Session Descriptions

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Presentation Authors
Stream: Adult, Vocational, Tertiary and Professional Learning
Analysing Student Perceptions of Knowledge Skills via Undergraduate Degree Programmes Pala, Asst. Prof. A.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Gender Issues in Professional Continuing Education Programmes in Nigeria Odeyemi, Janet Olajumoke
30 minute Paper Presentation
Motivation for Participation and Resilience of Non-Traditional Adult Students Jean Francois, Emmanuel
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Creative Arts and Learning
Embracing Creativity and Empowering Student Learning in the Performance-based Music Curriculum King, Dr. Gerald
30 minute Paper Presentation
Colour, Space and Environment: An Investigation of Repetition through the Aestheticisation of Consumer Culture Sedon @ M. Dom, Dr. Mohd Fauzi
30 minute Paper Presentation
Artists as Travelers in Landscapes of Memory and Time: Researching Ideas of Self through Personal Narratives of Text and Imagery Flood, Dr Adele
30 minute Paper Presentation
Interdisciplinary Approach to Construct Identity and Alterity in Literature, Film and Culture: Arts and the Otherness Szekely, Dr. Eva Monica
30 minute Paper Presentation
Visual Thinking in Art Education: An Invitation to Visual Creative Teaching and Learning Approach Omar, Jamilah
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Possibilities for Healing and Reparation in Autobiographical Narratives Knight, Rasata
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Curriculum and Pedagogy; Student Learning, Learner Experiences, Learner Diversity
Futuristic Schools: “Little Red Dot” Strategies in a Globalised Economy Chua, Siew Kheng Catherine
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Effects of Teaching Third-Grade Students Graphic Organizers as a Reading Comprehension Strategy for Social Studies Texts Fealy, Erin
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Under Represented Student-Athlete Identity in a Diverse Socio-Academic Learning Community Setting
  1. Anekwe, Dr. Obiora
  2. Reames, Dr. Ellen
30 minute Paper Presentation
School Readiness: A Model for Malaysian Preschool Children Abu Bakar, Dr. Zainudin
30 minute Paper Presentation
First Language Inteference: Malay Students’ Experience in Learning English M.Noor, Siti Noor Fazelah
30 minute Paper Presentation
Audio/Visual Feedback and the Impact on Student Learning, Engagement and Assessment
  1. Yellowley, Wendy
  2. Farmer, Marilyn
  3. Walters, Jill
30 minute Paper Presentation
Emotional Intelligence and Professional Education: The Use of Narrative Journaling Smith, Dr. James
30 minute Paper Presentation
Students’ Attitudes towards the Use of Blackboard Technology in Introductory Computer Science Courses Faquir, Sanaa
30 minute Paper Presentation
Investigating Ctitical Thinking Skills Practices in Qatari Elementary Schools Semmar, Dr. Yassir
30 minute Paper Presentation
Cognitive Apprenticeship in Action: Graduate Students Learn how to Conduct Performance Systems Analysis Darabi, Dr. Aubteen
30 minute Paper Presentation
Nurses as Facilitator(s) of Web Based Delivery of Health Education: Weight Management Hatcher, Dr. Myron
Virtual Presentation
The Role of Symbolic Graphics on Autonomous Learning of Abstract Concepts in Beginning EFLers’ Classrooms
  1. Mazandarani, Omid
  2. Hassani, Gholam Reza
30 minute Paper Presentation
Connecting Modern Medicine with Medieval Humanism: Watching Cristi Puiu’s “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” through the Lens of Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy” Bonk, Dr. Robert J.
30 minute Paper Presentation
‘Getting in, Getting through and Getting out’: Student Persistence and Retention among Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Students in Higher Level Education Feeney, Angela
30 minute Paper Presentation
El Conocimiento de los estilos de aprendizaje: Punto de partida obligado para la enseñanza de las ciencias Sociales, en general, y de la Sociología de la Educación, en particular Magaña Pastrana, Maestra Laura
30 minute Paper Presentation
Are They Getting it? Exploring Intersubjectivity between Teachers and Immigrant Students in Three Culturally Diverse Fifth-grade Classrooms Strickland, Dr. Martha
30 minute Paper Presentation
"Donald, Where's Yer Troosers?": A Hybridized, Bifurcated, Ubiquitous, and Audacious Constructivist Online Waggoner, Dr. Charles
30 minute Paper Presentation
Self-Esteem and Academic Achievement Bayani, Prof Ali Asghar
30 minute Paper Presentation
Problems and Stress among Foreign Students in an International Campus Lee, Yoong Hon
30 minute Paper Presentation
Let’s Work Together: Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in Enhancing ESL Writing
  1. Stapa, Dr. Siti Hamin
  2. Rajamoney, Maureen Shyamala
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Adolescent Students' Views of Factors Affecting Their Learning Mornane, Angela
30 minute Paper Presentation
Strategies and Secrets for Effective Tertiary Study: Reading, Understanding, and Learning in the Academic Setting
  1. Wegner, Dr. Ali
  2. Bartlett, Assoc Prof. Brendan
30 minute Paper Presentation
Learning for Teaching: Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of their Preparedness to Teach in the Middle School Context Hudson, Suzanne Margaret
30 minute Paper Presentation
Education as Initiation to a Form of Life: Conceptual Investigation and Education Theory Gasparatou, Dr. Zacharoula Renia
Virtual Presentation
Enhancing ESL Reading Performance of Tertiary Level Students Tengku Mohamad Maasum, Dr Tengku Nor Rizan
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Educational Leadership and Management
Computer Competencies for Registered Nurses: Curricular Elements in Nursing Programs in the USA
  1. Mueller, Dr. Dale
  2. Mueller, Tanya
30 minute Paper Presentation
Leadership Coaching for Higher Education Administrators: Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence Hills, Laura
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Performance Measurement of State Secondary Schools of New Zealand: The Teachers’ Perspective
  1. Malik, Arshad Ashfaque
  2. Davey, Dr. Howard
30 minute Paper Presentation
Social Justice Educational Leaders: Case Studies Michalak, Dr. Joanna Maria
30 minute Paper Presentation
Total Quality Management Implementation in UK and Cyprus Distance Education Institutes: A Comparative Study
  1. Silman, Fatos
  2. Altinay Gazi, Zehra
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Aligned Organization: Linking Learning Strategies to Organizational Priorities Cole, Melissa
60 minute Workshop Presentation
School-Based Instructional Supervision for Effective Professional Development of Teachers Tyagi, Dr. Rajvir Singh
30 minute Paper Presentation
Living Local, Thinking Global: Creating and Sustaining Pedagogies
  1. Veel, Liz
  2. Bredhauer, Maree
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Stream: Equity, Social Justice and Social Change; Community, Culture, Globalisation
Examining Socio-economic Mobility: Education, Occupation and Status of Women among the Shias of Lucknow, India Yadav, Sarvendra
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stumbling upon Freire’s Culture Circles: From Teaching through Dialogue to the Creation of Shared Learning Spaces
  1. Sweeney, Brian
  2. Sweeney, Ann Joselynn
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Race is for the Swift: An Ethnographic Study of the School Lives of High Achieving African American Female Middle School Students Johnson, Dr. Donna
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Maori Education Strategy for the 21st Century
  1. Douglas, Edward Te Kohu
  2. Hopa, Dr. Ngapare Kaihina
30 minute Paper Presentation
South Asian Girls Telling Stories: First Hand Accounts of South Asian Adolescent Girls in UK Secondary Schools
  1. Ludhra, Geeta
  2. Jones, Dr. Deborah
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Construction of Life Stories using Five Biographical Narrative Techniques: Other Ways of Researching the Social Exclusion in Young Persons
  1. Lazaro, Dr. Susana
  2. Susinos, Dr. Teresa
  3. Rojas, Dr. Susana
30 minute Paper Presentation
Volunteer Teaching in Kenya: The Inspiring, Challenging and Foreign Experience of a Westerner Farndale, Amy Catherine
30 minute Paper Presentation
Social Justice in the Elementary School Classroom: Teachers Who Help Diverse Student Populations Succeed Gieselmann, Dr. Sharon
30 minute Paper Presentation
Evaluation, Marks and Marginalisation Andreasen, Dr. S. Karen
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Literacy, Language, Multiliteracies; Languages Education and Second Language Learning
All for the Diploma: The Washback of Graduation Requirements on EFL Learning Pan, Yi-Ching
30 minute Paper Presentation
Adult English Language Acquisition: English as a Second Language
  1. Rocha, Priscilla
  2. Vargas, Esther
  3. Ramirez, Manuel
60 minute Workshop Presentation
The Evaluation of an Approach to Teaching Critical Reading Dalton, David Francis Michael
30 minute Paper Presentation
An Action Research Investigatin of the Use of Short Stories in a Junior Secondary English Classroom Yang, Chi Cheung Ruby
30 minute Paper Presentation
Relationship between Listening Styles and EFL Listening Proficiency Teng, Dr. Huei-Chun
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Learning Process of Becoming: A Case Study of the Future of Foreign Language Learning at a University in Taiwan Shih, Dr. Hsuehching
30 minute Paper Presentation
Developing First-year ESL Engineering Students’ Communication and Learning Skills Through ‘Metacognitive Moments’ Brandt, Dr. Caroline
30 minute Paper Presentation
Managing Effective and Efficient Learning in the Context of Transnational Education: A Case Study of the English Teaching Reforms in a Sino-australian Joint Education Program Ding, Prof. Lijun
30 minute Paper Presentation
Multimodality, Language Learning and the Linguistic Landscape
  1. Cenoz, Dr. Jasone
  2. Gorter, Dr. Durk
30 minute Paper Presentation
Empower EFL Students through Critical Thinking-Based EFL Lessons Jantrasakul, Dr. Prapai
30 minute Paper Presentation
Humorous Texts in Japanese Language Pedagogy: An Intercultural Language Learning Approach
  1. Katayama, Dr. Hanae
  2. Bryce, Dr. Mio
Virtual Presentation
Language Teaching in the South Sulawesi Boarding School Classroom: A Multicultural Approach
  1. Ismail, Suardi Wekke
  2. Maimun, Dr. Aqsha Lubis
30 minute Paper Presentation
Encouraging Alphabet and Phonological Awareness in the ECE Setting: What Role Do Teachers Play?
  1. McLachlan, Assoc Prof Claire
  2. Arrow, Dr Alison
30 minute Paper Presentation
Speaking: To Assess or Not to Assess? Etiz, Filiz
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Critical Look on the Teacher's Theoretical Perspective: Implications for Reflective Pre-service Training Ravelo, Vengie
30 minute Paper Presentation
Language Study Abroad: Expectations and Experiences Brown, Jill
30 minute Paper Presentation
Foreign Language Reading Anxiety: Proficiency and Gender Ipek, Hulya
30 minute Paper Presentation
Guessing-Words-In-Context Strategies Used by Beginning and Upper-Intermediate Level EFL Students Kanatlar, Dr. Muge
30 minute Paper Presentation
Preschool Children's Use of Photography to Document Their Out-of-School Literacy Practices and Partners Streelasky, Jodi
30 minute Paper Presentation
E-Literacy Development and Practices among Rural Youth in Malaysia
  1. Tengku Mohamad Maasum, Dr Tengku Nor Rizan
  2. Azman, Assoc Prof Hazita
  3. Stapa, Assoc Prof Dr. Siti Hamin
  4. Mustafa, Dr Jamilah
  5. Amir, Dr Zaini
  6. Ibrahim, Kalthum
  7. Ahmad Zabidi, Noraza
  8. Md Yusof, Norwati
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Effects of Prep Listening Classes on the Frequency of Use of Listening Comprehension Strategy Gercek, Funda
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Organisational Learning, Organisational Change
Using Contrasting Learning Cultures of Training Programme and Workplace: Opportunities and Constraints on Learning
  1. Dixon, Dr. Christopher
  2. Brandt, Dr. Caroline
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Performance of an e-Learning Organization as a Learning Organization: A Case of Higher Education in Cyprus
  1. Silman, Fatos
  2. Aksal, Fahriye Altinay
  3. Birol, Cem
30 minute Paper Presentation
Targeting Innovativeness through Informal Learning: The Experience of Lithuanian SMEs
  1. Alonderiene, Raimonda
  2. Pundziene, Dr. Asta
30 minute Paper Presentation
Schools as 'Learning Communities' Das, Dr. Sharmistha
30 minute Paper Presentation
Transformational Governance: Empowering Organisations through Deliberative Democracy Joyce, Pauline
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Special Education, Learning Difficulties, Disability
The Peer Based Mechanisms of Inclusion Developed by SEBD Students Fovet, Frederic
30 minute Paper Presentation
How to Asses Dyslexia? Assessing Learning in Portuguese Normal Readers and Dyslexic Children
  1. Carvalhais, Lénia
  2. Silva, Prof. Carlos Fernandes
30 minute Paper Presentation
“It’s Easier Working with People Who Are Not Like Me”: The Use of Biographical-Narrative Methodology in Situations of Maximum Communication Difficulty
  1. Rojas, Dr. Susana
  2. Susinos, Dr. Teresa
  3. Lazaro, Dr. Susana
30 minute Paper Presentation
A "Visible" Woman: How a Learning Community Formed around a Deaf-Blind University Student, and What We Learned Chanock, Dr. Caroline (Kate)
30 minute Paper Presentation
Basic Competences and Work with Disabled People: Training Needs
  1. Sanahuja, Josep M.
  2. Mas, Oscar
  3. Jurado, Pedro
  4. Ferrández, Elena
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Teacher Training and Professional Development
The Evolving Leader, Teacher, and Action Researcher Ryan, Dr. Thomas
30 minute Paper Presentation
Training Community-involved Teachers
  1. Yogev, Dr. Esther
  2. Michaeli, Dr. Nir
30 minute Paper Presentation
Correlates of Teacher Education Students’ Academic Performance in an Educational Measurement Course Alkharusi, Dr. Hussain Ali
30 minute Paper Presentation
Gleaning Feedback: A Look at how Secondary English Teachers Learn to Assess Writing Beaton, Anne M.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Adult Education Philosophies Guiding Educational Theory and Practice: The Case of Greek Primary Education Teacher Counselors Gioti, Labrina
30 minute Paper Presentation
Turkish Preservice and In-Service Teachers’ Beliefs about Inquiry
  1. Kazempour, Mahsa
  2. Amirshokoohi, Aidin
  3. Colak, Huseyin
30 minute Paper Presentation
Reflectivity in Pre-Service Teacher Education: A Bakhtinian Approach Sela, Dr. Orly
30 minute Paper Presentation
Successful Strategies Used by Non-Native English-Speaking Teacherss in the EFL Classroom
  1. Tatar, Sibel
  2. Yildiz, Senem
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Role of an Instructor: More than Meets the Eye Chuah, C. K. Peter
30 minute Paper Presentation
A Comparative Analysis of Inclusion Practices in the United States and the Republic of Ireland: An International, Interdisciplinary Perspective of Teacher Training
  1. Tyminski, Dr. Carroll
  2. Coyle, Dr. H. Elizabeth
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Developing and Enriching Practical Knowledge: Reflection Pieces in the Pre-Service Intermediate English Course McIntosh, Dr. Janet E.
30 minute Paper Presentation
Graduate Students as Consultants: Implementing Alternative Teaching Approaches through Collaborative Partnerships
  1. Laflamme, Elaine
  2. Saroyan, Dr Alenoush
30 minute Paper Presentation
The Inner Creative Thinking Blockages of a Group of Malaysian Student Teachers Chua, Dr. Yan Piaw
30 minute Paper Presentation
Mentoring Preservice Teachers in Primary Mathematics Hudson, Dr. Peter
30 minute Paper Presentation
An Examination of Pre-Service Teacher Preparedness: A Cooperating Teacher Perspective Al-Bataineh, Dr. Adel
30 minute Paper Presentation
Colombian Pre-Service English Teachers' Beliefs about Discipline
  1. Arellano, Danilza Lorduy
  2. Rivera, Jose David Herazo
30 minute Paper Presentation
Développement professionnel: Le développement professionnel des professeurs grecs lié à l'usage du portfolio Varsamidou, Athéna
30 minute Paper Presentation
Stream: Technology in Learning; Maths, Science and Technology Learning
The Effects of Educational Technology on Dyslexic Students’ Learning of Polygons Küçük, Hasan
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Leading the Development of a Knowledge-economy: The Role of Web-based Educational Technology
  1. Randeree, Dr. Kasim
  2. Narwani, Anjli
Virtual Presentation
New Spaces, New Tools, New Roles: Two Case Studies on the Impact of Open Educational Resources Ferreira, Giselle Martins dos Santos
30 minute Paper Presentation
Barriers to the Integration of Technology to Support More Learner Centered, Constructivist Teaching Approaches
  1. Yildiz, Senem
  2. Tatar, Sibel
30 minute Paper Presentation
Universal Design Procedures for Teaching Mathematical Word Problem Solving Staulters, Dr. Mimi
60 minute Workshop Presentation
Classrooms with Electronic Walls: An Emerging Collaborative Teaching Learning System for Effective Distance Education in Nigeria Oladipo, Onaolapo Francisca
30 minute Paper Presentation
Evolution of a Campus-Wide Intranet Virtual Classroom: The Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Experience
  1. Oladipo, Onaolapo Francisca
  2. Alade, TAI
30 minute Paper Presentation