ICT in Education - Staff Research Projects.

Research staff in the ICT in Education and Research – with the ICCR Cluster

Current projects

Mentoring as professional development for implementation of new education technologies (studying the implementation of interactive whiteboards in a Victorian secondary school).

Staff:
Dr. John Vincent, Dr. Tony Jones and Associate Professor Anne McDougall (Honorary).

A Hierarchy of Pedagogical Strategies: an analysis tool developed for this project

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Processes in multimodal text production.

Extension of doctoral thesis in which text production was matched with learning styles. Currently researching effective techniques for elucidating processes children use when working with both verbal and multimodal texts. Based in two Victorian primary schools.

Staff:
Dr. John Vincent and Associate Professor Anne McDougall (Honorary).


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Retirement, Mobility and the Internet

A research project to place Internet-linked computers in a retirement home in Melbourne, Australia to research the computer skills of the residents, provide informal training sessions about general computer and Internet use, investigate the most appropriate the types of training and help, and collect research on how the residents use the computers and the attitudes of the nursing and occupational staff towards the activity.

Staff:
Dr. John Murnane


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