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Professor John Hedberg

Professor John Hedberg Title: Professor and Head of Department
Phone: 02 9850 8665
Fax: 02 9850 8674
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Office: C3A 922
Address: Department of Education
Macquarie University
NSW Australia 2109

Introduction

Dr John Hedberg holds the Millennium Innovations Chair of ICT and Education in the School of Education. He has taught postgraduate courses on cognitive strategies, interface design for learning, and implementation and evaluation of technology-based learning. He has also taught strategic planning for technology implementation in schools and has also written on policy aspects of new technologies in education.

He has designed training needs assessments, evaluation systems and conducted workshops on the instructional design and evaluation of e-learning environments. He has been keynote speaker at numerous conferences on the educational technologies in Canada, United States, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Europe, and many states in Australia.



Research Interests

Dr Hedberg recently completed several research projects about the use of ICTs in learning. These have included: The use of mobile phones as social software tools in orienteering tasks in geography, using communities of practice as a staff development strategy, using cognitive tools to develop mathematics problem solving repertoire; internet literacy and the production of multi-modal artefacts in History and Science. In 2007, he completed an evaluation for the Learning Federation about the use of Interactive Whiteboards with their learning objects.

He is also working with Professor Peter Freebody and a team from University of Sydney, University of Queensland and Dr Wilhelmina van Rooy, and Dr Penny van Bergen from Macquarie on an ARC project exploring the role of digital representations in the new life sciences.

With the Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre and his graduate students he is exploring digital representation and early mathematics learning with robots, in particular he is interested in 2D and 3D representations and how younger learners generate mental models of the differences. 

 



Community Outreach

Professor Hedberg currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Interactive Learning Research, ALT-J, Distance Education and the program committee for Asia-Pacific e-Learning Conference. From 2000-2006, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Educational Media International, a refereed journal for those interested in the application of media and technology in learning contexts throughout the world and he served as the President of the International Council for Educational Media, a UNESCO affiliate between 2006 and 2008.



Teaching Links
Administration  
CoordinatorACES815Evaluation of Educational Programs
CoordinatorACES861Educational Programs and Information Technology
CoordinatorACES865ICT and Classroom Practice

 

Publications
YearLinkCitation
2009

Bower, M., Hedberg, J., & Kuswara, A. (2009). Conceptualising Web 2.0 enabled learning designs. In Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Aukland, (pp. 1153-1162).
2009

Bower, M., & Hedberg, J. (2009). Educational User Interface Design. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009, Honolulu, HI, 22-26 June (pp. 963-972). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
2008

Highfield, K., Mulligan, J., & Hedberg, J. (2008). Early mathematics learning through exploration with programmable toys. In O. Figueras, J. Cortina, S. Alatorre, T. Rojano & A. Sepúlveda (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of PME 32 and PME-NA XXX (Vol. 3, pp. 169-176). México: Cinvestav-UMSNH.
2008Lee, C-S., Koper, R., Kommers, P., & Hedberg, J. G., (2008) Editorial for Reference Models for forming organizational or collaborative pedagogical best practices. Int. J. Cont. Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, 18(1), 1-5.
2008Agostinho, S., Oliver, R., Harper, B., Hedberg, J. & Wills, S., (2008). A visual learning design representation to facilitate dissemination and reuse of innovative pedagogical strategies in university teaching. In L. Botturi, & S. T. Stubbs (Eds.) Handbook of Visual Languages for Instructional Design: Theories and Practices. (pp. 380-393). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
2008Blasi, L., Fiore, S. M., Hedberg, J. G. & Schmid, R.. (2008). The social consequences of design and development teams. In J. M. Spector, M D. Merrill, J. van Merriënboer, & M. Driscoll (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Educatoinal Communications and Technology. (3rd Ed.), (pp 647-658). New York: Laurence Erlbaum. ISBN 978-0-415-96338-1
2007=891Hedberg, J. G. & Freebody, K. (2007). Towards a disruptive pedagogy: Classroom practices that combine interactive whiteboards with TLF digital content. Melbourne: Le@rning Federation. Retrieved August 15, 2007
2007Chang, C. H., & Hedberg, J. G. (2007) Digital libraries creating environmental identity through solving geographical problems. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 16(1), 58-72. 
2007Lee, C-C., Bopry, J., & Hedberg, J. G., (2007) Methodological issues in using sequential representations in the teaching of writing. ALT-J, Research in Learning Technology, 14(2), 131-141.
2007Hedberg, J. G. & Chang, C. H., (2007) The G-portal Digital Repository as a Potentially Disruptive Pedagogical Innovation. Educational Media International, 44(1), 3-15.
2007Ho, K. F., Tan, P., & Hedberg, J. G. (2007). An 'Understand, Strategise, Execute and Reflect' (USER) approach to the teaching of mathematical problem solving - One teacher's experience. In C. Shegar & R. B. Abdul Rahim (Eds.), Redesigning pedagogy: Voices of practitioners. (pp. 147-156). Singapore: Pearson Education South Asia.
2007Oliver, R., Harper, B., Wills, S., Agostinho, S., & Hedberg, J. (2007). Describing ICT-based learning designs that promote quality learning outcomes. In H. Beetham & R. Sharpe (Eds.) Rethinking pedagogy for the Digital Age. (pp. 64-80). London: Routledge.
2007Reeves, T. C. & Hedberg, J. G. (2007). Evaluation strategies for open and distributed learning environments. In B. Khan, (ed.). Flexible learning in an Information Society. (pp. 226-235). Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing.
2007Hedberg, J. G. (2007). Don Garthon and Susan Harper: Professional development for K-6 teachers in remote areas. In J Quinn and P. Ertmer, (eds.) The ID Casebook: Case Studies in Instructional Design. (3rd Edition). (pp. 43-49). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, Merrill Prentice Hall.
2006Hedberg, J. G., (2006). Moving on from e-Learning: Searching for disruptive pedagogies, Keynote to 5th Annual WebCT European Users Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, February 27th to March 1st, 2006.
2006Lim, C.P., Nonis, D., & Hedberg, J. (2006). Gaming in a 3D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE): Engaging students in Science lessons. British Journal of Educational Technology, 37(2), 211-231.
2006Tan, D. K C, Hedberg, J.G., Koh, T. S., & Seah, W. C. (2006). Datalogging in Singapore schools: supporting effective implementations. Research in Science & Technological Education. 24(1), 111-127.
2006Ferry B., Kervin, L., Puglisi, S., Cambourne, B., Turbill, J., Jonassen, D., & Hedberg, J. (2006). Online Classroom Simulation: using a virtual classroom to support pre-service teacher thinking. T. Herrington & J. Herrington (Eds.). Authentic Learning Environments in Higher Education. (pp.135-161). Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing.
2006Lefoe, G. & Hedberg, J. G., (2006). Blending on and off campus: A tale of two cities. In C. Bonk & C. Graham (Eds.) Handbook of Blended Learning Environments: Global perspectives, local designs. (pp 325-337). San Francisco: Pfeiffer.
2005Lim, K., Hedberg, J., & Chatterjea, K., (2005). Peer-negotiated constructions of space and place using mobile telephony. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.) Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2005 World Conference On Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. (pp 3961-3965). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
2005Brudvik, O.C.. & Hedberg, J.G. (2005). Visual representations for Students’ learning processes in Internet Tasks. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.) Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2005 World Conference On Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. (pp 3806-3812). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
2005Hedberg, J., & Lefoe, G., (2005). Blended Learning: An Asian tale. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.) Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2005 World Conference On Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. (pp 1595-1600). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
2005Hedberg, J. G., & Chang, C. H.., (2005). G-Portal: Supporting argumentation and mutlimodality in student solutions to geographical problems. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.) Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2005 World Conference On Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. (pp 4242-4247). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
2005Lim, W. Y., Hedberg, J. G., Yeo, J., & Hung, D., (2005). Fostering Communities of Practice of Heads of IT departments using common projects. Paper presented to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Leadership and Technology International Convention, Orlando, FL, October 18-22, 2005.  Published as M. Simonson, & M Crawford (Eds.) 28th Annual Proceedings. (Vol 1) (pp. 320-327). Bloomington IN: Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Research and Theory Division.
2005Hung, D., Tan, S. C., Hedberg, J., & Koh, T. S. (2005). A Framework for Fostering a Community of Practice: Scaffolding Learners through an Evolving Continuum. British Journal of Educational Technology,  36(2), 159-176.
2005Muthukumar, S. L. and Hedberg, J.G. (2005). A knowledge management technology architecture for educational research organizations:: Scaffolding research modeling and workflow processing. British Journal of Educational Technology, 36(3), 379-395.
2005Bopry, J. & Hedberg, J. G. (2005). Designing encounters for meaningful experience, with lessons from J. K. Rowling. Educational Media International, 42(2), 179–194.
2005Foo, S. Y., Ho, J. M., & Hedberg, J. G., (2005). Teacher understandings of technology affordances and their impact on the design of engaging learning experiences. Educational Media International, 42(4), 297-316.
2005Ho, K.F., & Hedberg, J. G. (2005). Teachers’ pedagogies and their impact on students’ mathematical problem solving. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 24 (3 & 4), 238-252.
2003Reeves, T. C. & Hedberg, J. G. (2003). Interactive Learning Systems Evaluation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

 

Grants
YearSourceTitleAmount
2007Macquarie University External Collaborative Research Grant Working mathematically: Teaching and learning in an interactive multimedia e-learning environment$103,264

 

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