Rose Heaney: Learning Technology Advisor

Location: AE.5.30, Stratford
Telephone ext: 4026
email: r.heaney@uel.ac.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/romieh
Delicious: http://delicious/romieh
Blog: http://blog.uelconnect.org.uk/rose

About me

Although a modern language graduate, I started my working life as a computer programmer and over the years have gradually shifted from technical to much more educationally focused roles in the private and public sectors. I am a relative newcomer to the formal education sector having been at UEL since 2004 although prior to that I was an associate lecturer at the Open University and also spent some time in adult education.

As a Learning Technology Advisor (LTA) for UELconnect, I support staff in the schools of Health & Bioscience and Psychology in their use of UEL Plus (Blackboard Vista) and other learning technologies. Current areas of interest include: virtual worlds such as Second Life in clinical education; multimedia to support blended learning students; formative e-assessment to increase engagement; social networking tools such as ELGG, Twitter, Yammer to increase staff-student interaction; Mahara as an e-portfolio tool.

In the fast paced environment of learning technology I believe it's very important to keep as widely informed as possible so I participate actively in external networks, such as the M25 Learning Technology group of which I am a moderator, as well as conferences and other events. I was awarded a UEL Teaching Fellowship in 2010 as part of which I am researching staff perceptions of learning technologies with a particular focus on the use of Second Life.

Recent publications et al:

Heaney, Rose, Vrede-Shevonna Timmins, Paula Booth and Joe Dawes (2010). Student Perceptions of a Second Life  Virtual Patient to Complement More Traditional Forms of Clinical Education. ECEL2010, Porto, Portugal, November 2010

Heaney, Rose and Arroll, Megan (2010) A qualitative study of staff perceptions of Second Life as an effective environment for learning and teaching In ALT-C 2010, 6-9 September 2010, University of Nottingham. (Unpublished)

Heaney, R. and Dawes, J. (2010) Implementing a manageable Second Life Virtual Patient System. The Fifth International Blended Learning Conference "Developing Blended Learning Communities" (Hertfordshire, UK. June 2010). http://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/learning-and-teaching/learning-teaching-institute/conferences/blended-learning-conference-2010/home.cfm

Cobb, S., Heaney, R., Corcoran, O. & Henderson-Begg, S. (2010). Using mobile phones to increase classroom interaction. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. 19 (2), pp. 147-157. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Paula Booth, Elizabeth Kebede-Westhead, Rose Heaney and Stephanie Henderson-Begg (2010) A Pilot Evaluation of an Online Tool Designed to Aid Development of Basic Laboratory Skills, Bioscience Education, 15-c3 available at http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol15/beej-15-c3.aspx

National Workshop on Learning in Immersive Worlds, Coventry, 11th November 2009 Taking the pain out of virtual patient creation Rose Heaney http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/lievents/nw09/materials/simulations/

Cobb, S., Heaney, R., Corcoran, O. & Henderson-Begg, S.K. (2009) The Learning Gains and Student Perceptions of a Second Life Virtual Lab, Bioscience Education 13, http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol13/beej-13-5.pdf

Heaney, R. (2009) Studying herbal medicine: from correspondence course to virtual world polyclinic. 8th European Conference on e-Learning (Bari, Italy October 2009)
http://www.academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2010/ecel09-proceedings.htm

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