Dr Michael Henderson

Job title:	Lecturer
Qualifications:	PhD BEd(Hons) BA
Location:	Clayton, building 6, room 314
Phone:	+61 3 990 52858
Email:	Michael.Henderson@education.monash.edu.au Michael.Henderson@education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	N/A
Personal website:	http://cemm.educ.monash.edu.au/moodle/course/view.php?id=3

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Biography

Dr Henderson has ten years experience as a secondary school teacher in urban and rural settings, state and private sectors, in both Queensland and England. He has acted in the role of ICT cross-curricular coordinator and subsequently Head of ICT. These roles included the management of whole-school student and staff laptop schemes, staff training programmes, and supported the integration of what was then innovative technologies such as Interactive Whiteboards, student digital video production, digital games and web enabled teaching strategies. Dr Henderson's interest in school innovation and teachers work has continued with his active membership in ICTEV, QSITE, professional publications, as well as being an invited keynote for several conferences. Dr Henderson has also presented his research at a number of international conferences and published both professional and academic articles in the fields of eLearning and online professional development. Dr Henderson joined Monash University as Lecturer in ICTE in June 2007.

Research Interests

Technology and Learning

Social technologies (eg. Web 2.0)

eLearning and Blended learning

Professional Development

Digital Games in learning

Middle Phase/Schooling Learners

Situated learning and Communities of Practice

Professional Associations

• Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
• ICT in Education Victoria (ICTEV)
• Society for Information Technology Education (SITE)
• Queensland Society for Information Technology Education (QSITE)
• MirandaNet

Community Service

• The delivery of professional development courses and events for teachers including: Integrating eLearning strategies in the classroom; Engaging Middle Phase Learners through online technologies; Engaging students through digital games programming; Defining an eSchool; Success for Boys ICTs.
• State Council Member of ICT in Education Victoria (ICTEV)
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Journal (peer reviewed international journal), February 2008

Supervision

Recent and current supervision includes topics such as:

The role of self-efficacy in the adoption of blended teaching practices.

International students' belief transformation in teaching with technology.

ICT pedagogy and curriculum integration in Queensland Catholic schools.

Creativity and Risk taking - using ICTs in the Arts.

Clinical Simulation in the Education of Nurses.

Collaborative Simulations in an online marketing course.

Maximizing effectiveness of on-line adult learning in HK and Australia.

Females in the IT Domain: Participation, Perceptions and Choices.

Editorial

Guest Editor for special edition of the internatinal journal Campus-Wide Information Systems, Spring 2008.

Publications

Henderson, M. (2008). Engaging eLearning strategies: role plays, debates and soap-operas. Proceedings of the Australian Computers in Education Conference 2008. Canberra: Australian Council for Computers in Education.

Auld, G., Holkner, B., Fernando, A., Henderson, M., Romeo, G., Russell, G., Seah, W., & Edwards, S. (2008). Exemplar schools using innovative learning technologies. Proceedings of the Australian Computers in Education Conference 2008. Canberra: Australian Council for Computers in Education.

Henderson, M. & Bradey, S. (2008). Shaping online teaching practices: the influence of professional and academic identities. Campus-Wide Information Systems, 25(2). Pp.85-92.

Fernstrom, K., Henderson, M., O'Grady, B. & Shurville, S. (2008). Australasian educational technology: it's a wide open road. Papers from and inspired by ICICTE 2007. Campus-Wide Information Systems, 25(2). Pp.69-73.

Henderson, M. (2008). Relationships are more important than content: designing effective Professional Development within a Community of Practice approach. In K. McFerrin et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (pp. 1432-1439). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Henderson, M. & Bradey, S. (2008). Recognising the importance of identity in the development of academics' pedagogical beliefs and web-enhanced teaching practices. In K. McFerrin et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (pp. 1424-1431). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Henderson, M. (2007). Managing Chat. Education Technology Solutions, 21. pp. 28-30.

Henderson, M. (2007). Shared Repertoire of Communities of Teaching Practice and their role in sustaining online professional development courses. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference 2007. November 2007, Fremantle.

Henderson, M. (2007). Strategies for email and discussion forums. The Education Technology Guide, 20. pp. 26-28.

Henderson, M. (2007). Sustaining online teacher professional development through community design. Campus-Wide Information Systems, 24(3). Pp.162-173.

Henderson, M. (2007). Online Communication and Collaboration: a new kind of teaching? The Education Technology Guide, 18. pp. 52-54.

Henderson, M. (2006). Sustaining the professional development of teachers through a model of community of practice. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference 2006. November 2006, Adelaide.

Henderson, M. (2006). Fostering community cohesion to sustain small scale online professional development courses. Australian Educational Computing, 21(2). pp.9-15.

Henderson, M. (2006). Using community cohesion to sustain online professional development. Proceedings of the Australian Computers in Education Conference 2006. Cairns: Australian Council for Computers in Education.

Henderson, M. (2006). Using online community design to sustain teacher professional development. In K. Fernstrom & K. Tsolakidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Communications Technologies in Education 2006, 270-274. Abbotsford, Canada: UCFV Press.

Henderson, M. (2006). Online Communication and Collaboration: a new kind of teaching? QUICK: Journal of the Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education, 101(Summer). pp. 10-17.

Henderson, M. & Henderson, L. (2006). Content Design for Online Learning. QUICK: Journal of the Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education, 99(Winter). pp.3-8.

Henderson, M. (2006). Planning for Integrating Online Learning. QUICK: Journal of the Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education, 98(Autumn). pp.11-19.

Baskin, C., & Henderson, M. (2005) Ariadnes Thread: using social presence indices to distinguish learning events in face-to-face and ICT-rich settings. ELearning, 2(3). pp.252-261.

Anderson, N., & Henderson, M. (2004) e-PD: blended models of sustaining teacher professional development in digital literacies. ELearning, 1(3). pp.383-394.

Henderson, M. (2004). Sustaining the Professional Development of Teachers through a Virtual Learning Environment: Promoting Effective Teaching with ICT. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2004, 3061-3066. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Baskin, C., & Henderson, M. (2004) Semiotic Spaces & Teaching Places The Role of ICTs in Regenerating Teaching Practice. Symposium Paper Shared Spaces between Teacher Education and Higher Education. Australian Teacher Education Association Conference. Bathurst July, 2004.