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Student video production within health professions education: A scoping review
ABSTRACT Background Recent technological developments have influenced a shift in the use of videos in Health Professions Education (HPE). Rather than casting students in the role of observers of videos, educators have ... -
Students’ engagement patterns with digital learning technologies: An empirical case of lecture recordings
In education, research on student engagement is neither new nor original. However, student engagement with various digital learning technologies continues to be a central and complex phenomenon, since higher education ... -
Teaching analytics and teacher dashboards to visualise SET data: Implication to theory and practice
Teaching Analytics (TA) is an emergent theoretical approach that combines teaching expertise, visual analytics, and design-based research to support teachers' diagnostic pedagogical ability to use data as evidence to improve ... -
Making meaning: Informal craft communities as sites of learning and identity development
Situated in the field of adult learning, this thesis examines why individuals choose to engage in non-credentialed learning outside of formal education institutions, and explores how the individual’s sense of self is ... -
OMS Health Professions Education Research Group Online Symposium 2021 Announcement
In 2021, the Otago Medical School - Health Professions Education Research Symposium will focus on fostering collaborative conversations about foundational knowledge, skills, and perspectives for conducting education research ... -
Inside-Out? Discussions in Research Librarianship
Libraries are continually evolving to support the processes of academic and other research, which increasingly involves use of technology and occurs in digital environments. Does this “inside-out library” signal a need for ... -
Mining reality to explore the 21st century student experience
Understanding student experience is a key aspect of higher education research. To date, the dominant methods for advancing this area have been the use of surveys and interviews, methods that typically rely on post-event ... -
Malaysian women's narratives of navigating careers following international study in New Zealand
This thesis presents a narrative study that explored 14 Malaysian women’s narratives of navigating careers in Malaysia following international study in New Zealand. The women were part of a Twinned In-Service Teacher ... -
Making sense of flipping data
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to detail the approach used in a project that worked with journal publication, subscription and article processing charges (APC) data. The project aim was to test if the resources ... -
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 ... -
Improving Students’ Assessment and Evaluation Experience in Higher Education: A Formative Peer Review Perspective
This thesis is about student peer review in undergraduate education. The research uses a case study of the Ecology programme at the University of Otago, New Zealand, to gain insight into this phenomenon. Ecology at Otago ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The impact of globalisation on an emerging university in Tanzania, East Africa
This thesis presents a case study of a new and emerging university in the Global South. It seeks to understand the university’s practices and how globalisation has impacted on staff, students and management of the university. ... -
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 ... -
Adding up the Flipped Subscription Model
One of the common pathways proposed to achieving a global open access scholarly publishing model is the “flipped” approach. In this scenario, journal publishers “flip” their pricing model from subscription to gold open ... -
Open Access at the University of Otago: what do we know?
Three out of five research outputs by Otago authors in 2017 are behind paywalls as of June 2019. Of the 868 articles that are behind a paywall, 84% of these could be deposited legally in a non-commercial repository to make ...