Professor Sue Gregory

Head of School, Education - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education

Sue Gregory

Phone: +61 2 6773 3716

Email: hosedu@une.edu.au

Twitter: @SueGregory

Biography

Professor Sue Gregory is the Head of School, School of Education, at the University of New England. Her role requires developing strategic initiatives and aligning resources that support the University and Faculty goals, and developing and maintaining linkages, internally and externally, including accreditation bodies, industry partners and community leaders. Previously, Sue has held positions of Chair of Research, Higher Degree Research Course Coordinator, a UNE Education Scholar and a lecturer in ICT Education. She also holds a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Sue has been the Leader of the eLearning, ePedagogy and Innovations Research Network Group in the school. As a long-term adult educator, she has taught pre-service and post-graduate education students how to incorporate technology into their teaching. Sue has applied her virtual world knowledge to expose her students, both on-campus and online, to the learning opportunities in virtual worlds, since 2007.

Sue has been involved in many national and university projects on creating and using learning spaces in virtual worlds and successful in receiving over $6m in funds (project lead on 19 out of 34). She has also received an OLT citation, an Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) and Australian College of Educators (ACE) awards. Since 2009, Sue has been the Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group, written over 200 publications on teaching and learning in virtual worlds and using ICT as a resource in online learning and teaching, including an Editor of five books on teaching and learning in virtual worlds (four as lead editor). Sue has presented her findings at more than 120 presentations or workshops domestically, internationally, in person and online. Sue is a Life Member of ASCILITE (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education) and has been on the Senior Executive committee since 2012.

Qualifications

BA; Grad Dip Ed (Infants/Primary); MEd (Computer Education); PhD; SFHEA

Teaching Areas

ICT Education

Primary Research Area/s

Online education; Virtual education; ICT education

Research Interests

Virtual worlds; Distance education; Online learning; Mobile learning

Grants

Publications

Summary of Publications - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Publications%20overviewEdited

Books - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Edited%20Books

Book Chapters - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Book%20Chapters

Refereed Journal Articles - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Refereed%20Journal%20Articles

Edited Journal Special Issues - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Edited%20Books

Edited Conference Proceedings - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Edited%20Books

NTRO - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#NTROs

Non-referred papers - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Non-Refereed%20Publications

Conference proceedings - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Refereed%20Conference%20Proceedings

Reports - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Reports

Posters - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Posters

Published interviews - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Published%20Interviews

Thesis - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Thesis

Summary of Presentations/Workshops -

http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#PresentationsWorkshopsConference

Presentations - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#Conference_PresentationsPresentations/Workshops

Presentations/Workshops - http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/papers.htm#PresentationsWorkshops

Memberships

ASCILITE (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education) – Life Member from 2020, Executive Member since 2012, Vice President, Chair of Awards, part of the team Community mentoring program (2014 to 2016, 2018 to 2019), organsiser and facilitator of the ASCILITE Spring into Excellence Research school, organiser and facilitator and of Women in Academic Leadership program, Co-Convenor of the ASCILITE 2020 and 2021 conferences (online and hybrid).

Further Information