Research interests

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Research interests

• Mary Tate

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ET-TE Educational Technology-Technology Education

• A rather fragmented program of work which has
  suffered from not being a top research priority
• Nevertheless, we believe it has a lot of
  potential
• Excellent fit with both VUW and NZ government
  strategic direction, the skills and interests of
  the school, and potential exists for external
  funding

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Software visualisation (TE)

• 408 project and masterate thesis by Mark Wilson
• Development of an exploratory non-interactive
  notation for object-oriented multi-media
• Not published at this time

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Management of re-usable learning objects (ET)

• INFO 408 project by Darren Hoshek
• Case study at the NZ Correspondance School.
• Further potential including funding opportunities
• In advanced draft

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Flexible learning evaluation (ET-TE)

• Survey repeated over 4 offerings of ELCM 201
  many people involved!
• Development of a survey instrument
• Evaluation of flexible leaning effectiveness
  based on a number of demographic factors
• Data currently being analysed
• ACIS paper published 2003

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Technology education for marketing complex
technology products (TE)

• New this year
• Looking at techniques for educating clients about
  complex, bundled technology products, so they can
  have a higher quality of dialogue and negotiation
  with vendors.

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Outsourcing

• Ongoing management of the outsourcing
  relationship
• INFO 408 project - Hugo Gong
• Building on a model from an Australian colleague
  and PhD student Shawn Alborz
• Collaborative publication with Shawn planned
• Data currently being analysed

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RFID

• New this year
• With Brian H and INFO 408 students