Dr Gail Wilson BA(Hons)(Tor), BEd(Tor), MEd(Macquarie), PhD(Deakin) Gail is an Associate Professor and Acting Director, Teaching and Learning, Division of Teaching and Learning, Southern Cross University. Prior to joining SCU in 2010, she worked in academic development and management roles in teaching and learning centres at Charles Sturt University, the University of Western Sydney and Bond University. Gail has also taught in higher education and adult and vocational education institutions, and has held management roles in the public and private sectors. Gail is a member of several Australian and overseas journal review panels, and currently serves on editorial boards for two journals - the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology(AJET) and Research in Learning Technology. From 2005 to 2011 she was a member of the executive of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) where she was responsible for the development of the current HERDSA website and chaired the Publications portfolio. Gail was one of three members of the Steering Committee of a large teaching and learning grant funded by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) called Preparing Academics to Teach in Higher Education - the PATHE project - whose final report was published in 2010. An extension to this grant funded by the Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) focused on the development of online modules for staff who teach in higher education teacher preparation programs (TPPs). This project was completed in October 2012. Gail’s doctoral research examined the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in higher education, incorporating a collective case study of six teachers, all early adopters of ICT, who used ICT to facilitate their use of blended learning approaches to their on-campus teaching. The research also examined institutional models for professional development for faculty for the online environment, and the relationship between theories of learning and popular professional development approaches supporting the professional learning of university teachers. Her most recent publications have built on her thesis research and her research focus on blended learning has extended into the area of learning spaces. She has recently published a book chapter on faculty development for web-enhanced teaching and has co-authored a publication on new learning spaces published in March 2012. Gail is also a publications editor for the Association of Learning Technology (ALT) 2013 conference in the UK.
Journal articles
The implementation and evaluation of a new learning space: a pilot study (with Marcus Randall), Research in Learning Technology (2012)
A dramatic, pedagogical shift has occurred in recent years in educational environments in higher education,...
The implementation and evaluation of a new learning space: a pilot study (with Marcus Randall), Research in Learning Technology (2012)
A dramatic, pedagogical shift has occurred in recent years in educational environments in higher education,...
Transitioning from print-based to digital teaching portfolio assessment in a Foundations of University Learning and Teaching subject (with Rozz Albon), Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts (2009)
The concept of a teaching portfolio in higher education is not new. However, for many...
Promoting staff learning about assessment through digital representations of practice: evaluating a pilot project (with Rosemary Thomson), Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (2008)
The Assessment Snapshots digital resource is a current project to support academic learning about assessment...
Books
Proceedings papers of the ALT-C 2012: a confrontation with reality (with David Hawkridge and Steven Verjans), (2012)
Community engagement in contemporary legal education: pro bono, clinical education and service-learning (with Patrick Keyzer and Amy Kenworthy), (2009)
Teachers in blended learning environments: case studies of ICT-enhanced blended learning in higher education, (2008)
This study reports on recent doctoral research focused on six academic staff working in early...
Book chapters
Promoting Web-enhanced learning in university teaching: current practice in Web-enhanced faculty development, Faculty training for Web-enhanced learning (2011)
Encouraging faculty’s adoption of and innovation in learning and teaching with technologies continues to be...
Case studies of ICT-enhanced blended learning environments and professional development of faculty, Effective blended learning practices: evidence-based perspectives in ICT-facilitated education (2009)
This chapter reports a collective study of research–based evidence of experiences of academic staff adopting...
New skills and ways of working: faculty development for e-learning, Making the transition to e-learning: strategies and issues (2007)
This chapter provides a practitioner-focused review and analysis of the different approaches to faculty development...
Reports
Preparing academics to teach in higher education. Final report (with Margaret Hicks, Heather Smigiel, and Ann Luzeckyj), (2010)
The Preparing Academics to Teach in Higher Education (PATHE) project was a three-year project funded...
Refereed conference papers
Continuing professional learning of teachers: is this concept more valid for current higher education? (with Janet A. Taylor), Research and development in higher education: higher education on the edge: 34th HERDSA Annual International Conference (2011)
Continuing professional learning is based on the notion that learning for professionals is continuing, active,...
Implementing and evaluating a “Next Generation Learning Space”: a pilot study (with Marcus Randall), Curriculum, technology and transformation for an unknown future: proceedings of ascilite 2010 (2010)
A dramatic, pedagogical shift has occurred in recent years in educational environments in higher education,...
Making it my street: the Bond University "Street" area (with Marcus Randall), Learning spaces in higher education: positive outcomes by design. Proceedings of the Next Generation Learning Spaces 2008 Colloquium, 1st and 2nd October (2009)
Extract: The Street area is the central point of the University’s main teaching building. Until...
The pod room - a group learning space (with Marcus Randall), Learning spaces in higher education: positive outcomes by design. Proceedings of the Next Generation Learning Spaces 2008 Colloquium, 1st and 2nd October (2009)
Extract: Bond University has recently completed construction of an engaging formal teaching space, known as...
Promoting staff learning about assessment through digital representations of practice: evaluating a pilot project (ASCILITE 2007) (with Rosemary Thomson), 24th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE 2007) (2007)
The Assessment Snapshots digital resource is a current project to support academic learning about assessment...