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Higher Education Research

HEDC is one of the top ranked education research departments in New Zealand and has been engaged in the study of Higher Education for 31 years. Our field focuses on tertiary education and our research in this area aims to contribute to knowledge and improve the quality of educational experiences through systematic inquiry into national systems, policy, philosophy, management, teaching, learning and curriculum.

Lecturers

Dr Carol Bond
Students' experiences, teachers' experiences, beliefs about teaching and learning, postgraduate experiences

Dr Nell Buissink-Smith
Postgraduate communities and support; peer learning; postgraduate retention

Russell Butson
Virtual Collaborative Environments; ePortfolios; eResearch; Student Journals

Associate Professor Tony Harland
Critical thinking, Inquiry, Values, Academic work

Jenny McDonald
Natural language intelligent tutoring systems, technology adoption in universities

Professor Kerry Shephard
Education for sustainability; Graduate attributes; Academic development

Associate Professor Rachel Spronken-Smith
Inquiry, PBL, Teaching-research nexus, Student experience, Gender in academia

Dr Sarah Stein
Teaching, learning, curriculum; Teacher professional development

Dr Jacques van der Meer
First-year experience; Peer-learning; Student engagement; leadership; Retention

Senior Teaching Fellow

Rob Wass
Vygotsky, Critical thinking, Social Constructivism

Research Support

Lynley Deaker
Education for sustainability, Evaluation, Constructivism, Plagiarism

Swee Kin Loke
Digital game-based learning, Socio-cultural learning approaches

 
 
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HEDC Journal Club Meeting 2010
Central Library
Committe Room 1

The HEDC Journal Club will meet March 24th at 12 p.m until 12.50 p.m in Committee Room 1, Central Library.

The article to read is:

Boshier, R., Why is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning such a hard sell? (2009). Higher Education Research and Development, Vol.28 (1), p.1. The link to this journal article is here:
rb6fc7tv6s.scholar.serialssolutions.com/

Associate Professor Tony Harland will lead the discussion.