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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 ...
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 ...
An Anatomy of Feedback - A phenomenographic investigation into undergraduate students' experiences of feedback
Feedback is considered to be a fundamental part of the learning process and is a critical link that connects students’ and teachers’ activities. However, definitions of feedback in the higher education literature are ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Design Academics' Experiences Of Design Practice And Teaching
My thesis explores design academics’ qualitatively different experiences of design practice and teaching, and the relationship between the two. Past studies investigating the phenomenon of teaching have reported a hierarchy ...
The Role/Importance of Personal Computers to Support Learning in Higher Education
Background: This scoping study examines the degree to which students use their personal computers to support their undergraduate academic practice in their daily study habits.
Methods: Three data sources were used in ...
Perceptions and benefits of, and barriers to, degree-based education for massage therapy
Within New Zealand, the practice of massage therapy for health and wellness is part of the growing complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) industry and is a popular treatment for a wide range of health conditions. ...