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Inventory of the James Hogg Collection. Special Collections, University of Otago
‘The works of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, have experienced a remarkable revival in recent years and sustained attention to his works is long overdue’. So says Alker and Nelson’s ‘Introduction’ to James Hogg and the ... -
Helen Smaill's Photograph Album: Traces of care in the mission archive
For my thirtieth birthday my mother gave me a photograph album she had compiled using an online template that was then printed and sent to her home. She had spent hours looking through old photographic prints that she keeps ... -
The Office: The impact of the digital revolution on the office practices of early career academics
This thesis is fundamentally about the digital revolution and its impact on the office practices of new academics. It explored the degree to which a group of early career academics were being influenced by ‘new ways of ... -
The contribution of simulation in the development of clinical judgement: Students’ perspectives
Clinical experiences are essential for the development of clinical judgement in nursing students. Clinical experiences offer students situated and contextual learning opportunities to apply their theoretical knowledge to ... -
Individual, Institutional and Environmental Factors Influencing Online Distance Tertiary Teaching in New Zealand
Online and distance teaching requires careful negotiation between the goals, beliefs and philosophy of the teacher and the inherent pedagogy of the technologies and system they are working within. While the relationships ... -
Listening and learning: myths and misperceptions about postgraduate students and library support
Purpose The University of Otago Library conducted a review of its postgraduate support program in 2018. The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of a questionnaire and follow up focus group undertaken as ... -
Explaining how students can learn the dispositional components of physical world actions by performing virtual world actions
Virtual worlds are an important educational technology for professional education because they enable students to take actions in a safe, simulated environment while adopting specific professional roles. For example, medical ... -
Reflecting on Culture in Medicine: Second-year medical students' online discussions
This thesis reports on a qualitative study of the role of reflection in the development of second year medical students’ intercultural competence. Reflective capacity is an important professional competency and is crucial ... -
The misalignment between the expectations of fashion students, fashion tertiary educators, and the fashion industry
What motivates students to study fashion design? What employment opportunities are there in the fashion design industry for fashion graduates? These are some of the core questions raised in this thesis. Fashion design ... -
The PhD Viva: Unfolding the practices and experiences of doctoral examiners in Malaysia
This thesis reports on a study of the examiner practices and experiences of the PhD viva from the perspective of doctoral examiners in Malaysia. The PhD viva is an oral examination used compulsorily as part of the assessment ... -
The Role of Analytics in Higher Education
Higher education institutions are increasingly accumulating a significant amount of data on students, teachers, facilities and curricula (Bichsel, 2012; Gantz & Reinsel, 2012, Siemens & Long, 2011). In the last decade, ... -
The pedagogical reasoning underpinning the adoption and non-adoption of the flipped classroom model in New Zealand higher education institutions
Research evidence suggests that active learning and student engagement are important considerations in teaching and learning environment within higher education. Notably, existing research has frequently focused on the ... -
The Use of Humour in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
This study explored the use of humour in teaching and learning in higher education classrooms. Despite the growing body of research on humour in higher education, limited studies have attended to teachers’ perspectives. ... -
The experiences of native English speaking academics who work and live in Japan
This thesis provides an account of a qualitative doctoral study that explored native English speaking academics’ experiences living and working in Japan, in relation to the internationalisation policy in Japanese higher ... -
Equity in New Zealand university graduate outcomes: Māori and Pacific graduates
Higher education confers significant private and social benefits. Māori and Pacific peoples are under-represented within New Zealand universities and have poorer labour market outcomes (e.g., lower wages, under-represented ... -
Researching smarter: five years of online self-paced information skills learning with Health Sciences students.
Introduction: ResearchSmart is a modular, self-directed and self-paced online course originally designed by Health Sciences Library subject librarians for second year medical students (25% of whom enter the course with ... -
Māori University success: what helps and hinders qualification completion
Māori (Indigenous New Zealand) university graduates are role models for educational success and are critical for the social and economic wellbeing of Māori whānau (extended family) and communities. In this study, Māori ...