John G. Hedberg

John G. Hedberg, Ph.D., is Professor, Millennium Chair of ICT and Education, and Head of the Department of Education at Macquarie University. Over the years, he has worked on several research projects about the use of ICTs in learning, and is an internationally recognized expert and authority in this area. Past/recent projects include: the use of mobile phones as social software tools in orienteering tasks in geography; designing learning objects for small screen display; using cognitive tools to develop mathematics problem-solving repertoire; Internet literacy; and the production of multimodal artifacts in history and science. John has designed training needs assessments and evaluation systems, and conducted workshops on the instructional design and evaluation of e-learning environments. He has been keynote speaker at numerous conferences throughout Australia and in Canada, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, China, and Europe.

Publications

Curriculum Design for Developing Capacity to Deal with Complex Issues: Theoretical Perspectives
Curriculum Design for Developing Capacity to Deal with Complex Issues: Theoretical Perspectives
Cherry Stewart, Ashfaq Khan, John G. Hedberg. © 2013. 16 pages.
This chapter explores mental complexity theory in relation to curriculum design and development, and its relationship to implementation as interactive distance learning. The...
Real Experiences with Virtual Worlds
Real Experiences with Virtual Worlds
Andrew Cram, John G. Hedberg. © 2012. 16 pages.
The virtual world provides a useful experimental space in which learners can experience the design parameters of a real world task. The importance of the simulated space is that...
Foreword
Foreword
John G. Hedberg. © 2011. 3 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Web 2.0-Based E-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching.
The Pedagogy of Mobility
The Pedagogy of Mobility
Kathy M. Stewart, John G. Hedberg. © 2011. 20 pages.
Direct student experience of the real, live organism, object, place or environment is recognised by teachers and other educators as having powerful potential for high quality...
Using Technology to Support Quality Learning for School Activities Involving Field Studies
Using Technology to Support Quality Learning for School Activities Involving Field Studies
K. M. Stewart, K. Thompson, J. G. Hedberg, W. Y. Wong. © 2010. 16 pages.
The term mobile learning provides an image of active learning, of moving out into the world beyond the confines of the desk, beyond the classroom, beyond the school. The...
Evaluation Strategies for Open and Distributed Learning Environments
Evaluation Strategies for Open and Distributed Learning Environments
Thomas C. Reeves, John G. Hedberg. © 2009. 9 pages.
Evaluation falls into the category of those often neglected human practices such as exercise and eating right. All of us involved in education or training know that we should...
The Future of Learning with Digital Libraries
The Future of Learning with Digital Libraries
Chang Chew-Hung, John G. Hedberg. © 2009. 9 pages.
While the prospect of using digital libraries for learning becomes more appealing with growing repositories of resources, it is not clear what factors other than the use of...
Learning Objects, Learning Tasks, and Handhelds
Learning Objects, Learning Tasks, and Handhelds
Daniel Churchill, John Gordon Hedberg. © 2009. 19 pages.
The main idea behind learning objects is that they are to exist as digital resources separated from the learning task in which they are used. This allows a learning object to be...
A Visual Learning Design Representation to facilitate dissemination and reuse of innovative pedagogical strategies in University Teaching
A Visual Learning Design Representation to facilitate dissemination and reuse of innovative pedagogical strategies in University Teaching
Shirley Agostinho, Barry Harper, Ron Oliver, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills. © 2008. 14 pages.
This chapter describes a visual learning design representation devised in an Australian funded project that focused on identifying and describing innovative educational practices...
Online Classroom Simulation: Using a Virtual Classroom to Support Pre-Service Teacher Thinking
Online Classroom Simulation: Using a Virtual Classroom to Support Pre-Service Teacher Thinking
Brian Ferry, Lisa Kervin, Sarah Puglisi, Brian Cambourne, Jan Turbill, David Jonassen, John Hedberg. © 2008. 20 pages.
Research consistently shows that traditional preservice teacher preparation programs are not adequately preparing beginning teachers for the reality of classrooms. The purpose of...
Evaluation Strategies for Open and Distributed Learning Environments
Evaluation Strategies for Open and Distributed Learning Environments
Thomas C. Reeves, John G. Hedberg. © 2007. 10 pages.
Evaluation falls into the category of those often neglected human practices such as exercise and eating right. All of us involved in education or training know that we should...
Online Classroom Simulation: Using a Virtual Classroom to Support Pre-Service Teacher Thinking
Online Classroom Simulation: Using a Virtual Classroom to Support Pre-Service Teacher Thinking
Brian Ferry, Lisa Kervin, Sarah Puglisi, Brian Cambourne, Jan Turbill, David Jonassen, John Hedberg. © 2006. 27 pages.
Research consistently shows that traditional preservice teacher preparation programs are not adequately preparing beginning teachers for the reality of classrooms. The purpose of...