between 2006 and 2008.

Recent publications include:

Hedberg, J. G. (2011). Towards a disruptive pedagogy: Changing classroom practice with technologies and digital content. Educational Media International, 43(1), 1-16.

McNeill, M., Gosper, M. & Hedberg, J. (2010). Aligning technologies and the curriculum: A snapshot of academic practice. Paper presented at Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age Conference. 15 – 17 October 2010, Timisoara, Romania.

Bower, M., Fong, S. F., Hedberg, J., & Cameron, L. (2010). Towards student-centred uses of learning technologies in Malaysia. In Global Learn 2010, Penang, Malaysia, (pp. 782-789): AACE.

Bower, M., & Hedberg, J. (2010). A quantitative multimodal discourse analysis of teaching and learning in a web-conferencing environment – The efficacy of student-centred learning designs. Computers & Education, 54(2), 462-478.

Bower, M., Hedberg, J., & Kuswara, A. (2009). Conceptualising Web 2.0 enabled learning designs. In Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Aukland, (pp. 1153- 1162).

Paul Krix, University of Canberra

Current Position: Developer / Designer