Professor Sue Gregory
is the Head of School, School of Education, at the University of New
England. Her role requires developing strategic initiatives and
aligning resources that support the University and Faculty goals, and
developing and maintaining linkages, internally and externally,
including accreditation bodies, industry partners and community
leaders. Previously, Sue has held positions of Chair of Research,
Higher Degree Research Course Coordinator, a UNE Education Scholar and
a lecturer in ICT Education. She also holds a Senior Fellowship of the
Higher Education Academy.Sue has been the Leader for eLearning, ePedagogy and Innovations Research Network Group in the school.
As a long-term adult educator, she has taught pre-service and
post-graduate education students how to incorporate technology into
their teaching. Sue has applied her virtual world knowledge to expose
her students, both on-campus and online, to the learning opportunities
in virtual worlds, since 2007. She has been involved in many national
and university projects on creating and using learning spaces in
virtual worlds and successful in receiving $2.322m in funds. Sue was the lead of two Category 1
OLT projects “VirtualPREX:
Innovative assessment using a 3D virtual world with pre-service
teachers", the SmartFarm Learning Hub, and also a member on three other OLT projects and received an OLT
citation in 2012. Sue has also been facilitating a Leading Pedagogy course for school leaders in Victoria focusing on improving and
building their capabilities and confidence to deepen their pedagogical knowledge. Since 2009, Sue has been Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group.
She also received an OLT citation in 2012. Since 2009, Sue has been the
Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group,
written over 160 publications on teaching
and learning in virtual worlds and using ICT as a resource in online
learning and teaching, and Editor of five books on teaching and
learning in virtual worlds (four as lead editor). Sue is on the Senior
Executive of ASCILITE (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning
in Tertiary Education) committee, currently serving as Vice President
and Chair of Awards.
