Becoming multiliterate: Digital video news construction within a technology-supported learning environment.

Lori Lockyer

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 6246–6254

Twenty-first century literacies imply multiliteracies – going beyond language literacy and numeracy to, among others, information, visual, media and technological literacies. An education that develops capabilities across a range of literacies...

A Web-Based E-Portfolio Support System For Teacher Education Students

Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 7010–7020

There is increasing interest in electronic portfolios as a means of collecting and presenting information about an individual's attributes and experiences. As part of their course of study, learners may be asked to assemble a portfolio to provide a...

Learner as designer-producer: Physical and health education students experience Web-based learning resource development.

Lori Lockyer; Yvonne Kerr

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 626–630

It has been demonstrated that an effective strategy for constructing meaning and knowledge about a particular subject area is in the design and production of subject-specific educational resources - particularly computer-based resources (Jonassen...

Topics: Educational Technology, Computers, Faculty, Physical Education

A Study of Teachers' Integration of Interactive Whiteboards into Four Australian Primary School Classrooms

Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 33, No. 4 (December 2008) pp. 289–300

Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have become increasingly available in Australian primary schools. However, little is known about how they are being integrated by teachers into their teaching practices. This paper reports on a study of the...

Becoming an Online Teacher: Adapting to a Changed Environment for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer

Educational Media International Vol. 41, No. 3 (January 2004) pp. 231–248

Advancements in online technologies have facilitated a convergence of distance and campus-based learning and, thus, offer new opportunities for all students through better access to resources, increased interaction between staff and students and...

Design and implementation strategies to support on-line programs for off-shore teaching

Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer; Ian Brown

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 386–389

By taking advantage of new on-line technologies many Australian universities now offer distance education programs to attract off-shore students. Rather than travel to Australia to study, these students remain in their own country and study by...

Topics: Students, Educational Technology, Distance Education

Facilitating Teacher Collaboration in On-line Environments

John Hedberg; Lori Lockyer; Bronwyn Stuckey

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2398–2402

Abstract: The research study set out to ask what part can be played by well-researched and designed on-line activities in shaping the future of, and meeting the needs of, teacher professional development. Over time the community of practice (Lave & ...

Topics: Professional Development, Community

The Development of an On-line Learning Community of Physical and Health Education Professionals.

Lori Lockyer; Gregg Rowland; John Patterson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 631–635

While ad hoc, course-specific projects have allowed early adopters to explore possible innovations in the use of information and communication technologies in facilitating flexible learning situations, educational institutions are now exploring...

Topics: Physical Education, Faculty, Information Communication Technologies, Educational Technology, Professional Development

"Making News Today": A Tool for Adoption of Ethics Principles Using Technology-Supported Television Journalism

David Blackall; Lori Lockyer; Barry M. Harper

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 36, No. 3 (2011) pp. 277–294

There are movements internationally towards curricula that incorporate values and citizenship education. In Australia, this movement has been illustrated with the adoption of a national curriculum in values education. This has arisen from the...

Investigating University Educators' Design Thinking and the Implications for Design Support Tools

Sue Bennett; Shirley Agostinho; Lori Lockyer

Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2016, No. 1 (2016)

All university educators perform design work as they prepare and plan learning experiences for their students. How such design work is undertaken, conceptualised, and optimally supported is the focus of ongoing research for the authors. The purpose...

Health Education in a Web-based Learning Environment: Learners' Perceptions

Barry Harper; John Patterson; Lori Lockyer

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 56–61

The increasing utilization of the World Wide Web in higher education allows instructors to re examine pedagogical strategies and explore ways of taking advantage of the Web's potential to provide for learning experiences that go beyond that...

Topics: Students

A Learning Design to Support Multi-Literacy Development in K-12 Contexts

Lori Lockyer; Ian Brown; David Blackall

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1703–1706

The importance of the educational system in providing opportunities for students to develop multiple skill sets has become topic for global debate. It is argued that educational interventions focused on multi-literacy development should involve...

Topics: Educational Technology, Literacy

Towards a more detailed understanding of professional learning mediated by educational tools

Madeleine Shanahan; Lori Lockyer; Shane Dawson

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1441–1450

Knowledge updating is an essential learning activity for professionals. This study adopted Vygotsky’s (1981) triadic model of learning mediated by tools as a theoretical framework to examine inter-relationships that may exist between subject,...

Topics: pedagogical issues, cooperative/collaborative learning, Other: Research, Library Issues, etc.

Technological Diversity: An Investigation of Students' Technology Use in Everyday Life and Academic Study

Linda Corrin; Lori Lockyer; Sue Bennett

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 35, No. 4 (December 2010) pp. 387–401

Generational generalisations regarding how students interact with technology have been used in recent times to prompt calls for radical changes to the delivery of teaching in higher education. This article reports on a study aimed to investigate...

The Life of a 'Digital Native'

Linda Corrin; Lori Lockyer; Sue Bennett

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 2942–2951

There have been many claims about the characteristics of the new generation of ‘digital native’ students participating in higher education. The lack of empirical evidence upon which many of these early claims were based has been highlighted in a...

Social Capital from Online Discussion Forums: Differences between Online and Blended Modes of Delivery

Charles Carceller; Shane Dawson; Lori Lockyer

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 31, No. 2 (2015) pp. 150–163

This study explored the concept of social capital in higher education contexts by investigating student discussion forum activity and academic performance. To address these aims online discussion forum logs, student marks and teaching delivery...

Technology tools to support learning design: Implications derived from an investigation of university teachers' design practices

Sue Bennett; Shirley Agostinho; Lori Lockyer

Computers & Education Vol. 81, No. 1 (February 2015) pp. 211–220

The need to improve the quality of higher education has fostered an interest in technology tools to support effective design for teaching and learning. Over the past decade this interest has led to the development of tools to support the creation of ...

Language: English

Towards sustainable technology-enhanced innovation in higher education: Advancing learning design by understanding and supporting teacher design practice

Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer; Shirley Agostinho

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 49, No. 6 (November 2018) pp. 1014–1026

Improving teacher design promises to be a scalable, sustainable approach to building capacity amongst a workforce faced with complex and evolving drivers of change in higher education worldwide. While design has long been recognised as a routine...

MOOCs: Free Education for Some

Adrian Norman; Lori Lockyer; Sue Bennett

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 159–164

This paper reports on a quantitative component of a larger explanatory sequential mixed-methods study, which investigated how people learned in MOOCs. Responses from an online survey were grouped together using the human development index for each...

Topics: Research Perspectives, Teaching/Learning Strategies

Professional Development On-line - Doing IT Pedagogically

John Hedberg; Lori Lockyer; Bronwyn Stuckey

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2439–2444

This paper describes the first phase of a research study to examine the role played by Internet-based teacher professional development in the implementation of an innovation. The innovation in this study is the software application (StageStruck)...

Topics: Professional Development, Software, Teachers

Social capital from online discussion forums: Differences between online and blended modes of delivery

Charles Carceller; Shane Dawson; Lori Lockyer

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun 22, 2015)

This study explored the concept of social capital in higher education contexts by investigating student discussion forum activity and academic performance. To address these aims online discussion forum logs, student marks and teaching delivery...

Investigating the factors that influence the use of digital learning resources in the K-12 educational context

Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer; Ian Brown

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2391–2403

Australian and New Zealand governments have made a significant investment in the establishment of an on-line repository that will make digital learning resources, also called learning objects, available to teachers in the K-12 sector. The focus of...

Topics: Learning Objects

The Place of Internet-based Architectures in Supporting the Professional Practice of Teaching

Lori Lockyer; John Hedberg; Bronwyn Stuckey

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2456–2460

Abstract This paper describes the varied technologies and on-line architectures that serve to meet the needs of practicing classroom teachers and the ways in which they can meet those needs. The symbiosis between education reform and the integration ...

Topics: Professional Development, Classrooms, Educational Technology, Internet, Community

Investigating Lecturers’ use of Learning Designs to Support Technology Enhanced Course Design

Jennifer Jones; Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 2719–2725

The effective integration of technology into teaching and learning has been a focus of universities and governments for the past decade. Yet progress towards this goal has been limited to date. Knowledge of how to integrate technology has become a...

Identifying the characteristics of support Australian university teachers use in their design work: Implications for the learning design field

Shirley Agostinho; Lori Lockyer; Sue Bennett

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 34, No. 2 (Apr 27, 2018)

Quality teaching is a strategic objective for universities; thus, there is an expectation that university teachers design high quality learning experience for their students. The field of learning design has developed over the past 15 years as a way ...

Posion Vacant: new learner...Skills required: multiliterate

Ian Brown; Lori Lockyer; Adrian Norman

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3530–3534

This paper will support the argument for the development of multi-literacies through educational interventions, which involve rich pedagogy and integrate existing and emerging technologies. The research project (currently being undertaken in an...

Topics: Integration, Literacy, Educational Technology, Learning Outcomes

Understanding Students' Use and Value of Technology for Learning

Karley Beckman; Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 39, No. 3 (2014) pp. 346–367

Despite significant research in the field of educational technology, there is still much we do not fully understand about students' experiences with technology. This article proposes that research in the field of educational technology would...

Web 2.0 in Higher Education: blurring social networks and learning networks

Lori Lockyer; Shane Dawson; Elizabeth Heathcote

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 2454–2461

This paper reports on a study that investigated how two cohorts of students (in medicine and education) adopted a social networking platform to assist their university studies. The study examines the sites of dissonance between predicted and actual...

Measuring Effectiveness of Health Education in a Web-Based Learning Environment: A Preliminary Report

Lori Lockyer; John Patterson; Barry Harper

Higher Education Research and Development Vol. 18, No. 2 (1999) pp. 233–46

A study with 62 students compared the effectiveness of face-to-face and World Wide Web-based instruction in the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) segment of an undergraduate health-education course. Results suggest collaborative learning...

A Journey Through a Design-Based Research Project

Wayne Cotton; Lori Lockyer; Gwyn Brickell

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 1364–1371

This paper discusses how Design-Based Research was utilised to inform the methodological design of a completed project conducted at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. The project focused on the systematic development of an...

Applying a Learning Design to the Design of a University Unit: a Single Case Study

Jennifer Jones; Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 3340–3349

Learning designs have been proposed as a possible support to lecturers’ unit design processes. The collection of exemplary learning designs, development of tools and design languages have been the focus of the majority of activity to date. Research ...

Reconceptualizing technology as a social tool: A secondary school student case study

Karley Beckman; Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1554–1559

This paper asserts that technology is an innately social tool and that the field of educational technology can benefit from research with a sociological framing. The study reported on in this paper adopts Bourdieu’s sociological concepts to...

Topics: pedagogical issues, Implementation Experiences

Developing Multiliteracies in a Technology-Mediated Environment

Natalie Cooper; Lori Lockyer; Ian Brown

Educational Media International Vol. 50, No. 2 (2013) pp. 93–107

Evolving technologies and globalisation presents educators with the challenge of creating learning experiences to help students develop competencies to enable them to function successfully in a dynamic society. Today's learner is expected to be...

From neural to social: Medical student admissions criteria and engagement in a social learning environment

Shane Dawson; Leah Macfadyen; Lori Lockyer; David Mazzochi-Jones

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 292–301

Notions of what it is to be knowledgeable and skilled in one‘s profession have evolved in recent decades. For instance, medical practitioners are expected to think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, and to be a professional and...

Eye tracking and early detection of confusion in digital learning environments: Proof of concept

Mariya Pachman; Amal Arguel; Lori Lockyer; Gregor Kennedy; Jason Lodge

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 32, No. 6 (Dec 15, 2016)

Research on incidence of and changes in confusion during complex learning and problem-solving calls for advanced methods of confusion detection in digital learning environments (DLEs). In this study we attempt to address this issue by investigating...

The Design of Performance Support Systems to Contextualise Generic Learning Designs

Wayne Cotton; Lori Lockyer; Gwyn Brickell; Barry Harper

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 476–482

This paper outlines a study of the design and development of a Performance Support System (PSS) for a large-scale project. The project focuses on integrating technology to support learning associated with a K-12 visitation program at the site of the ...

Topics: Teachers, Learning Objects, Games

Beginning teacher network: The design of an online community of practice for beginning teachers in Australia

Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lori Lockyer; Ian Brown

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3251–3258

The high attrition rate of teachers in their first five years of teaching coupled with an ageing teacher profile necessitates innovative approaches to beginning teacher support and professional development. This paper argues (and provides a...

Topics: Community, Teachers, Professional Development, Research Methods

Cross-cultural online communication: Making connections through project-based learning

Mike Keppell; Morris Jong; Harold Tsang; Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1233–1240

This paper examines a project that encourages cross-cultural communication among teacher-education students through online discussion and project-based learning. An authentic case was presented to eleven students (divided into two groups) who...

Topics: Learning Management Systems, Mentoring, Communication, Students

Developing a learning object metadata application profile based on LOM suitable for the Australian higher education context

Shirley Agostinho; Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer; Barry Harper

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2004) pp. 191–208

This paper reports recent work in developing of structures and processes that support university teachers and instructional designers incorporating learning objects into higher education focused learning designs. The aim of the project is to...

New Designs for Web Based Learning Environments

Barry Harper; John O’Donoghue; Ron Oliver; Lori Lockyer

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 674–675

With the continued advances in information and communication technology comes the interconnectivity of education institutions, businesses and industries. Either by default or association, the traditional education system will need to change and...

Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Educational Technology

Use of Computer-Mediated Communication To Form a Knowledge-Building Community in Initial Teacher Education

Brian Ferry; Julie Kiggins; Garry Hoban; Lori Lockyer

Annual Meeting of the Australian Association for Research in Education 2001 (December 2001)

This study investigated how different types of computer-mediated communication (CMC) such as asynchronous forums, synchronous forums and e-mail were used to support an alternative approach to initial teacher education that relied on the formation of ...

Energy Balance: Design and formative evaluation of a health education multimedia game

Lori Lockyer; Rob Wright; Sue Curtis; Owen Curtis; Anthony Hodgson

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2721–2724

Abstract: Similar to trends in other developed nations, the increasing incidence of childhood obesity in Australia has become an alarming trend and a significant health issue. For some time, school health education programs have included components...

Topics: Health

Conceptualising Technology Practice in Education Using Bourdieu's Sociology

Karley Beckman; Tiffani Apps; Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 43, No. 2 (2018) pp. 197–210

Evidence from large-scale studies of primary and secondary students' technology practices at school over the last decade show disparities in student practices and suggest that schools need to do more to cater for all students. Research that explores ...

An Online Mentoring Practicum in Physical and Health Education teacher preparation: Preliminary findings and future directions

Doug Hearne; Lori Lockyer; Gregg Rowland; John Patterson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1546–1553

An important aspect of any professional education is the opportunity for students to engage in meaningful practical experiences. In pre-service teacher education, this vital practicum component has undergone challenges in recent years due to...

Topics: Students, Professional Development, Teachers

Learning Designs to Support Educationally Effective E-learning Using Learning Objects

Barry Harper; Sue Bennett; Jason Lukasiak; Lori Lockyer

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4732–4738

This paper describes a design approach for integrating learning objects based on a strong pedagogical framework, the Smart Learning Design Framework (SLDF). The framework is based on the assumptions that good learning settings focus on pedagogically ...

Topics: Learning Objects

Investigating the suitability of pedagogical descriptors for digital learning resources

Shirley Agostinho; Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer; Barry Harper

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3482–3489

This paper reports on the initial work conducted by a project focussed on exploring how learning objects could be used by university teachers and instructional designers to create learning experiences for their students. The project's aim is to...

Topics: Instructional Design, Learning Objects

Investigating the Implementation of Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom

Sue Bennett; Lori Lockyer; Louise Thake; Chris Campbell

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 861–863

The study described in this paper is a preliminary investigation into the implementation of interactive electronic whiteboard technology in classroom teaching at Gordon Primary School in the Australian Capital Territory. Data about the...

Topics: Schools, Classrooms

A Technology Supported Visitation Program to the Sydney Olympic Park: Learner Challenges and Teacher Support

Gwyn Brickell; Lori Lockyer; Jan Herrington; Gordon Brown; Barry Harper

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4683–4689

This paper outlines the development and initial implementation of a technology-supported visitation program for the site of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Australia – the Sydney Olympic Park. The site is embedded with rich content and offers a...

Topics: Learning Objects, Games

Becoming a beginning teacher: An online mentoring experience for pre-service physical and health educators

Doug Hearne; Lori Lockyer; Gregg Rowland; John Patterson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4967–4972

A key feature of any professional education is opportunity for students to engage in meaningful practical learning experiences. In pre-service teacher education, the practicum is a central component. However, due to increasing student numbers and...

Topics: Teachers, Mentoring, Physical Education

Understanding University Teachers’ Approaches to Design

Sue Bennett; Shirley Agostinho; Lori Lockyer; Lisa Kosta; Jennifer Jones; Barry Harper

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3631–3637

Little is known about university teachers’ approaches to design. This paper presents preliminary findings from a study that is investigating design processes of teachers in higher education. A summary of the design processes of two Australian...

Topics: Teachers