Margot Duncan

Autoethnography: Critical Appreciation of an Emerging Art:

In this article, the author discusses how she applied autoethnography in a study of the design of hypermedia educational resources and shows how she addressed problematic issues related to autoethnographic legitimacy and representation. The study covered a 6-year period during which the practitioners perspective on the internal and external factors influencing the creation of three hypermedia CD-ROMs contributed to an emerging theory of design. The author highlights the interrelationship between perception and reality as vital to qualitative approaches and encourages researchers to investigate their reality more fully by practicing the art of autoethnography.

Reaching the wider learning community: Exploring the support and design of media enhanced teaching

As higher education courses are increasingly expected to have an online presence, academic staff are faced not only with workload challenges but also with changes to the type of work in which they are involved and consequently the skills, dispositions and support that is required. Within the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology, several mini-cases relating to micro-innovations in the design of video in online teaching were examined for the purpose of understanding these challenges. The investigation is significant in that it takes a broader view of the learning communities involved in design to include academic peers, technical support staff and facility managers. In considering this broader learning community, it is clear that a proactive approach is needed at the faculty level to ensure that the work of innovators and early adopters is recognised and shared in a way that contributes to wide scale and sustainable implementation of new ideas.