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Choosing texts for today's students: do they understand language?

Kirkness, A; Neill, L (Learning and Teaching Support Network, 2009)

This study examines the language demands of a textbook chapter and a journal article from the course readings for first-year students in a hospitality degree. The classroom teacher and an academic developer compared the ...

Connecting the theory and practice of mobile learning: a framework for creative pedagogies using mobile social media

Cochrane, T; Antonczak, L (Edizioni Centro Studi Erickson S.p.a., 2015)

Designing creative learning environments supported by new technologies involves the development of new literacies for both teachers and learners. One way to do this is to frame teaching and learning around building authentic ...

“Context Matters”: The Challenges and Opportunities of Designing Tertiary Public and Environmental Health Education in South Auckland

Kersey, K; Lees, A; Conn, C; Cochrane, T; Narayan, V; Williams, M (School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies at AUT University., 2018)

This article outlines a study protocol, detailing the proposed methodology and findings of our preliminary literature review, for co-design of future NZ public and environmental health education for the South Auckland ...

A DBR Framework for Designing Mobile Virtual Reality Learning Environments

Cochrane, T; Cook, S; Aiello, S; Christie, D; Sinfield, D; Steagall, M; Aguayo, C (ASCILITE, 2017)

This paper proposes a Design Based Research framework for designing mobile virtual reality learning environments. The application of the framework is illustrated by two design-based research projects that aim to develop ...

Design Principles for Heutagogical Learning: Implementing Student-determined Learning With Mobile and Social Media Tools

Narayan, V; Herrington, J; Cochrane (ASCILITE, 2018)

Mobile and social media over the last decade has created significant shifts in society: how we communicate and collaborate, and in learning and teaching. This paper discusses a study that investigated how mobile social ...

Designing an Authentic Professional Development cMOOC

Cochrane, T; Narayan, V; Burcio-Martin, V; Lees, A; Diesfeld, K (Ascilite, 2015)

While there has been a lot of hype surrounding the potential of MOOCs to transform access to education, the reality of completion rates and participant profiles has tempered this hype such that within the hype cycle MOOCs ...

Designing creative learning environments

Cochrane, T; Antonczak, L (Springer, 2015)

Designing creative learning environments involves not only facilitating student creativity, but also modeling creative pedagogical practice. In this paper we explore the implementation of a framework for designing creative ...

Designing Virtual Reality Environments for Paramedic Education: MESH360

Cochrane, T; Cook, S; Aiello, S; Harrison, D; Aguayo, C (Ascilite, 2016)

This paper outlines the first two stages of a design-based research project that aims to develop more authentic critical care educational simulation experiences and learner-centred pedagogies in paramedicine education. The ...

Editorial for RLT special issue on mobile mixed reality

Cochrane, T; Smart, F; Narayan, V (Association for Learning Technology, 2018)

This special collection of Research In Learning Technology explores the state of the art of mobile mixed reality (MMR) in education. The special collection includes eight articles that cover; a systematic review of MMR in ...

EDR and Design Thinking: Enabling Creative Pedagogies

Cochrane, T; Munn, J (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2016)

This paper explores the interrelationship between educational design research, design thinking that guides the design process, and the unique opportunities that mobile learning enables. As an example we outline the design ...

Evaluating a ProfessionalDevelopment cMOOC: MOSOMELT

Cochrane, T; Narayan, V (Ascilite, 2016)

This paper focuses upon the evaluation stages of the design and implementation of a lecturer professional development cMOOC embedded within an educational design-based research methodology. In the design and development ...

A Framework for Designing Collaborative Learning Environments Using Mobile AR

Cochrane, T; Narayan, V; Antonczak, L (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2016)

Smartphones provide a powerful platform for augmented reality (AR). Using a smartphone’s camera together with the built in GPS, compass, gyroscope, and touch screen enables the real world environment to be overlaid with ...

Graphic design and 21st century bookworks: implementing multimodal strategies to include e-pub and interactive pdf formats to complement traditional book formats

Kaiser, L; Cochrane, T; Spooner, H; Karmokar, S; Austin,, L; Garden, E; Potter, E; Young, A; Wilczynska, K (Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), 2013)

The overall goal of this project was to introduce multimodal approaches to meet the need for increased digital literacy and to integrate new technology into tertiary graphic design courses at AUT University. Traditionally ...