Rob Phillips

Senior Lecturer - Educational Development (TLC)

Website

http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/staff/phillips/homepage.html

Research Theme

1. Technology enhanced learning

Research Interests

1. University policy issues
2. Evaluation of learning using ICT
3. Learning objects and content management
4. Making creative and innovative use of technology
5. Project management in ICT developments

Projects

1. Enhancing the Student Educational Experience through School-based Curriculum Improvement Leaders (Funded by the Carrick Institute grant for Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, year?).
2. The Impact of Web-based Lecture Technologies on Current and Future Practice in Learning and Teaching (Funded by the Carrick Institute grant for Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, year?).
3. Staff Development in Evaluation of Technology-based Teaching Development Projects: An Action Inquiry Approach (Funded by a Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development grant with ASCILITE and a consortium of 11 universities, year?)
4. Professional Partnerships in Developing Teachers as Critical Users of Information and Communications Technology (Funded by the Research Excellence Grants Scheme, Murdoch University, 2005)

 
Publications

1. Edwards, D., Rai, S., Phillips, R., Fung, L. (2007). A Framework for Interoperable Learning Objects for E-Learning. In Koohang, A. & Harman, K. (Eds.), Learning Objects and Instructional Design (pp. 437-470). Santa Rosa, California: Informing Science Press.
2. Phillips, R. A., Rai, S., Sudweeks, F., Gururajan, R., Jones, M., Shiers, D., & O'Neil, R. (2005). Use and Usability of Learning Objects within the COLIS Demonstrator Framework. In J. Dalziel & R. Philip & J. Clare (Eds.), The COLIS Project (in press). Sydney: The Macquarie University E-Learning Centre of Excellence. [Online] Available at: http://www.colis.mq.edu.au/COLIS_CD/content_book/COLIS_V02_050830_CD.pdf
3. Schibeci, R., Lake, D., Phillips, R. A., Lowe, K., Cummings, R., & Miller, E. (2007). Evaluating the use of learning objects in Australian and New Zealand schools. Computers & Education, 50(1), 271-283.
4. Cummings, R., Phillips, R., Lowe, K., & Tilbrook, R. (2005). Middle-Out Approaches to University Reform: Champions Striding between the Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 6(1). [Online] Available at: http://www.irrodl.org/content/v6.1/cummings.html
5. Phillips, R. A. (2005). Challenging the Primacy of Lectures: the Dissonance between Theory and Practice in University Teaching. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2(1), 1. [Online] Available at:
6. http://jutlp.uow.edu.au/2005_v02_i01/phillips003.html

Contact Details

r.phillips@murdoch.edu.au