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Anthony Herrington
Faculty of Education
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The Professional Development of Human Service Professionals in Rural and Remote Areas: Investigating the Affordances of the Internet
Anthony Herrington
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1598–1604
This paper is a report of work-in-progress on a project that seeks to identify effective ways in which the Internet can be used to overcome the isolation of human service professionals employed in rural and remote areas. Professionals employed in...
Topics: Professional Development, Internet
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Adult educators’ authentic use of smartphones to create digital teaching resources
Anthony Herrington
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2008 (2008) pp. 414–418
The development of digital resources set in authentic contexts using mobile technologies is reflected in this study. The research involved adult educators creating teaching episodes or digital narratives using smartphones, as part of a postgraduate...
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‘Please switch off your (im)mobile’: The demise of immobile learning in higher education
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 3449–3454
Mobile devices are more and more becoming indispensible tools in everyday life. However, universities continue to rely on the provision of computer labs for ICT-based instruction where in many cases mobile phones would be a much more appropriate...
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Authentic Assessment and Multimedia: How University Students Respond to a Model of Authentic Assessment
Jan Herrington; Anthony Herrington
Higher Education Research and Development Vol. 17, No. 3 (1998) pp. 305–22
Describes seven defining characteristics of "authentic" assessment and how they have been operationalized in an interactive multimedia learning environment in preservice teacher education. A study showed students responded favorably to the elements...
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Internet Communities of Practice for the Professional Development of Beginning Teachers
Anthony Herrington; Evan Glazer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1859–1861
The professional development of beginning teachers is necessary for the sustainability of the teaching profession within the context of a reform-based curriculum. The trend in professional development indicates a shift from traditional approaches...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development
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Supporting Action Learning with a Web-based Environment for Sharing Teaching Strategies
Garry Hoban; Anthony Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3080–3084
Action learning involves a small group of six to eight people who meet regularly to share reflections and discuss ideas that they try out in practice. Key to the process of action learning is the sharing of personally relevant issues or problems in...
Topics: Learning Outcomes
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Re-Examining Categories of Computer-Based Learning in Mathematics Education
Boris Handal; Anthony Herrington
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 3, No. 3 (April 2003) pp. 275–287
In 2002, the online journal Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education republished the seminal paper by Arthur Luehrmann discussing approaches to using computers in schools in the 1970s (Luehrmann, 2002a). Juxtaposed with this...
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On Being Dependent or Independent in Computer Based Learning Environments
Boris Handal; Anthony Herrington
E-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology Vol. 7, No. 2 (2004)
This paper critically examines the concepts of field dependent and field independent cognitive styles within the context of computer-based instruction. The literature suggests that hypermedia instructional environments are more likely to engage...
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Why teachers are reluctant to use new technologies: Supporting teachers' action learning within a web environment
Garry Hoban; Anthony Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2581–2588
Action learning involves a small group (6-8 people) who meet regularly to share reflections and discuss ideas that they try out in practice. Key to the process of action learning is the sharing of personally relevant issues or problems in relation...
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Online Support for Preservice Mathematics Teachers in Schools
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Arshad Omari
Mathematics Teacher Education and Development Vol. 2 (2000) pp. 62–74
Describes the development of a web-based resource on school practice designed to support preservice mathematics teachers. Conducts focus group discussions to gain ideas from students about the type of support that would be most helpful to them as...
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Developing an Online Community of Learners for Second Language Students Using Design-Based Research
Mariolina Pais Marden; Jan Herrington; Anthony Herrington
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1862–1867
This paper describes the design of a research project that adopted a design-based research (DBR) approach to create and implement an online community of second language learners of Italian. For one semester a group of sixteen intermediate and...
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Authentic Approaches to Learning Assessment Strategies: Beginning Teachers' Practice in Classrooms
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Evan Glazer
Annual Meeting [of the] North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education 2002 (2002)
In the project described in this paper, the synthesis of research into situated learning was used to design and develop a multimedia learning environment to teach assessment strategies in mathematics to preservice teachers which was intended to...
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The BEST site on the internet: An online resource for beginning and establishing successful teachers
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lisa Kervin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2646–2651
Beginning teachers face enormous challenges in their first year of teaching. High attrition rates of teachers within the first five years attest to the difficulties inherent in commencing professional life as a teacher. This paper describes the...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development, Evaluation
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Design-based research: Learning Italian at university in a community of learners
Mariolina Pais Marden; Jan Herrington; Anthony Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2966–2972
This paper describes a study where design-based research (DBR) is used as a framework for the design and implementation of an online community of foreign language learners, in the context of learning Italian as a second language at university. An...
Topics: Community, Learning Objects, Learning Management Systems, Languages
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Describing and Categorising Online Professional Development for Teachers
Anthony Herrington; Evan Glazer; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1966–1969
The professional development of teachers is an important and necessary process in successful school teaching and learning. While there are varied approaches to professional development there is a widespread view that many have been problematic. The...
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Learning To Assess School Mathematics: Context, Multimedia and Transfer
Jan Herrington; Anthony Herrington; Len Sparrow
Mathematics Teacher Education and Development Vol. 2 (2000) pp. 75–92
Explores the use of a multimedia program on assessment strategies within a preservice teacher mathematics method unit and investigates the extent of transfer to classroom practice. Indicates that all students used a variety of assessment strategies...
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Mobile learning in higher education: Authentic tasks, assessment and Web 2.0
Jan Herrington; Anthony Herrington; Ian Olney
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1988–1993
Increasingly ubiquitous and smart devices have enabled learning opportunities away from established learning places, as students have extended the means and the spaces in which they learn. In this paper, we describe the evolution of a project...
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Workplace culture and accessibility of the Internet for professional learning
Madeleine Shanahan; Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 4423–4432
The World Wide Web is an important information source for professionals providing immediate access to the most current information and recent research. This study examined accessibility to the Internet within healthcare workplaces by utilising two...
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New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile technologies and new ways of teaching and learning
Jan Herrington; Jessica Mantei; Anthony Herrington; Ian Olney; Brian Ferry
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2008 (2008) pp. 419–427
This paper describes a major development and research study that investigated the use of mobile technologies in higher education. The project investigated the educational potential of two ubiquitous mobile devices: Palm smart phones and iPod digital ...
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Teachers' perceptions of online modules to promote professional learning of ICT
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Garry Hoban; Doug Reid
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2229–2238
Online professional learning has the potential to be a cost effective, flexible approach that can reach large numbers of teachers. However, there are many factors that need to be evaluated in developing successful online approaches that impact on...
Topics: Teachers, Evaluation
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Transfer of Online Professional Learning to Teachers’ Classroom Practice
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Garry Hoban; Doug Reid
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 2009) pp. 189–213
Professional learning is an important process in enabling teachers to update their pedagogical knowledge and practices. The use of online technologies to support professional learning has a number of benefits in terms of flexibility and scalability. ...
Topics: Schools, eLearning, Professional Development, Teachers, Information Communication Technologies
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Supporting Beginning Teachers: A Web-based Collegial Enterprise
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Arshad Omari; Ron Oliver
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 736–742
This paper describes the design, development and evaluation of a website designed to ameliorate many of the problems encountered by beginning teachers. The site allows new teachers, and preservice teachers on school practice, to communicate with...
Topics: Research Methods, Teachers
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Transfer of online professional learning to teachers’ classroom practice: An analysis of eight cases
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Garry Hoban; Doug Reid
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1383–1389
Professional learning is an important process in enabling teachers to update their pedagogical knowledge and practices. The use of online technologies to support professional learning has a number of benefits in terms of flexibility and scalability. ...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Classrooms
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Beginning teacher network: The design of an online community of practice for beginning teachers in Australia
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lori Lockyer; Ian Brown
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3251–3258
The high attrition rate of teachers in their first five years of teaching coupled with an ageing teacher profile necessitates innovative approaches to beginning teacher support and professional development. This paper argues (and provides a...
Topics: Community, Teachers, Professional Development, Research Methods
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The Design of an Online Community of Practice for Beginning Teachers
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lisa Kervin; Brian Ferry
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2006) pp. 120–132
Beginning teachers face enormous challenges in their first year of teaching. High attrition rates of teachers within the first five years attest to the difficulties inherent in commencing professional life as a teacher. This paper describes the...
Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Mentoring, Preservice Teacher Education, Teachers, Community
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Representing Authentic Learning Designs Supporting the Development of Online Communities of Learners
Ron Oliver; Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Thomas C. Reeves
Journal of Learning Design Vol. 2, No. 2 (2007) pp. 1–21
Authentic learning designs have been explored for some time now and have frequently been shown to provide learning settings that provide many meaningful contexts for learning. These meaningful contexts provide not only encouragement for students to...
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Smartpens in second or other language learning environments
Stuart Knox; Anthony Herrington; Robyn Quin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 2736–2741
This paper seeks to determine the affordances of Smartpen technology for adult learners in an ESL learning environment by identifying the ways in which Smartpens are used by participants to facilitate their learning. The Pulse™ Smartpen records...
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Promoting blended learning through eTeaching and Learning scholars
Anthony Herrington; Judy Schrape; Kim Flintoff
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3881–3885
Blended learning is an approach to teaching and learning that is being promoted at many universities involving an integration of learning technologies and face-to-face teaching. This paper outlines a strategy for promoting blended learning that...
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Literacy Practitioners' Perspectives on Adult Learning Needs and Technology Approaches in Indigenous Communities
Michelle Eady; Anthony Herrington; Caroline Jones
Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol. 50, No. 2 (July 2010) pp. 260–286
Current reports of literacy rates in Australia indicate an ongoing gap in literacy skills between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian adults, at a time when the literacy demands of work and life are increasing. There are many perspectives on...
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Constructivist-based learning using location-aware mobile technology: an exploratory study
Pranit Anand; Anthony Herrington; Shirley Agostinho
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2312–2316
Mobile wireless technologies have the potential to exploit its location-awareness capabilities to engage learners in constructivist collaborative learning activities yet there is little research that explores this capability. This paper is a report ...
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Blogging Beginning Teaching
Anthony Herrington; Lisa Kervin; Joanne Ilias
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2232–2239
Weblogging is fast becoming a popular way to use technology to critically reflect and comment on workplace practices and experiences. This paper analyses the weblogs of beginning teachers who are members of an online community of practice. The...
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Establishing Design Principles for Online Synchronous Literacy Learning for Indigenous Learners
Michelle Eady; Anthony Herrington; Caroline Jones
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 1049–1054
Synchronous learning has the potential to provide literacy and essential skills training to Indigenous learners living in remote and isolated communities. Although there is considerable research completed in the area of internet-based learning...
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Disseminating and Implementing Educational Research Findings: Stages in the Development of an Online Course for Mathematics Teachers
Gail Hood; Anthony Herrington; Barry Harper
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2162–2169
Between 1999 and 2003 the TIMSS Video Study (Mathematics) analyzed eighth-grade classes from seven countries. Findings are published in two written reports and a set of twenty-eight public release lessons. This paper examines the development of an...
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Enabling teaching, enabling learning: How does staff development fit the educational technology landscape?
Geraldine Lefoe; Ian Olney; Anthony Herrington
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2008 (2008) pp. 532–540
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A scholarship program for academic staff to develop exemplary online learning tasks
Anthony Herrington; Judy Schrape; Kim Flintoff; Tama Leaver; Sheena O'Hare
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 423–437
There is a strong impetus for blended learning approaches to be more widely adopted in higher education but finding an effective model for professional development of teaching staff can be problematic. In 2009, Curtin University developed an...
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PD for ML in HE: Embedding mobile learning in a university context
Anthony Herrington; Judy Schrape; Kim Flintoff; Jacqui Kelly; Kuki Singh; Diana Taylor
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 2573–2578
Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous in university settings. While online learning using desktop and laptop device has seen significant growth over the last decade, the next decade will see an increased use of online learning via mobile devices...
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Mature Students Using Mobile Devices in Life and Learning
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme; Ana Carvalho; David Kennedy; John Pettit; Linda Bradley; Anthony Herrington; Aisha Walker
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 2011) pp. 18–52
The paper reports on research concerned with learners’ uses of mobile technologies based on an international survey that targeted students registered in selected master’s and doctoral programmes in Australia, Hong Kong, Portugal, Sweden, and the...