Interactive QuickTime: Developing and Evaluating Multimedia Learning Objects to Enhance Both Face-To-Face and Distance E-Learning Environments

Thomas Cochrane

Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2005) pp. 33–54

This paper discusses the application of Learning Objects in supporting the teaching of principles of Audio Engineering - a subject traditionally taught face-to-face utilizing specialized audio equipment. It demonstrates how creating interactive...

Mobile Social Media as a Catalyst for Pedagogical Change

Thomas Cochrane

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 2187–2200

The ubiquitous ownership and connectivity of mobile devices (smartphones and touch-screen tablets) coupled with the collaborative affordances of social media and the contextual awareness of geolocative augmented reality provide a rich platform ...

Topics: Teaching/Learning Strategies

EDR and Design Thinking: Enabling Creative Pedagogies

Thomas Cochrane; Joshua Munn

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 315–324

This paper explores the interrelationship between educational design research, design thinking that guides the design process, and the unique opportunities that mobile learning enables. As an example we outline the design thinking principles and...

Topics: Teaching/Learning Strategies, SIG: Emerging Technologies for Learning and Teaching, Design Principles

Do 21st Century Students Dream of Electric Sheep? A mobile social media framework for creative pedagogies

Thomas Cochrane; Andrew Withell

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2013 (2013) pp. 151–161

Students sometimes appear to be ‘asleep’ and are often updating their Facebook status during seminars and lectures. We argue this is the equivalent of counting electric sheep. Student brainwave activity measured during traditional lectures has been...

The Scholarship of Technology Enhanced Learning: Reimagining SOTL for the Social Network Age.

Thomas Cochrane; Vickel Narayan

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 594–603

In this discussion paper we propose a framework for embedding the scholarship of technology enhanced learning (SOTEL) within an educational design research (EDR) methodology. SOTEL updates Boyer’s scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) model to ...

Topics: social networks, Teacher education and technology integration, Global learning communities

iArchi[tech]ture: Developing a mobile social media framework for pedagogical transformation

Thomas Cochrane; David Rhodes

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul 17, 2013)

This paper critiques the journey of pedagogical change over three mobile learning (mlearning) project iterations (2009 to 2011) within the context of a Bachelor of Architecture degree. The three projects were supported by an intentional community of ...

A Framework for Designing Collaborative Learning Environments Using Mobile AR

Thomas Cochrane; Vickel Narayan; Laurent Antonczak

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 27, No. 4 (October 2016) pp. 293–316

Smartphones provide a powerful platform for augmented reality (AR). Using a smartphone’s camera together with the built in GPS, compass, gyroscope, and touch screen enables the real world environment to be overlaid with contextual digital...

Designing Collaborative Learning Environments Using Mobile AR

Thomas Cochrane; Vickel Narayan; Laurent Antonczak

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1394–1402

Smartphones provide a powerful platform for augmented reality (AR). Using a smartphone’s camera together with the built in GPS, compass, gyroscope, and touch screen enables the real world environment to be overlaid with contextual digital...

Topics: Teaching/Learning Strategies, cooperative/collaborative learning, SIG: Emerging Technologies for Learning and Teaching