PJTEL Editorial 2019-2021

Keywords: Altmetrics, Technology Enhanced Learning, Impact

Abstract

In this first editorial for the Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, PJTEL, the lead editors reflect upon the first three years of the journal and explore the impact statistics. We also explore future directions and themes for the journal particularly in light of the impact of COVID19 on education.

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Author Biography

Thomas Cochrane, MCSHE, The University of Melbourne

Dr Thomas Cochrane is an Associate Professor, Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education, in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of Melbourne. In 2011 he was awarded as an ASCILITE Fellow http://www.ascilite.org.au/index.php?p=awards. His research interests include mobile learning, web 2.0, communities of practice, and the scholarship of technology enhanced learning (SOTEL). His PHD thesis was titled: "Mobilizing Learning: Transforming pedagogy with mobile web 2.0". Thomas has managed and implemented over 50 mobile learning projects, with a recent focus upon Android and iOS smartphones and the iPad as catalysts to enable student-generated content and student-generated learning contexts, bridging formal and informal learning environments. Thomas has a peer-reviewed research portfolio spanning over 50 journal articles, 32 book chapters, and over 140 conference proceedings (http://goo.gl/maps/YxkYP), receiving best paper awards at ASCILITE 2009, ALT-C 2011, ALT-C 2012, and IEEE-TALE2018. He has been invited to keynote at several international educational technology conferences including: the 2012 Australian Moodle Moot, the 2012 m-Libraries conference in the UK, the launch of UWS massive iPad project in February 2013, the 2014 IBSA VET Practitioners Conference in Melbourne, and an invited speaker at EdMedia2014 (Tampere, Finland), and an Educator In Residence at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Coventry University in September 2015. Thomas was co-principle investigator in the two-year AKO Aotearoa funded #NPF14LMD Learners and Mobile Devices project that scaffolded and showcased best practice across six New Zealand higher education institutions. Thomas was an invited keynote at the University of Western Australia’s Mlearning Summit in September 2016. In 2017 he was a member of the team winning the AUT Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence, Teaching Innovation Award. In 2017 he established the #SOTELNZ Research Cluster https://SOTEL.nz. In 2018 he was elected to the ASCILITE Executive, and became one of the first accredited Senior CMALT holders in 2018. In 2018 he co-established with Dr Vickel Narayan the annual SOTEL Symposium, and the Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (PJTEL) https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pjtel/index.php/pjtel/index .

Thomas is an AJET Associate Editor, an editorial board member of RLT, BJET, and IJMBL, a lead editor of PJTEL, lead guest editor of the special collection on Mobile Mixed Reality for the Research In Learning Technology journal, and the coordinator of the ASCILITE Mobile Learning Special Interest Group. He is a regular reviewer for a number of educational technology journals including: AJET, CHB, IJMBL, JCHE, C&E, and IEEEAccess.

Published
2022-02-02
How to Cite
Cochrane, T., Narayan, V., & Sissons, H. (2022). PJTEL Editorial 2019-2021. Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 4(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjtel.v4i2.145