Bronwyn Hegarty
From WikiEducator
My professional role
- I am an educational developer in the Educational Development Centre, and work with several staff on flexible development projects.
- I teach a course called Flexible Learning in the Graduate Certificate of Tertiary learning and Teaching at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.
- I also teach Evaluation of eLearning for Effective Practice as part of the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) Graduate Certificate in Applied eLearning.
- Other aspects of my role include educational design, teaching and learning strategies for flexibility and the use of technology in education.
Bronwyn's email and profile at Otago Polytechnic, and some References to my work.
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| Employer: | Otago Polytechnic | ||
| Occupation: | Educational Developer | ||
| Other roles: | Principal Lecturer, Doctoral Candidate, researcher, online facilitator, project manager. | ||
| Nationality: | New Zealander | ||
| Country: | New Zealand | ||
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Recent Research outputs
- Hegarty, B. (2011). A Framework to Guide Professional Learning and Reflective Practice. Thesis submitted. University of Wollongong, NSW.
- Hegarty, B. (2011). Is reflective writing an enigma? Can preparing evidence for an electronic portfolio develop skills for reflective practice? In G.Williams, P. Statham, N. Brown, B. Cleland (Eds.), Changing Demands, Changing Directions. Proceedings ascilite Hobart 2011. (pp.580-593). [1]
- Hegarty, B. (2011) How teachers use blogs for professional development and enhancing digital capability. Full conference paper accepted and presented at the international conference on eLearning Futures, Auckland, 2011. Available at: [2]
- Blackall, L., & Hegarty, B. (2011) Open Education Practices: A User Guide for Organisations. AKO Aotearoa funded publication. Available at: [3]
- Hegarty, B., Penman, M., Kelly, O., Jeffrey, L., Coburn, D. and McDonald, J. (2010) Digital Information Literacy: Supported Development of Capability in Tertiary Environments. Final report. Ministry of Education, Wellington. ISBN 978-0-478-34214-7 (web) [4]
- Jordan, S. & Hegarty, B. (2010). Laxatives. (2nd Edn). In S. Jordan (Ed), Pharmacology for Midwives, the Evidence Base for Safe Practice. Hampshire: Palgrave.
History using WikiEducator
My first introduction to WikiEducator happened in September 2006 when I added myself as a volunteer to help create a wiki version of the elearning Guidebook. I became interested in the Commonwealth of Learning initiatives in 2004 when I helped organise the PCF3 and DEANZ (Distance Education in New Zealand) conference in Dunedin. One of the outputs of the conference was a paper proposing strategies for helping meet the United Nations Millenium goals.
Course development using WikiEducator
Since 2007, as an Educational Developer, I have both created and helped academic colleagues at Otago Polytechnic to create courses on Wikieducator. Namely:
- The Anatomy and Physiology of Animals
- HIVAIDS
- Evaluation of eLearning for Best Practice
- Designing for flexible learning practice
- Facilitating online communities
- Digital information literacy
- Food Safety
WikiEducator Council
I was elected to the WikiEducator Council in 2008 (my campaign page) to advocate for the following:
- Better collaboration between global communities to share resources;
- More diverse educational resources - produced in partnership for communities who do not have online access;
- Educational approaches to support the United Nations Millenium goals;
- Wider use of Wikieducator nationally in New Zealand for sustainable tertiary education;
- More practical and streamlined use of resources on WikiEducator;
- Usability testing and research evaluation of Wikieducator resources for effective learning;
- Improved functionality of the Wikieducator platform for the "cautious" educator;
- More versatile design tools and features for the wiki pages.
