Staff of the UTDC

Dr Stephen Marshall, Senior Lecturer Educational technology support, strategy and policy development Phone : 463 5205 Email : Stephen.Marshall@vuw.ac.nz Room : 10WTA 105

Other Information

You can find other information on me at my personal home page and my Blog.

Responsibilities and Professional Activities

Stephen is responsible for assisting staff with the effective use of technology in the delivery of learning and teaching. This includes working to ensure that the University has strategies and policies in place that support flexible delivery using technology. Stephen also teaches on the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Learning and Teaching (PHELT) programme, and occasionally teaches in the School of Information Management and the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.

Professional Activities

• Executive Member, Australasian Council for Open and Distance Education (2008-)
• Invited member of the IMS Learning Technology Advisory Council. (2008-)
• Invited member of the advisory board for the 2010 Australian/New Zealand Horizon project (2010)
• Invited member of the New Zealand Ministry of Education Tertiary e-Learning Reference Group. (2005-2010)
• Australian Universities Quality Assurance Auditor. (2008-)
• Invited member of the Ako Aotearoa Central Hub Advisory Group. (2008-)
• Chair of the New Zealand University E-Learning Directors Group. (2005-2009)
• ITP Quality Auditor. (2006-2009)
• Invited member of the New Zealand Ministry of Education Tertiary e-Learning Research Fund selection panel. (2007-2010)
• Board Member, Elearnz New Zealand Consortium for E-Learning (2006-2010)

Background

Stephen's PhD is in Biochemistry and he has held a number of technical and computer support roles prior to his appointment at the UTDC. He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Science (Computer Science).

Research Interests

Stephen's research is aimed at informing his work for the University and is currently dominated by the e-learning Maturity Model research aimed at measuring and improving the quality of e-learning (http://www.utdc.vuw.ac.nz/research/emm/index.shtml). He also researches in the areas of intellectual property, including plagiarism and copyright, as they impact on academic work, and mobile computing.

Successful Research Grants

Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund 2010
$149,848
Graduate Outcomes - Are They Driving Learning? And Who Knows About Them? (Member of project team)

Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund 2009
$94,770
E-learning and higher education: Understanding and supporting organisational change in New Zealand (Project lead)

New Zealand TEC Innovation Development Fund 2007
$33,500.00
Implementation of e-learning guidelines on intellectual property and copyright

New Zealand Ministry of Education Tertiary E-Learning Research Fund 2005
$89,219.00
New Zealand Tertiary Institution E-Learning Capability: Informing and Guiding E-Learning Architectural Change and Development

New Zealand Ministry of Education Tertiary E-Learning Research Fund 2004
$87,928.00
Determination of New Zealand Tertiary Institution E-Learning Capability: An Application of an E-Learning Maturity Model

Victoria University of Wellington University Research Fund 2003
$5000.00
Application of process maturity models to tertiary teaching organization and development of e-learning resources

Some recent Publications

Marshall, S. (Paper accepted with revisions). Why the Future May Not be Different. On the Horizon.

Marshall, S. (Paper accepted with revisions). An exploration of student workload: A case study of a verification of the match between expectations and reality. Higher Education Research and Development.

Marshall, S. (In press). The relationship between engagement, student preparation for study and employment. In A. Radloff and H. Coates (Eds) The New Zealand Student Engagement Report. Wellington, New Zealand: ACER and Ako Aotearoa.

Marshall, S. (2011). Improving the quality of e-learning: Lessons from the eMM. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00443.x. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00443.x/abstract

Marshall, S. (2011). Change, technology and higher education: Are universities capable of organisational change? Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 26(8). http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet26/marshall.pdf [Republished version of the paper published in ALT-J]

Marshall, S. (2010). Change, technology and higher education: Are universities capable of organisational change? ALT-J Research in Learning Technology 18(3):179-192. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09687769.2010.529107

Marshall, S. (2010). E-learning Standards: Beyond technical standards to guides for professional practice. In F. Lazainis, S. Green and E. Pearson (Eds) Handbook of Research on E-Learning Standards and Interoperability: Frameworks and Issues. Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global. pp:170-192.

Marshall, S. (2010). A Quality Framework for Continuous Improvement of E-Learning: The E-Learning Maturity Model. Journal of Distance Education 24(1):143-166. http://www.jofde.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/606/1030

Scornavacca, E., Huff, S. and Marshall (2009). Mobile Phones in the Classroom: if you can't beat them, join them. Communications of ACM (accepted for publication April)

Marshall, S. (2009). Copyright with an international perspective for academics. In Rogers, P.L., Berg, G. A., Boettcher, J.V., Howard, C., Justice, L. and Schenk, K.(eds) Encyclopedia of Distance and Online Learning, 2nd Edition, Idea Group, Hershey, PA, USA. pp:464-479.

Beames, S., Mitchell, G. and Marshall, S. (2009). Using the e-Learning Maturity Model to Benchmark Institutional Learning and Teaching Plans and Capabilities. Paper accepted for the 2009 Educause in Australasia Conference, Perth, Australia, 3rd - 6th May.

Marshall, S. (2008). Copyright policy issues facing tertiary institutions engaged in e-learning. In Proceedings of the 25th annual conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE). Melbourne, Australia, 30th November - 3rd December.

Pickar, G. and Marshall, S. (2008). Developing Best Practices for Prospective and New Student Introduction to E-Learning. In Proceedings of the 25th annual conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE). Melbourne, Australia, 30th November - 3rd December.

Marshall, S. J. (2008). What are the key factors that lead to effective adoption and support of e-learning by institutions? In Proceedings of HERDSA 2008 (Rotorua, New Zealand, HERDSA).

Marshall, S. (2008). Worlds in collision: Copyright, Technology, and Education. Innovate 4 (5). http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=528

Scornavacca, E., Huff, S. and Marshall, S. (2008). Understanding the Value of Interactive SMS for large classes. In Hokyoung, R. and Parsons, D. (eds.) Innovative Mobile Learning. Idea Group Publishing, Hershey PA, USA. (in press)

Marshall, S.J. and Mitchell, G. (2007). Benchmarking International E-learning Capability with the E-Learning Maturity Model. In Proceedings of EDUCAUSE in Australasia 2007, 29 April - 2 May 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.caudit.edu.au/educauseaustralasia07/authors_papers/Marshall-103.pdf

Scornavacca, E., Huff, S. and Marshall, S. (2007). Developing a SMS-based classroom interaction system. In Proceedings of the Conference on Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications, 19 February 2007, Auckland, New Zealand. http://molta.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms//Molta/Scornavacca.pdf

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