Petrea Redmond- PHD
- Professor at University of Southern Queensland
Petrea Redmond
- PHD
- Professor at University of Southern Queensland
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Introduction
I am a Professor in digital pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
My research interests include: Using technology to keep sick kids connected to school; Females and ICTs; Critical thinking; Blended and online learning and teaching; technology integration at the school and higher education sectors; Online Mentoring; MakerSpaces; 1-1 Computing; Community of Inquiry; Cognitive presence and Teaching Presence.
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This study examines technology integration in teacher education programs across multiple countries, focusing on pre-service teachers' self-efficacy, attitudes, and experiences with technology integration. Data from 791 participants were collected using validated instruments such as the Technology Proficiency Survey for Educators, Stages of Adoption...
With more higher education courses being offered online, the design of the learning environment is an essential component of the educational experience. However, not all online learning environments facilitate student engagement. This paper describes the redesign of two online Initial Teacher Education courses in a regional university, using the On...
Despite the widely recognised impact of both digital and physical spaces as active contributors to teaching and learning processes, relatively little is known about the learning environment. Furthermore, it is time to explore the interplay between these two spaces. Therefore, we proposed employing a holistic approach to develop a new conceptual mod...
The Australian Universities Accord’s (Department of Education, 2024) focus on expanding underrepresented groups’ access to higher education underscores an on-campus-online paradigm shift, or post-pandemic digital transformation, to address students’ flexibility and accessibility needs. The shift identifies that online student engagement, and studen...
Making sense of student feedback and engagement is important for informing pedagogical decision-making and broader strategies related to student retention and success in higher education courses. Although learning analytics and other strategies are employed within courses to understand student engagement, the interpretation of data for larger data...
Digital technology literacy, attitude, efficacy, and online engagement are important for effective teaching in a contemporary world. This study examines the connections between pre-service teachers' (PST) self-assessed digital technology literacy, attitudes, self-efficacy, and engagement in online learning. It also explores how these aspects relate...
New teaching and learning approaches are emerging through the use of technology including online global collaboration. Educators involved in global collaboration forge external relationships with others beyond their immediate learning environment. They modify and adapt the curriculum to include global learning opportunities for their learners. Glob...
Australia aims to improve teacher capacity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education in primary school classrooms. For primary school teachers, such an endeavor requires an integrated approach when planning STEM activities. With a designated STEM curriculum, teachers could more effectively plan activities that integrate S...
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A resurgence in teaching coding in primary school classrooms has led to a pedagogical swing towards using physical computing and coding to develop students' use of algorithms, computational thinking, and problem‐solving skills. Two obstacles impede the optimal development of these objectives: the availability of a suitable pedagogy and a...
This study utilised students' online engagement, digital technology attitude, digital literacy, and self-efficacy theories to develop and test a model connecting these factors within a regional university in Australia. A field survey collected data from 110 first-year students. AMOS 28 was employed for measurement and structural model path analysis...
We explored the future of learning environments through theories, empirical evidence, good practices, and experiences during the great online
transition (GOT) (Howard et al., 2022), to inform this evolving space. From this exploration, the aim of the group was to generate design principles for the field and implementation of integrated digital and...
Ensuring quality education for all students requires teachers to possess knowledge and skills in utilising digital technologies effectively for teaching and learning. This study explored how pre-service teachers (PSTs) perceive their digital attitude, efficacy, literacy, engagement, and understanding of digital technologies in an online learning en...
As life becomes more dependent on digital technologies, there is a worldwide shift toward including digital technologies content, including computational thinking and other computer science elements, in primary school curricula. The introduction of new curricular content presents challenges for the preparation of teachers required to implement it....
This paper reports on research that extends knowledge about higher education students’ perceptions of online engagement. In particular, the study aimed to identify what students thought engagement was and how they experienced it. Understanding students’ views about online engagement will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the topic and s...
This article reports on an exploratory case study that applied the Community of Inquiry framework in the K-12 Philippine setting, where there are limited studies on blended learning interactions and experiences. The study examined blended learning interactions across three schools in the Philippine K-12 system to investigate the following: (1) what...
Student engagement is recognised as being a critical factor linked to student success and learning outcomes. The same holds true for online learning and engagement in higher education, where the appetite for this mode of learning has escalated worldwide over several decades, and as a result of COVID-19. At the same time teachers in higher education...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-growing area of study that stretching its presence to many business and research domains. Machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP) are subsets of AI to tackle different areas of data processing and modelling. This review article presents an overview of AI impact on education outli...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that online teaching in higher education became the default. Educators were, and often now continue to be, required to pivot to online teaching, necessitating them to adapt their teaching delivery, effectively engage students online, and apply existing skills to new and unfamiliar pedagogical contexts. This...
Driven by the increased availability of Learning Management System data, this study explored its value and sought understanding of student behaviour through the information contained in activity level log data. Specifically, this study examined analytics data to understand students’ engagement with online videos. Learning analytics data from the Mo...
Educators who are collaborating globally identify the potential for student-to-student global interactions leading to deeper understanding of how the world works. This qualitative study explored the phenomenon of online global collaboration through interviews with geographically dispersed K-12 educators. The aim was to understand better online glob...
Digital technology has been firmly engrained within the Australian Curriculum for some years now. The recent review of the curriculum has given even greater emphasis to digital technologies as an integral component for teaching content, developing 21st Century skills and citizenship across all curriculum areas. Hence, the question of whether studen...
Digital technology has been firmly engrained within the Australian Curriculum for some years now. The recent review of the curriculum has given even greater emphasis to digital technologies as an integral component for teaching content, developing 21st Century skills and citizenship across all curriculum areas. Hence, the question of whether studen...
Through an exploratory case study, this research sought to determine the applicability of the Community of Inquiry in the K–12 setting. There are research gaps to leverage support for blended learning and flexible learning options to benefit Filipino youth and school-leavers under the Alternative Delivery Mode of the Philippine K–12 system. This st...
Combining nudge theory with learning analytics, ‘nudge analytics’, is a relatively recent phenomenon in the educational context. Used, for example, to address such issues as concerns with student (dis)engagement, nudging students to take certain action or to change a behaviour towards active learning, can make a difference. However, knowing who to...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-growing area of study that stretching its presence to many business and research domains. Machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP) are subsets of AI to tackle different areas of data processing and modelling. This review article presents an overview of AI’s impact on education out...
A makerspace is a place where people create artifacts while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge. In so doing, makers develop a range of knowledge and skills, such as creativity, problem-solving, collaboration, and self-regulation, to help them achieve their goals. These skills are broadly touted as key for learning and transferable across disci...
Design thinking can be broadly defined as a set of creative skills to understand and problem-solve ambiguous and complex problems, and a practice that places humans at the heart of the design process. Such collaborative ways of design thinking and design-doing are much needed to address twenty-first century challenges such as climate change. Design...
Technology has significantly impacted our work and leisure spaces, but education is still working to build a bridge between the technological knowledge and skills required for living now and preparing students for their future. Although a reduction in the cost of technology has led to increased access and connectivity within schools, where teachers...
Globally, technology is now a vital element of the school curriculum. Technology has changed the way children learn, and when teachers integrate technology into pedagogical practices, resources, and assessment it expands the way teachers teach. This paper explores how initial teacher education (ITE) programs across Australia position the Technologi...
Low levels of online student engagement impact negatively on student success and adversely affect attrition. Course learning analytics data (CLAD), combined with nudging initiatives, have emerged as strategies for engaging online students. This paper presents a mixed method case study involving a staged intervention strategy focussing on the employ...
Extensive literature within the learning sciences addresses the phenomenon of online engagement and strategies that support online learning. However, for academics, there is limited guidance to support them in the processes of reflecting on efforts to facilitate online learner engagement and, ultimately, to use those reflections to redesign approac...
In everyday classroom situations, teacher decisions are influenced by cognitive load and affect. Cognitive demands related to decision-making by teachers, and associated affect, influence future decisions, providing a juncture to change potential outcomes. Eight Australian Secondary teachers were selected for this qualitative study based on the var...
The affordance of online communication and collaboration technology provides a forum for preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and teacher educators to engage in authentic discourse where multiple perspectives can be shared. This qualitative case study explores the perceptions and experiences of embedded experts in a global learning community t...
Student engagement is consistently identified as a key predictor of learner outcomes within the online learning environment. However, there is limited guidance about using proactive strategies to improve engagement for low and non-engaged students: for example by specifically employing course learning analytics (CLA) and nudging strategies in cours...
Due to increasing demands in the amount of content to be learned within a medical and health sciences curriculum, there are benefits towards exploring options for new and effective delivery modes. Augmented reality technology has the potential to enhance learning in physiology and anatomy, where students require a three‐dimensional knowledge of hum...
The availability of ICT job opportunities within New Zealand is continuing to grow year on year. However, there has been a decrease in the proportion of females, especially Māori and Pacifica, entering into ICT study and pursuing ICT careers. This paper explores factors that discourage participation of Māori and Pacifica high school females in ICT....
In this paper we explore and challenge the trajectory of research scholarship in the area of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK). In doing so we adopt the position, as elaborated in Harris et al.’s (2017) editorial, that TPACK research is in need of addressing two key questions: What do teachers need to know in order to integra...
Makerspaces are locations where people with common interests can work on projects, share ideas, tools and expertise to make or create. There is an abundance of “how to” guides and research studies on physical makerspaces, little research focuses on describing the virtual making processes and the experiences therein. This qualitative study explores...
Over the last decade the deployment and use of learning analytics has become routine in many universities around the world. The ability to analyse the way students interact with technology has demonstrated significant value for providing insights into student learning and there are now a wide range of uses for learning analytics in education. From...
The bibliometric data in this editorial provide readers with information about the journal’s publication, review and article access statistics, the articles attracting the most interest over the past year and the citation performance of the journal.
In today's technologically enhanced and changing world, incidents of cyberbullying are increasing and it is a reality that impacts children and adults. Educators need to be able to identify cyberbullying, implement effective management strategies that align with school policies, as well as engage in pro-active programming for prevention. This artic...
There has been a noticeable rise in the use of, and research into, educational videos in tertiary education in the past decade. This is due in no small part to the reduction of expensive barriers to their production and storage, and an increase in access to streaming services that make videos playable anywhere, anytime. Research into educational vi...
Universities increasingly implement online delivery to strengthen students’ access and flexibility. However, they often do so with limited understanding of the impact of online pedagogy on student engagement. To explore these issues, a research project was conducted investigating the use of course-specific learning analytics to ‘nudge’ students int...
The Australian Educational Technologies Trends (AETT) report provides an overview to assist teachers, school leaders, academics and industry, in understanding and planning for the use of digital technologies in Australian schools over the next five years - 2019 to 2023. The report explores four research categories: 1. Educational technologies that...
Cross-cultural, multicultural, intercultural, and transcultural perspectives and practices in higher education contexts vary significantly, comparable to the blurring and often obscure definitions and interpretations applied to internationalisation terminology. In this article, academics from two Schools of Education in Canada and Australia aim to...
In this editorial we present the bibliometric data and explain the new Creative Commons license being adopted from Volume 36. The bibliometrics include the journal’s publication, review and article access statistics, the articles attracting the most interest over the past year and the citation performance of the journal.
An e-mentoring program was established to support females who were studying or intending to study or work in Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths related disciplines (STEM) and were located in regional, rural or remote areas. Mentors and mentees were matched based on their shared interests, fields of study and area of employment. The mentoring...
Cross-cultural, multicultural, intercultural, and transcultural perspectives and practices in higher education contexts vary significantly, comparable to the blurring and often obscure definitions and interpretations applied to internationalisation terminology. In this article, academics from two Schools of Education in Canada and Australia aim to...
Educational technology research, like all education research, is dominated by explicit or implicit claims of causation. The dominance of cause-effect models in research is not surprising, and for many it is unnoticed and unquestioned. However, regardless of the cause-effect model being applied or the methodology in measuring it, we are unable to de...
The ubiquitous nature of technology in the world has not yet translated into the ubiquitous use of technology to transform learning and teaching. Teachers lack the confidence and competence to integrate technology across a broad range of tools within a range of contexts. Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) has become a common framew...
While carrying ‘Australasia’ in its name, our journal aims to achieve a strong global presence in the English-speaking world. In this editorial we examine data collected by our journal management software OJS to ascertain the outreach of AJET beyond its Australasian borders. We look at data concerning AJET’s readership, submissions, authors, and re...
This paper explore some of the factors that discourage the participation of Māori and Pacific girls in ICT in New Zealand. Despite many ICT job opportunities, there has been a steady decrease in the percentage of girls, especial Māori and Pacific girls entering into ICT study, and pursuing ICT careers. This study used a modified version of the conc...
Meaningful integration of digital technology into learning and teaching is ill-structured, complex, and messy. Inherent in the complexity is the interaction between the different domains of teacher knowledge. The multifaceted problem is further compounded by the diversity of learners and technology in today's dynamic classroom contexts. Pre-service...
This guest editorial explores the potential impact of alternative metrics and social research networks to enhance Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) research and practice, particularly in the realm of open scholarship. Conventional measures of research impact are based upon a publications’ impact factor. Article or author-level metrics can provide...
As our first issue for 2018 it is timely to provide some bibliometrics on the recent performance of the journal. The bibliometric data in this editorial provide readers with information about the journal’s publication, review and article access statistics, the articles attracting the most interest over the past year and the citation performance of...
Within the higher education context, capstone units can be viewed as a significant means of assuring intended learning outcomes for programmes. They provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and apply prior and new disciplinary learning, as well as employability skills and graduate attributes. This paper describes the first stage of an i...
Student engagement is understood to be an important benchmark and indicator of the quality of the student experience for higher education; yet the term engagement continues to be elusive to define and it is interpreted in different ways in the literature. This paper firstly presents a short review of the literature regarding online engagement in th...
New teaching and learning approaches are emerging through the use of technology including online global collaboration. Educators involved in global collaboration forge external relationships with others beyond their immediate learning environment. They modify and adapt the curriculum to include global learning opportunities for their learners. Glob...
For over a decade practitioners and researchers have been concerned about cyberbullying within educational contexts. Few tools exist to explore this complex phenomenon in-depth from a teacher or pre-service teacher perspective. Importantly, pre-service teacher perceptions of cyberbullying may have a significant impact on how pre-service teachers re...
AJET is the premier journal in Australasia which publishes manuscripts related to technology enhanced learning and teaching in post-secondary education settings. As a result the journal recieves a large number of submissions of which only 30% actually get sent to review. This editorial explains common and ultimately avoidable issues that result in...
This editorial reflects on some of the challenges of journal publishing in a context of increasing time pressures and accountability measures in academia. A particular focus is that of the demands on reviewers and the challenges of recognising their contributions. This editorial also introduces the eleven diverse papers that consitute the issue. Fi...
This paper presents data obtained from focus groups conducted to investigate male students’ experiences in higher education in the United Arab Emirates. Among the issues discussed by students was the impact of social networks addiction on student motivation and this paper focuses on that issue. Thirteen focus groups were conducted with 83 English a...
Legal education is in a period of rapid development driven by changing industry demands and developing technologies. This paper will describe an innovative pilot study which utilises new technologies to provide an alternative mode of teaching and learning to meet growing industry demands for graduates who are technologically savvy and have strong c...
The quality of vocation education and training (VET) teaching in Australia has long been contested. Six Australian universities jointly conducted an online survey exploring the experiences of practitioners who were undertaking undergraduate studies in VET. This paper explores the experiences of VET practitioners as students in one regional universi...
Research supervision is an important learning and teaching issue in Higher Education Institutions. This paper reports on the history and outcomes of a community of practice that has been meeting since 2009 to improve the capability of research supervisors at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Australia. The Community of Practice—Research S...
Issues of gender imbalance in leadership have long been a significant issue in universities, as is the case across most industries. This paper explores the experiences of seven females who have successfully achieved senior leadership positions at a regional university in Australia. While the experiences of these women differ in many ways, there are...
This paper presents data obtained from focus groups conducted to investigate male students' experience of higher education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Among the issues discussed by students was the impact of social networks addiction on student motivation and this paper focuses on that issue. Thirteen focus groups were conducted with 83 EFL...
This paper presents data obtained from focus groups conducted to investigate male students’ experience of higher
education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Among the issues discussed by students was the impact of using iPads in
replacement of printed books and this paper focuses on that issue. Thirteen focus groups were conducted with 83 EFL male...
This Research in progress presents a gap in the current literature and a project which will
explore the adaptation of undergraduate students to blended learning environments within
tertiary education in the UAE. Blended learning environments are becoming increasingly
common in global higher education and this trend has spread to the UAE. This study...
This paper describes an online mentoring project which involved building online mentoring learning communities to support secondary pre-service teachers, and to provide them with the opportunity to interact and engage in professional learning dialogue with teaching professionals in their teaching disciplines. The practicing teachers took on the rol...
Educational practice is centrally concerned with the quality and impact of teaching and learning designs and techniques. Developing practice in ways that enhance and increase that quality and impact is the mission of educational practitioners and researchers alike. This kind of educational development is predicated on understanding the multiple con...
Contemporary educational issues are abundant and diverse. These issues include claims and counter-claims, debates and questions about matters ranging from national curricula (Oates, 2011; Tani, 2011) and standardised assessment of students’ learning (Au, 2009; Richards, Vining, & Weimer, 2010) to parental involvement in school governance (Addi-Racc...
Within Australia and in many other nations, there is a mandate for teachers to embed Indigenous perspectives in the teaching of all curriculum areas. Indigenous populations have deep, rich and diverse traditional knowledge and ways of working linked to their identities and communities. In the past, the Queensland curriculum required Indigenous pers...
As the number of blended and online courses rapidly increases, it is essential that we have an understanding of the roles and activities that make up the work of an online instructor. The move towards web-enhanced or online learning offers not only new opportunities, but also new challenges for both instructors and students (Downing & Dyment, 2013)...
Through careful selection of contemporary research, this volume demonstrates the different ways in which groups of learners as well as educators go about the complex task of innovatively designing and implementing technologies in education. The book explores a wide range of conceptual, disciplinary, methodological, national and sectoral boundaries...
Online discussion forums are often the only interaction or communication a student in an online learning environment will have with the course instructor and fellow students. Discussion forums are intended to elicit a range of thinking skills from the students, from purely social interaction to metacognition in order to achieve deep learning. Given...
In the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model, cognitive presence indicators can be used to evaluate the quality of inquiry in a discussion forum. Engagement in critical thinking and deep knowledge can occur through reflective processes. When learners move through the four phases of cognitive presence (triggering, exploration, integration, resolution), t...
Online discussion forums are often the only interaction or communication a student in an
online learning environment will have with the course instructor and fellow students.
Discussion forums are intended to elicit a range of thinking skills from the students, from
purely social interaction to metacognition in order to achieve deep learning. Given...
As curricula change, so must the tools used by learners and teachers and the plethora of mobile digital devices will likely play a major role in redefining education. The Digital Education Revolution (DER), with funding of more than $2 billion, was intended to provide Australian students with a world-class education system underpinned by the effect...
Widespread availability of smartphones and similar devices with connection to the Internet is influencing the evolution of higher education across disciplines. For teacher educators there is an additional consideration of how to prepare teachers to use such devices in their own practice once they graduate. This paper will address some related issue...
Students are seeking flexible study opportunities. Smartphones have potential to support learning at times and places chosen by learners but their introduction presents challenges in negotiating the changes in the behaviour of learners and in the materials and activities provided by university courses. This project, funded by DEHub in two Queenslan...
There has been substantial research into the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in higher education but, as mobile access to the Internet becomes the norm, there is a need to explore how mLearning can offer the flexibility expected by increasing numbers of undergraduate university students. This DEHub funded project, conducted...
This paper will share the experiences of two instructors as they moved from teaching in a face-to-face environment to blended teaching and then to online teaching. It will describe the four-year journey and shed light on the issues, perspectives and practices as the instructors reflected on the changes to their pedagogical practice and the resultin...
This paper investigates ways in which pedagogical practice or teaching presence changes over time by sharing the experiences of two instructors as they move from teaching face-to-face to teaching online within a collaborative project. A self-study methodology provides the theoretical background where two instructors share their stories describing t...
Discussions at monthly meetings of the Learning Technology Mentors CoP enabled informal evaluation across the life of the project.
In mid-2010 simple open ended questionnaires were circulated to mentors and selected staff members with whom mentors had been working to evaluate progress to that point. Responses indicated that the mentor positions had...
This paper will discuss an international online collaborative learning experience through the lens of the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework. The teacher knowledge required to effectively provide transformative learning experiences for 21st century learners in a digital world is complex, situated and changing. The discuss...
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The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) is undertaking a research project associated with Redmond, Heffernan, Abawi, Brown and Henderson’s (2018), Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education.
The purpose of this survey is to identify practice-based use of the five student engagement indicators.
If you are employed in a higher education role relating to student engagement, or you are a higher education teacher we would encourage you to participate.
The survey is anonymous, and this research project has been approved by the University of Southern Queensland’s Human Research Ethics Committee.
Please use this link to complete this survey or to find out more: https://surveys.usq.edu.au/index.php/167916?lang=en
COVID-19 has changed the way we work, live and learn. Most educational institutions have moved to some type of alternative education provision. Research into in the impact of the disruptions and challenges on educators is currently being conducted at the University of Southern Queensland. We are interested in how the changes have impacted on your anxiety, work engagement and self-efficacy.
We are looking for Educators from around the world to complete an online survey. The participants should be educators could be from any education sector e.g. Early Childhood, K - 12, Higher Education, Vocational Education and workplace trainers.
The survey takes, on average, approximately 5 minutes.
If you are willing to help us by completing the survey, here is the link: https://tinyurl.com/y73yj5fe
We are using a snowballing technique to gather more participants so feel free to pass on to colleagues or your professional networks.
This research project has ethical approval from the University of Southern Queensland (Human Research Ethics Approval Number – H20REA103).
Our sincere thanks in advance for competing the survey, should you decide to do so. Your input into this study will be extremely valuable.
We are interested in your social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have some time to spare please complete our online survey at https://bit.ly/3fhZ6L3
Interested in guest editing a special issue related to technology enhanced learning in higher education? Check out the call for proposals for a special issue of #AJET in 2019. Info at https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/pages/view/SpecialIssueCall … #edtech #highereducation
This is an international call out for applications for new Associate Editors to join the existing editorial team of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET). More info at https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/pages/view/EOIeditor
Help! Australian K-6 Teachers and pre-service teachers. Please take 15 minutes to complete an online survey. Tell us about how much you do OR don't know about Digital Technologies. http://203.101.226.44/index.php/689638?lang=en
Please pass on to colleagues.
