Global Utilities

La Trobe University
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Centre

SoLT publications by La Trobe staff

Many staff at La Trobe have published research on teaching, learning and curriculum.

Assessment

  • Ducasse, A. & Brown, A. (2009). Assessing paired orals: Raters’ orientation to interaction. Language Testing, 26(3) 423-443.
  • Endacott, R., Gray, M. A., Jasper, M. A., McMullan, M., Miller, C., Scholes, J. & Webb, C. (2004) Using portfolios in the assessment of learning and competence: The impact of four models. Nurse Education in Practice, 4, 250-257.

Curriculum, teaching and learning

  • Fisher T; Gutman J and Martens E. (2007). Why teach ADR to law students? Part 2: an empirical survey. Legal Education Review, 17(1), 67-101.
  • Gutman, J., Fisher, T., & Martens, E. (2006). Why teach alternative dispute resolution to law students? [series of parts]" Part 1: Past and current practices and some unanswered questions. Legal Education Review, 16(1-2), 125-151.
  • Gutman, J., Fisher, T., & Martens, E. (2008). Teaching ADR to Australian Law Students: implications for legal practice in Australia. Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, 19(1), 42-48 .
  • James, E. L., Graham, M. L., Snow, P. C. & Ward, B. M. (2006) Teaching research and epidemiology to undergraduate students in the health sciences. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 30, 575-578.
  • Johnson, E., Herd, S., Andrewartha, K., Jones, S. & Malcolm, S. (2002) Introducing problem-based learning into a traditional lecture course. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 30, 121-124.
  • Knewstubb, B. & Bond, C. (2009) What's he talking about? The communicative alignment between a teacher's intentions and students' understandings. Higher Education Research and Development, 28(2), 179-193
  • Lee, G. & Fitzgerald, L. (2008). A clinical internship model for the Nurse Practitioner programme. Nurse Education in Practice 8(6), pp397-404.
  • Leveson, L. (2006). Environmental Influences On Teaching And Learning In The Context Of University Business Education. Global Business and Economics Anthology, 1, 535-542.
  • Leveson, L. (2004). Encouraging better learning through better teaching: a study of approaches to teaching in accounting. Accounting Education,13(4), 1-20.
  • McAlpine, I., Pannan, L., & Fitzmaurice, K. (2008). Steps towards using an enquiry-based blended learning design for curriculum change in Health Sciences. In Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology? Proceedings ASCILITE Melbourne.
  • Wong, P., Fitzgerald, L. & Hannon, J. (2009). University Clinician Partnerships: Developing An Online “Core” Unit To Teach Complex Multiple Specialty Clinical Nursing Skills, Shanghai International Nurses Conference, Nov 17-20, Shanghai, China.
  • Zion, L. (2010). (Up)start from scratch. Scholastic Source, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Education studies

  • Gough, N. (2008). Ecology, ecocriticism and learning: how do places become 'pedagogical'? Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 5(1), 71-86.
  • Gough, N. (2008). Narrative experiments and imaginative inquiry. South African Journal of Education, 28(3), 335-349
  • Rochford, F. (2008) The contested product of a university education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 30, 41-52.

Flexible and e-learning

  • Farmer, B., Yue, A. & Brooks, C. (2008). Using blogging for higher order learning in large cohort university teaching: A case study. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 24(2), 123-136.
  • Hannon, J. (2009). Breaking Down Online Teaching: Innovation and Resistance. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 25(1), 14-29.
  • Hannon, J. & Bretag, T. (2010). Negotiating contested discourses of learning technologies in higher education. Journal of Education, Technology and Society, 13(1), 106-120.
  • Bretag, T. & Hannon, J. (2009). Online close and personal: Developing a community of inquiry using computer mediated communication. In Meeri Hellsten and Anna Reid (Eds). Researching International Pedagogies for Teaching and Learning, Netherlands: Springer.
  • Conole, G., Brown, R., Papaefthimiou, M., Alberts, P., and Howell, C. (2009). Fostering connectivity and collaboration – the approach adopted by Cluster C of the HEA e-learning pathfinder projects. In Ulf-Daniel Ehlers and Dirk Schneckenberg (Eds.), Changing Cultures in Higher Education – Moving Ahead to Future Learning. A Handbook for Strategic Change. Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Hirst, D. & Brooks, C. (2008). Conflicting landscapes: Musing on the implementation of an open source collaboration environment. In Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology? Proceedings ASCILITE Melbourne.
  • Hirst, D., Brooks, C. & Riddle, M. (2004). Courseware Design and Development Program: Providing professional development and project experience. In R. Atkinson, C. McBeath, D. Jonas-Dwyer & R. Phillips (Eds.), Beyond the comfort zone: Proceedings of the 21st ASCILITE Conference (pp. 387-394). Perth, 5-8 December.
  • Howell, C., and Arnold, M. (2008). Night Shifts: Some Situated Dimensions of Student Technology Use. In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human interaction: Designing For Habitus and Habitat (Cairns, Australia, December 08 – 12, OZCHI ‘08, Vol. 287. ACM, New York, NY, 315-318.
  • Leaton Gray, S., Howell, C., and Franklin, C.D. (2007). Post-impact evaluation of an e-learning cross-infection control CD-ROM provided to all general dental practitioners in England. British Dental Journal. 203, E20 - E20.
  • Riddle, M. (2009). The Campaign: a case study in identity construction through performance, ALT-J, 17(1), 63-72.

Graduate capabilities

  • Brooks, C. & Ellis, J. (2005). Fidelity to Scholarly Practice: Academic Honesty and Information Literacy in the Faculty of Arts”. In H. Goss (Ed.), Balance, fidelity, mobility: Maintaining the Momentum? Proceedings of the 22nd ASCILITE conference (pp. 95-104). Brisbane: Teaching and Learning Support Services, Queensland University of Technology
  • Fitzgerald, L & Koch, B. (2008). Getting the most out of the library. In Borbasi, S., Jackson, D., & Langford, R. (Eds.) Navigating the maze of nursing research (2nd Ed). (pp. 29-46). Sydney: Mosby.

Student experience

  • Carmichael, P., Riddle, M., Arnold, M., Howell, C., Tracey, F., Rafal, J., and Rivers, R. (2008). A Day in the Life of a Student. Proc. ED-MEDIA 2008. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
  • Cleak, H. & Williamson, D. (2007) Preparing health science students for interdisciplinary professional practice. Journal of Allied Health, 36, 141-149.
  • Cope, C. & Staehr, L. (2005) Improving students' learning approaches through intervention in an information systems learning environment. Studies in Higher Education, 30, 181-197.
  • Howell, C. (2007). Conceptualizing Participation: Personal Development Planning for Undergraduate Students in UK Higher Education. SIG 9, Phenomenography and Variation Theory. EARLI 2007. Budapest, Hungary.
  • Meehan-Andrews, T. A. (2009). Teaching mode efficiency and learning preferences of first year nursing students. Nurse Education Today, 29, 24-32.
  • Noone M.A., Dickson J. & Curran E. (2005). Pushing the Boundaries or Preserving the Status Quo? Designing Clinical Programs to Teach Law Students a Deep Understanding of Ethical Practice' 8 International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 104.
  • Riddle, M., Arnold, M., and Howell, C. (2007). Devices, demands, and desires: tracing technology use in the daily life of Cambridge students, Short Paper, ALT-C 2007 Conference, Nottingham, UK, September.
  • Riddle, M., and Howell, C. (2008). You are here: Students map their own ICT landscapes.” In Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology? Proceedings ASCILITE Melbourne.

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