Faculty Member, School of Education
Professor
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Dr Jan Herrington is Professor in Education at Murdoch University in Perth Western Australia. Jan’s work involves research and teaching in the undergraduate and post-graduate programs in the School of Education.
Jan’s current research focuses on the design of effective web-based learning environments for higher education and the use of authentic contexts and problem-based scenarios as a central focus for web-based delivery of unit. She is also researching in other ICT–related areas such as: computer games in early childhood, authentic learning in museums, design-based research and mobile learning.
Jan has published over 130 refereed journal articles, conference papers and chapters, and several books including a co-edited book (with Anthony Herrington) entitled Authentic Learning in Higher Education. She has won many awards for her research including the Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT) Young Researcher of the Year Award, and several Outstanding Paper awards at international conferences, most recently at EdMedia 2008.
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