Irena WhiteFlinders University · College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
Irena White
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
For the past 20 years Irena White's career has spanned a diverse range of development, delivery and marketing roles in vocational and higher education that have focused on providing professional learning support to educators and trainers in the use of flexible online learning methods and strategies. These roles include large scale project management and educational design of online learning resources, the development of online learning communities and the organisation of national conferences.
Education
March 2014 - August 2018
Field of study
- Diffusion and sustainability of elearning innovations in higher education teaching practice
Publications
Publications (3)
This PhD study investigates how universities can build institutional capacity for mainstreaming e-learning innovations in university teaching practice and maximise the adoption of transformational new methods of teaching and learning. The study focusses on digital technology-enabled learning, known as e-learning, innovations that originate in highe...
This study examines the adoption of digital technologies in higher education teaching practice, commonly known as elearning, and investigates what needs to change in universities to support the wider adoption of faculty-originated elearning innovations. These are innovations originated by education technology enthusiasts and visionaries in universi...
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A PhD candidate in the School of Education at the Flinders University of South Australia is seeking volunteer participants for an interview in which a computer simulation will be used to examine the problem of sustaining the diffusion of proven elearning innovations that originate in university faculties. Participants are sought from university management, support and teaching staff who have been involved in supporting, developing or adopting proven new ways of teaching and learning with digital technologies during the past three years. This study is the first examination of technology adoption processes in higher education teaching practice to use a computer simulation to model connections between the roles of management, support services and teaching staff from a university system perspective. If you are selected for this study, your interview will last between 60 to 90 minutes and can be conducted either face-to-face or online. Interviews will be held during December 2016 and January/February 2017. To express an interest in this research and for more details about becoming involved as an interview participant please complete this short confidential survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NXF79V5.
I am interested in the processes of diffusion and sustainability of innovations and finding the connections between actions that enable and inhibit further adoption beyond the first wave of early adopters of proven elearning innovations in universities?
