About+the+project+team

=About the Project Team=

The project team comprised Kathleen Gray, Jenny Waycott and Celia Thompson from the University of Melbourne; Rosemary Clerehan and Judy Sheard from Monash University; and Margaret Hamilton and Joan Richardson from RMIT University. Each project team member has provided a brief introduction about their interests in this research, and links to their related work, in the blurbs below:

Kathleen Gray:
//I got interested in the web through ideas about the global brain, collective intelligence, the internet as a next stage in how human society works....Wikipedia will give you the overview of course// //@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence//

//This project had its origins in a project I did in 2005-6 called "Acknowledgement: Originality and Plagiarism Resources for Academic Staff Development". Questions that academics found it hard to answer about their own practices in conventional forms of academic writing became even trickier when they were asked to think about social web forms of "authorship".//

//What this project has meant to me...// //Initiating and learning from a broad discussion of some issues crucial to the future of academic authorship// //Meeting academics from all sorts of disciplines and institutions to listen to their stories and share their concerns// //Bringing the scholarship of teaching to life through a sustaining and productive collegial experience over five years//

//More about my academic and professional activities.... www.bmu.unimelb.edu.au/staff/kg///

Jenny Waycott:
//I have been an educational technology researcher for several years. I have been working on the Web 2.0 assessment projectas project manager and researcher. My interests in this project focus on understanding how Web 2.0 learning activities change work and learning practices. That is, what do lecturers need to do differently when assessing students' learning in this way? And what impact do Web 2.0 learning activities have on student writing, engagement, and communication?//

//Previously I worked on another ALTC-funded project, "[|Educating the Net Generation]", which examined how university students used social and everyday technologies, and what implications this could have for university education.//

//My interest in this area of research has developed from earlier work, particularly my [|PhD research], which used an activity theory analysis to examine how users appropriate mobile technologies to support their learning and workplace activities and how, in turn, new technologies shape users' activities.//

//More information about my research experience and publications can be found [|here].//

Celia Thompson:
//My interest in this project came about as a result of Rosemary Clerehan suggesting to Kathleen Gray (our Project Team Leader) that she get in touch with me because of my research into plagiarism, intertextuality and authorship. Kathleen then introduced me to Judithe Sheard, Margaret Hamilton and Joan Richardson and we started to meet regularly as a group. We discovered we shared pedagogical interests in plagiarism, academic integrity, academic literacy, assessment and social web technologies. We decided that we should attempt to chanel our interests and areas of professional experience and searched for a framework that would allow us to work effectively and productively as a group. This ALTC project, which enabled us to employ Jenny Waycott as our Project Manager, is the result of this ongoing collaboration.//

//I think my main contribution to the project has been my interest and publications on issues relating to academic authorship and textual ownership, which I hope have helped to provide a useful theoretical perspective to our discussions and work. This has been especially relevant in view of the shift from individual to group authorship and ownership that the interactive, collaborative and distributed features of social web technologies have facilitated.//

//I have felt very excited about being a part of this project because I think that it has helped to push my thinking forward about the interrelationships between teaching, learning, assessment, multi-authored texts and emerging educational technologies. I also know that it has had a major impact on my own teaching and scholarly practices. I now feel better equipped in my struggles to integrate new technologies into my own teaching and feel very fortunate to have been able to participate in such a valuable form of professional development.//

//You can see more about my teaching and scholarly activities by visitng: @http://www.languages.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/thompson.html//

Rosemary Clerehan:
//What have I contributed to the project? As befits a project on web 2.0, it has been a team effort and I feel there is little I have done alone! I have helped develop the survey and the good practice guidelines, helped assemble the committee memberships, conducted three of the pilot projects, worked on papers for publication, presented at a symposium and kept my university informed of developments for possible future implementation.// //The innovative nature of the project is quite striking, I think. It represents a 'green-field site' intellectually in teaching and learning which is exciting, and it provides the opportunity to build on literature in web 2.0, assessment, and theoretical approaches such as Activity Theory. It has also enabled a close-up look at what is going on in univerites now, from a staff and to an extent, student perspective. It would be rewarding to explore the latter further.//

//The project is linked in my mind to previous projects I have led (and written about), developing online learning resources for students// //[]// //The foucs in these resources was the traditional assignment. But what do students need to know about assignment production in web 2.0? What expectations and knowlege do staff have? What can we do to support staff and thereby work to improve learning, teaching and - as our focal point - assessment, using these new forms? And how might we theorise the activities which take place in these new environments?//

//So, there are links between practice, theory and my own interest in student writing and learning, and how these are evolving in the early years of our century.//

//My day job is Director of International Postgraduate Academic Support in the Monash Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and I have a small resource kit for students, and a list of my publications here:// //[]//

Judy Sheard:


//I am a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. I teach programming and interface design.//

//This project sits within my core research interests, which are the use of educational technology and student learning behaviour. I have been involved in a number of research studies which have investigated the use of educational technology from the teacher and student perspectives, student engagement and student learning behaviour in particular cheating and plagiarism practices.//

//This project has given me insights into how academics go about the process of designing and implemeting tasks for assessment and the innovative ways Web 2.0 technologies can be used.//

//I am a member of a community of academics interested in computing education research.// //A list of my teaching, research and community activities is available at: [|http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jsheard/]//

Margaret Hamilton:
//RMIT has contributed six of the case studies in this project and I've worked closely with four of these, and have been humbled by the lecturers' hard work and dedication to their students.//

//I have been interested in new technologies and how practitioners actually apply them, as opposed to their design purposes.// //Meeting with technology innovators and discussing all these various new assessment forms has answered a lot of questions for me, but opened up many further new possibilities.//

//For many years I have been working in the area of academic integrity, particularly as it affects computer science students and their referencing for code re-use. Working with this team on this project has enlightened my approach to assessment and filled in a lot of questions about authorship and ownership of text.//

//More information about my research can be found here: www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~mh.//