Shirley Agostinho

Shirley Agostinho is a lecturer in Educational Technology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. Prior to becoming a lecturer, Shirley was a Research Fellow and Post-Doctoral Fellow researching the concept of learning designs and learning objects. She was the Project Manager for an Australian nationally funded project during 2000-2002 that focused on producing innovative reusable learning designs.

Publications

Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications, and Technologies
Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications, and Technologies
Lori Lockyer, Sue Bennett, Shirley Agostinho, Barry Harper. © 2009. 1018 pages.
Designing effective learning experiences is a significant challenge foreducators. While there is a wide range of expert advice available fortechnology supported teaching and...
Learning Design Representations to Document, Model, and Share Teaching Practice
Learning Design Representations to Document, Model, and Share Teaching Practice
Shirley Agostinho. © 2009. 19 pages.
The term “learning design” is gaining momentum in the e-learning literature as a concept for supporting academics to model and share teaching practice. Its definition and...
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...
Using Characters in Online Simulated Environments to Guide Authentic Tasks
Using Characters in Online Simulated Environments to Guide Authentic Tasks
Shirley Agostinho. © 2006. 8 pages.
The use of characters to present tasks and critical information in a simulated environment has proven to be a useful strategy in the creation of more authentic learning...