Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Invited Speaker
Recent research attests to a growing appreciation of the need to encourage learner control over the whole learning process. Web 2.0 tools and technologies enable greater learner agency and are capable of supporting informal conversation, dialogue, collaborative content generation, while facilitating access to a wide raft of ideas and representations. Used appropriately, such tools can shift control to the learner, through promoting learner choice, participation, autonomy and engagement in social networks that straddle multiple real and virtual learning spaces independent of physical, geographic, institutional and organisational boundaries. In order for self-regulated learning to come to fruition, however, students need to be able to choose and personalise not only what tools and content are available, but also to have access to scaffolding to support their learning. Emerging practices with social networking technologies signal the need for pedagogies that are more social, personal and participatory. This invited address will present emerging best practice in designing learning environments, activities and forms of assessment tasks that engage and motivate students.
Associate Professor Catherine McLoughlin has is currently Coordinator of SIMERR ACT, the Research Centre for Science, Information Technology and Mathematics Education for Rural and regional Australia (SiMERR) at the School of Education, Australian Catholic University, Canberra. Dr McLoughlin is the author and co-author of over 200 refereed publications, including journal articles, book chapters and conference papers on a wide range of topics related to e-learning, design of culturally sensitive learning environments, internationalization of the curriculum. the evaluation of learning technologies, and pedagogical transformation of teaching and learning with technology.
Dr McLoughlin is editor of the Australian Journal of Educational Technology and a member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Educational Technology and Australian Educational Computing. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and related to pedagogical improvement and innovation, translating theory into practice –through appropriate learning design and learning environments; evidence based practice in the application of emerging and mobile technologies and the development of underpinning research frameworks and theory for current ICT process and practice in teaching and learning.
Currently, Dr McLoughlin is project coordinator of a number of research projects relating to e-safety frameworks for schools, adoption of Web 2.0 tools and mobile technologies in teaching and learning, (eg podcasting) and peer mentoring to develop professional skills among pre-service teachers.
Recent Publications include:
Lee, M.J.W. & McLoughlin, C. (Eds) (forthcoming, 2010). Web 2.0-based e-learning: applying social informatics for tertiary teaching. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
McLoughlin, C. & Lee, M.J.W. (forthcoming, 2010). Pedagogy 2.0: Critical challenges and responses to social software in higher education.In M.J.W. Lee & C. McLoughlin (Eds), Web 2.0-based e-learning: applying social informatics for tertiary teaching. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
McLoughlin, C. & Lee, M.J.W. (2009). Educational podcasting: a taxonomy of pedagogical applications. In T. Dumova & R. Fiordo (Eds), Handbook of research on social interaction technologies and collaboration software: concepts and trends. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. See publisher's website.
