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John is a lecturer in curriculum and academic development with the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Centre at La Trobe University. He works collaboratively with academic staff on approaches to online and blended learning, with particular focus on flexible and online learning (FOLD) projects for the development of strategic and sustainable curriculum design. He has a background in broadcast media and developing online education resources. His teaching experience includes subjects in education, media studies, and electronic publishing, and is currently coordinator for EDU4HER: Applied Research in Higher Education: An Individual Project with Team Support.

John conducts research on the effects of networked technologies on practice. His PhD Reassembling Practice: A relational approach to online learning, investigates the transformative effects of networked technologies on sociality and learning in the context of technological change in Castells’ “network society”.

Qualifications

PhD La Trobe, MA (research) La Trobe, Grad Dip Film & TV Swinburne, BA Adelaide Uni.

Research interests:

• Human-technology relations, actor network theory, discourse analysis
• Intercultural communication in teaching and learning
• Online education in higher education

Awards

• Outstanding Paper Award, Ascilite 2008.
• Outstanding Paper Awards 2008, Emerald Group Publishing, in International Journal of Educational Management

Peer review:

• Executive Peer-Reviewer, Journal of Educational Technology & Society
• Academy of Management (AOM), Learning and Education
• Higher Education Research and Development (HERD)
• Ascilite Conference
• Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
• Asia-Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity
• PRism, a journal on Public Relations

Links to academic development resources:

• Effective online discussion (PDF 118 KB)
• SoLT Research Network
• Flexible learning good practice examples
• Online teaching and learning resources

Professional Associations

• ASCILITE, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education - http://www.ascilite.org.au/
• HERDSA - Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia - http://www.herdsa.org.au/
• ProPEL: An international research network for professional practice, education and learning at the University of Stirling, Scotland
• Educause

Selected Publications and Conference Presentations

• Hannon, J. (2012). Incommensurate practices: Sociomaterial entanglements of learning technology implementation, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, forthcoming.

• Hannon, J. (2012). The objects of e-learning: Rethinking implementation or not learning from the history of technology. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Networked Learning 2012, Edited by: Hodgson V, Jones C, de Laat M, McConnell D, Ryberg T & Sloep P. Maastricht, Netherlands, 2-4 April.

• Hannon, J., Hirst, D., & Riddle, M. (2011). Implementing e-learning: A migration story. In G.Williams, N. Brown, M. Pittard, B. Cleland (Eds.) Changing Demands, Changing Directions. Proceedings Ascilite Hobart 2011

• Hannon, J. (2011). Book Review: Introducing intercultural communication: Global cultures and contexts. PRism8 (1)
  Canale, R. & Hannon, J. (2011) Shifting to Moodle 2: A First Migration Story, Moodlemoot au 2011, Darling Harbour, Sydney, 18-20 July.
  

• Hannon, J. & Bretag, T. (2010). Negotiating contested discourses of learning technologies in higher education, Journal of Education, Technology and Society13 (1).

• Hannon, J. (2009). Disorienting spaces: Engaging the multiple “student” in online learning, Ascilite conference, Same places, different spaces, Auckland, New Zealand, December 6-9.

• Hannon, J. (2009). Breaking Down Online Teaching: Innovation and Resistance. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 25(1).
  

• Hannon, J. (2008) Doing Staff development: Dilemmas, Practices and Technologies, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 24 (1).
  

• 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: Sustainable Practice for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Netherlands: Springer.

• Hannon, J. and D’Netto, B. (2007). Cultural Diversity Online: Student Engagement with Learning Technologies, International Journal of Educational Management, 21 (5).

• Hannon, J. & D'Netto, B. (2007). Management Education Through Online Learning: Impact of Cultural Diversity Among Students, 2007 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 3-8, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• Hannon, J. (2003). Book Review, Screening the Past, Issue 15, 2 July.