User:Robert Fitzgerald

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Bio

Dr Robert Fitzgerald is a Research Fellow at the University of Canberra. His research and consultancy work explores the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in learning particularly as it relates to ICT integration, information literacy and building online communities. His current work involves the application of social software and web2.0 technologies to the development of collaborative systems for research and learning. His funded projects, Developing Digital Learning Communities with Social Software(Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education) and Using SMS to Develop an Electronic Marketing Communication System in Cambodia (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research), are leading-edge projects attracting international interest and involvement.

Representative Publications

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2007). Open source learning: Wikis as an exemplary model of collaboration and knowledge creation. Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic and Social Perspectives. Edited by Kirk St. Amant and Brian Still, Texas Tech University. PA: IGI Global. ISBN: 9781591409991.
• Fitzgerald, R.N. (To be published January 2008). Advancing professional learning with collaborative technologies. Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration. Edited by Lawrence A. Tomei, Robert Morris University. To be published by IGI Global in Spring 2007.
• Moyle, K.M. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (Accepted August 2007). Electronic focus groups. Handbook of digital information technologies: innovations and ethical issues. Edited by Thomas Hansson, University of Southern Denmark. To be published by IGI Global in Spring 2007.
• Fitzgerald, R.N. & Findlay, J. (Accepted April 2007). Team learning systems as a collaborative technology for rapid knowledge creation. Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies. Frederic Adams & Patrick Humphreys (Eds), To be published by IGI Global in Spring 2007.
• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2007). A longitudinal study of the use of Integrated Learning Systems (ILS) in the areas of mathematics and reading in selected Australian primary schools. To appear in the Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
• Telford, R.D.; Bass, S.L.; Budge, M.M.; Byrne, D.G.; Carlson, J.S.; Coles, D; Cunningham, R.B.; Daly, R.M.; Dunstan, D.W.; English, R; Fitzgerald, R.N.; et al (Accepted April 2007). The lifestyle of our kids (LOOK) project: Outline of methods. Australian Journal of Sports Science and Medicine.
• Findlay, J. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2006). Rich design: Engaging students as capable designers and co-creators in auto-catalytic learning contexts. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2006 (pp. 500-506). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
• Fitzgerald, R.N. (Accepted June 2006). The accidental principal. In P. Duignan & D. Gurr (Eds.). Leading Australia’s Schools. A joint Department of Education, Science and Training and Australian Council of Educational Leadership publication.
• Kennedy, D. M., Fitzgerald, R.N. & Lee, K. T. (2005). Enacting government IT in education policy: Designing modules for teacher education in Hong Kong. Journal of APEC Studies, 6, 1, 17-38.
• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2005). Understanding informal learning with technology: Insights for ICT integration. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 948-954). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
• Fitzgerald, R.N., Findlay, J., Forster, A., & Newman, L. (2005). Learner as designer: exploring a collaborative model of instructional design, In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 3872-3878). Norfolk, VA: AACE.
• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2004). ICT: Challenges for creative learning. New Horizons in Education, 50, 16-23.
• Fitzgerald, D & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2002). The use of Integrated Learning Systems in developing number and language concepts in primary school children: A longitudinal study of individual differences. DETYA Literacy Program Grants for National Strategies. Research Monograph. DEST Clearinghouse: Griffith University. [Online http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/school_education/publications_resources].
• Gibbons, P., Crawford, K., Crichton, S. & Fitzgerald, R. N. (2000). Cognitive development in ICT contexts. In D. Watson and T. Downes (Eds) Communications & Networking in Education: Learning in a Networked Society, pp. 221-230, Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN0792377605.
• Shopen, G. & Liddicoat, A. J. & Fitzgerald, R. N. (1999). Meeting the challenge: Supporting partnerships between home and school in the middle years. Australian Government Quality Teacher Program Project. Department Education, Science and Training. Canberra, Research monograph, ACT SPELL Project/ACT Department Education & Training, ISBN0958638624.
• Fitzgerald, R.N. & Waywood, A. (1996). Internet and teaching and learning. In P. Clarkson and R. Toomey (Eds), Computers across the secondary curriculum: A review of research, Melbourne: Deakin University Press, ISBN0646299034.