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Challenging mobile learning discourse through research: Student perceptions of Blackboard Mobile Learn and iPads (with Jeffrey Brand and Trishita Mathew), Australasian journal of educational technology (2012)

Many university academics disagree with the rationale that we should pursue mobile learning because 21st...

 

Academic developer identifier: How we know who we are (with Kayleen Wood), International journal for academic development (2011)

This paper explores academic developer identity by applying self-concept theory and appreciative inquiry to the...

 

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Hunters & gatherers: Strategies for curriculum mapping and data collection for assurance of learning (with Romy Lawson, Tracy Taylor, Eveline Fallshaw, Erica French, Cathy Hall, and Jane Summers), ATN Assessment Conference 2011 (2011)

Assurance of learning is a predominant feature in both quality enhancement and assurance in higher...

 

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Student perspective on electronic evaluation of teaching (with Diana Knight and Lauren Hives), Studies in learning, evaluation, innovation and development (2011)

Research indicates that administering university student evaluation of teaching electronically rather than via paper-based surveys...

 

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Uncoupling mobility and learning: When one does not guarantee the other (with Jeffrey Brand, Trishita Mathew, and Ron Kordyban), Enhancing learning through technology: Education unplugged: Mobile technologies and web 2.0 (2011)

Mobile learning was an embedded component of the pedagogical design of an undergraduate course, Digital...

 

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Children’s wonder-initiated phenomenological research: A rural primary school case study (with Michelle Hoffman), Studies in learning, evaluation, innovation and development (SLEID) (2009)

This article presents research into an award winning case study of pedagogical school renewal. The...

 

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Pedagogical sustainability of a rural school and its relationship with community (with Michelle Hoffman), Rural society (2009)

This article presents and analyses a single pedagogic case of a small, rural primary state...

 

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Child as researcher: Within and beyond the classroom (with Madison Hoffman), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)

This article was authored by a university educator and a twelve year-old child. The first...

 

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Tertiary educator identity: We know who we are (with Stephen Hughes), Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development (2008)

To inform a coherent pedagogy through examined identity as professor requires more than constructing a...

 

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Animating inquiry-based teaching in grade-school classrooms, Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (2007)

This paper describes interpretive empirical research with five teachers who: a) articulate their pedagogy as...

 

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A review of 2000-2003 literature at the intersection of online learning and disability (with Susan Crichton and Weol Soon Kim-Rupnow), American journal of distance education (2004)

Literature published between 2000 and 2003 at the intersection between online learning and disability can...

 

Books

A recipe for success: What you can learn about coping in a food-bombarded world from people with Prader-Willi Syndrome, an extreme eating disorder, Shelley Kinash (2007)

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In North America, 64% of adults and 25% of children are overweight or obese....

 

Accessible education for blind learners: Kindergarten through postsecondary, Shelley Kinash (2007)

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The goal of this manual is to enhance the capacity of all members of...

 

Seeing beyond blindness, Shelley Kinash (2006)

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Inside this book are reflections on the nature of vision and blindness. Further, there...

 

Book Chapters

Beyond the binaries that keep us from writing with and like children (with Kirsten Kinash), Beyond binaries in education research (2011)

Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to...

 

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Blended learning internationalization from the Commonwealth: An Australian and Canadian collaborative case study (with Susan Crichton), Cases on Globalized and Culturally Appropriate E-Learning: Challenges and Solutions (2011)

This case depiction addresses the contentious issue of providing culturally and globally accessible teaching and...

 

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Storied by children: Authored by adults (with Kirsten Kinash), Troubling terrains: Tactics for traversing and transforming contemporary educational research (2008)

The dominant school discourse is urban, American, anthored by academics in a linear format. This...

 

Supporting the disabled student, Handbook of Distance Education, 2nd Edition (2007)

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French and Valdes (2002) indicated that one in five people has a disability....

 

Book Reviews

Book review: Diary of a French girl: Surviving intercultural encounters, Higher education research and development (2010)

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What if we were privy to the innermost thoughts and feelings of one of...

 

Book review: Whose university is it, anyway? Power and privilege on gendered terrain, Higher education research & development (2009)

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What is this book about? This book is about the diversity of human experience....

 

Book Review: We know who we are: A history of the blind in challenging educational and socially constructed policies: A study in policy archeology, Disability, culture and education (2002)
 

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Professional development: Whose responsibility should it be?, Education technology solutions (2012)

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Evidence is amassing to prove that teaching with technology can improve learning. According to research,...

 

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The Game Book: A University Game Plan (with Josh Kinash), Education technology solutions (2012)

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The December 2011 issue of Rolling Stone magazine included an article about a child prodigy....

 

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Breaking the log-jam: Teaching the teachers about technology (with Ron Kordyban), Educational technology solutions (2012)

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Like logs in a metaphoric lumber mill, educational technologies are streaming in faster than they...

 

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Electronic teaching evaluation: Student perceptions and teacher responses (with Vishen Naidu and Kayleen Wood), Education technology solutions (2012)

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One of the most important ways of evaluating teachers and education is by asking the...

 

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It's mobile, but is it learning?, Education technology solutions (2011)

Mobile learning is defined as a portable process of teaching and study using internet-connected devices...

 

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New generation of what?, Education technology solutions (2011)

At a recent faculty meeting, debate raged over two topics: student use of laptops and...

 

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Higher education, Education technology solutions (2011)

While university is challenging for every student, some learners find the difficulties nearly insurmountable. International...

 

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Pedagogy: Telling, creating and sharing, Education technology solutions (2011)

This is the first article in a regular column called The Next Step. This column...

 

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Walking the technology talk: The tools that enhance collaborative work (with Diana Knight), Education technology solutions (2011)

Current research yields numerous compelling accounts of how educational technology enhances teaching and learning. Yet...

 

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Kidcam: Digital photography at school (with Michelle Hoffman), Education technology solutions (2010)

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This article is about an award-winning case-study at the Flagstone Creek State School...

 

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Podcasts, Education technology solutions (2008)

Podcasts are a flexible digital means of sharing information. A podcast is usually an audio...

 

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Flagstone Creek School project, Education Technology Solutions (2008)

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At the beginning of the 2008 school year, the staff and students of Flagstone Creek...

 

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Talking books, Education technology solutions (2008)

What are talking books? They are multi-media literacy tools. They are digital tools that combine...

 

Presentations

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Blackboard Platinum Mobile Catalyst Award, Bond University (2012)

Bond University documented a significant improvement in student success after implementing Blackboard Mobile Learn. Dr....

 

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Universal design for learning in higher education (2011)
 

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Pad-agogy: A quasi-experimental and ethnographic pilot test of the iPad in a blended mobile learning environment (with Jeffrey Brand), 27th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) (2010)

Does student use of mobile technologies make a difference to their learning? Many educators make...

 

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Blended learning internationalisation from the Commonwealth: An Australian & Canadian collaborative case study (with Susan Crichton and Margaret McAvoy), International Association for Development of the Information Society’s Conference on International Higher Education (2010)
 

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Teaching and learning research methods and methodology (with Kayleen Wood and Trishita Mathew), Presented at Bond University: HDR Workshop (2010)
 

eTEVAL pilot project: Migrating teacher evaluations to the online environment (with Lauren Hives and Diana Knight), 4th International multi-conferenceon society, cybernetics and informatics: IMSCI 2010 (2010)

Since 1989 Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia has conducted student evaluation of teaching (TEVALs)...

 

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Internationalisation: Language & drama: Part 1, Quality Assurance, Bond University (2009)
 

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Internationalisation: Language & drama: Part 2, Quality Assurance, Bond University (2009)
 

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Internationalisation: Language & drama: Part 3, Quality Assurance, Bond University (2009)
 

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Internationalisation: Language & drama: Part 4, Quality Assurance, Bond University (2009)
 

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Internationalisation: Language & drama: Part 5, Quality Assurance, Bond University (2009)
 

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Internationalisation: Language & drama: Part 6, Quality Assurance, Bond University (2009)
 

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Internationalisation: Language competitions: Part 1, Quality Assurance, Bond University (2009)
 

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Internationalisation: Language competitions: Part 2, Quality Assurance, Bond University (2009)
 

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An interview with ALTC award winner: Geoff Crisp, Teaching and Learning Services, Bond University (2009)
 

Innovative school-community learning in a digital world, The University of Southern Queensland's (USQ) Media Services (2008)

These nine sequential media files are portions of a film produced by The University of...

 

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Dis-abling attitudes and Prader-Willi Syndrome, Alberta Community Development Education Fund (2007)
 

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Episode 10: Introduction to adaptive technologies, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

Medium: Video.
Length: 14:44 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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A professional education...

 

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Episode 14: Disabling attitudes, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 18:32 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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A professional education...

 

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Episode 1: What it means to be blind, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 11:02 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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Episode 2: Universal design for learning: non-visual design, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 19:23 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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Episode 3: Approaches to solving design problems, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 13:50 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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Episode 4: Silver bullet wanted, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 6:33 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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Episode 5: Over-reliance on assistive technologies, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 8:17 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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Episode 6: Website accessibility, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 12:13 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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Episode 7: Yesterday's AT is today's mainstream technology, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 14:33 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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Episode 8: Braille literacy, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 6:37 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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Episode 9: Teaching diverse learners through technology, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2007)

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Length: 34.33 mins.
Date: Jan. 2007.

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Prader-Willi Syndrome through the lifespan (2007)
 

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Prader-Willi Syndrome: perspectives we share (2007)
 

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Episode 11: Accessible classrooms: Grade 1, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2006)

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Length: 16:34 mins.
Date: Jan. 2006.

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Episode 12: Accessible classrooms: Grade 5, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2006)

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Length: 12:41 mins.
Date: Jan. 2006.

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Episode 13: Accessible classrooms: Grade 8, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2006)

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Length: 12:46 mins.
Date: Jan. 2006.

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Episode 15: Getting to the centre of person centered planning (with Brittany Harker-Martin), Faculty of Education, University of Calgary (2004)

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Length: 10:30 mins.
Date: Nov. 2004.

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Part 1: Seven online learners (who are blind), A Research initiative of the Louisiana Center for the Blind and the Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness, Louisiana Tech University (2003)

Medium: Video.
Length: 24:22 mins.
Date: Jan. 2003.

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Part 2: Tips for interactive online learning, A Research initiative of the Louisiana Center for the Blind and the Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness, Louisiana Tech University (2003)

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Length: 37:46 mins.
Date: Jan. 2003.

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Part 3: Issues of online learning in a disability studies context, A Research initiative of the Louisiana Center for the Blind and the Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness, Louisiana Tech University (2003)

Medium: Video.
Length: 21:27 mins.
Date: Jan. 2003.

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Part 4: Interviews with the experts on online learning – Coombs & Banks, A Research initiative of the Louisiana Center for the Blind and the Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness, Louisiana Tech University (2003)

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Length: 27:15 mins.
Date: Jan. 2003.

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Australian College of Educators’ Excellence in Education Award (2009)