About the public lecture
This presentation will discuss a variety of ways in which to engage students in online learning, providing ideas and tools that are useful to not only captivate your audience, but also provide the pedagogical benefits of using these resources. Tools will be outlined, stating their ease of use and how they could be used in the online learning environment. The future of using digital tools for learning will also be discussed, including thoughts of what the future may look like.
Professor Sue Gregory
Head: School of Education, University OF New England, Australia
About the speaker
Professor Sue Gregory is the Head of the School of Education, at the University of New England (UNE). Her role requires developing strategic initiatives and aligning resources that support the University and Faculty goals, and developing and maintaining linkages, internally and externally, including accreditation bodies, industry partners and community leaders. Previously, Sue has held positions of Chair of Research, Higher Degree Research Course Coordinator, a UNE Education Scholar and a lecturer in ICT Education. She also holds a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Sue has been the Leader of the eLearning, ePedagogy and Innovations Research Network Group in the school. As a long-term adult educator, she has taught pre-service and post-graduate education students how to incorporate technology into their teaching. Sue has applied her virtual world knowledge to expose her students, both on-campus and online, to the learning opportunities in virtual worlds, since 2007.
Sue has been involved in many national and university projects on creating and using learning spaces in virtual worlds and successful in receiving over $6m in funds (project lead on 19 out of 34). She has also received an OLT citation, an Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) and Australian College of Educators (ACE) awards. Since 2009, Sue has been the Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group, written over 200 publications on teaching and learning in virtual worlds and using ICT as a resource in online learning and teaching, including an Editor of five books on teaching and learning in virtual worlds (four as lead editor). Sue has presented her findings at more than 120 presentations or workshops domestically, internationally, in person and online. Sue is a Life Member of ASCILITE (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education) and has been on the Senior Executive committee since 2012.