Projects
I am involved in many things, but currently important projects are:
Online Education: “Learning in Networks of Knowledge”
I am currently undertaking a project, funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, as part of my duties as a Teaching Fellow. The project involves developing and assessing new methods of learning via the Internet. It assists the re-invigoration of university-level online learning by updating techniques and underlying pedagogic approaches to take account of the changing nature of the Internet in society today. The aim is to focus on web 2.0 technologies and thinking as a way of making online learning more like knowledge networking.
Internet Research: E-Governance
Website coming
Professor Mark Balnaves, soon to take up a Senior research Fellowship in Internet Studies, Curtin University of Technology, is leading a research programme concerned with problems and issues and new directions in e-governance, especially as it might differ from e-government and needs to promote participatory democratic engagement. I am involved in this programme.
Internet Research: The experience of connectivity
Based on extensive survey of Australian Internet users in late 2007, I am developing ideas about the link between people’s use of the Internet and how they think about and thus experience ‘connectivity’. Data analysis and paper writing underway.
