蜜豆视频

Contact details

• Ph: 84409
  Location: 3.07, Registry Building
  Campus: Manawatu

Qualifications

• Master of Education - 蜜豆视频 (2007)
• Doctor of Philosophy - 蜜豆视频 (2011)

Fellowships and Memberships

• Member, Higher Education Academy (Senior Member/Fellow) (2020)

Certifications and Registrations

• Licence, Supervisor, 蜜豆视频

Prizes and Awards

• The article titled: 鈥淯sing Education Theory and Research to Refine Agricultural Extension: Affordances and Barriers for Farmers鈥� Learning and Practice Change鈥� (ORO10) was chosen as the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension (JAEE) Education and Learning Sciences best article for the year 2017. The paper examines the factors that support and hinder farmers鈥� learning and investigates farmers' actual practice changes having participated in our socioculturally informed learning programme. The affordances for learning and practice change include: belonging in a learning community, enhancing self-efficacy, engaging with scientists, and reinforcing and validating learning Our team won the JAEE 'paper of the year 2017', with journal editor Angela Pachuau, saying: 鈥淭he Editorial committee congratulate you and your co-authors for presenting an interesting paper. Your research provides useful insight with a deliberate attempt to advance educational theory in the field of agricultural extension.鈥� (28 November, 2017) This wider research project has impacted the learning and practice of 45 farmers and has led to 10 conference presentations (nationally and internationally) and 6 publications in conference proceedings. - Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension Wageningen University & Research, Social Sciences Gp (2017)
• Received International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning editors鈥� choice Best Article, 2011 award for 鈥淓xamining motivation in online distance learning environments: Complex, multifaceted and situation-dependent鈥� (see N01). The award was based on quality, relevance and value to the discipline as well as the number of times the article has been downloaded. - (2011)

Research Interests

My research focuses on the intersection of technologies and pedagogies and their influence on learners’ and teachers’ experiences, motivation, engagement and behaviour in technology enhanced, mediated and immersive learning contexts. Her research interests include motivation and engagement in digital environments, teaching and learning with digital technologies, digital inclusion, support for digital learners and teachers, digital inclusion, digital places and spaces of learning that encompass new learning environments, emerging digital technologies including digital badges, teacher and learner experiences in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and the use of digital tools in learning such as electronic portfolios and mobile technologies. My research interests are not confined to formal learning settings but span a wide range of places and spaces for learning.

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Curriculum and Pedagogy (130200): Education (130000): Education Systems (130100): Educational Technology and Computing (130306): Higher Education (130103): Specialist Studies in Education (130300): Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators (130313)

Keywords

digital education, digital inclusion, e-learning, elearning, online, technologies, technology, digital, motivation, digital badges, MOOCs, engagement, portfolios, teaching, learning, learners, teachers, distributed, education, mobile learning, openness

Completed Projects

Graduate Supervision Statement

My research focuses on digital education, particularly the intersection of technologies and pedagogies and their influence on learners’ and teachers’ experiences, motivation, engagement, and behaviour in technology-enhanced, mediated, and immersive learning contexts. Research interests include motivation and engagement in digital environments, digital inclusion and equity, experiences and perceptions of digital learners and teachers, digital assessment, digital places and spaces of learning that encompass new learning environments, and emerging digital technologies including digital badges.

Media

• 05 Jul 2016 - Magazine
  Motivation in Online education
  Education Review Series: Postgraduate & Research
• 03 Apr 2016 - Newspaper
  Teenagers as digital natives 'a myth'
  Sunday Start Times Newspaper article (p. A5)

Other Links

• - As any university student, lecturer or tutor can attest, the pandemic has turned learning and teaching upside down. So it鈥檚 important we understand what happens for students when their learning shifts
• - Teenagers as digital natives 'a myth'