Ms Judi Baron

Biography/ Background

Judi is a Senior Lecturer and Convenor of the Graduate Certificate in Online Learning (Higher Education). She also coordinates the Online Learning Unit within the Centre for Learning and Professional Development (CLPD). Online Learning specialises in the areas of pedagogy, instructional design and multimedia and provides effective learning and teaching support to the University community as well as external groups. Judi is currently a PhD candidate and is researching academic staff adoption of transformative blended learning. Her research interests also include situational learning which incorporates online roleplay simulations and scenario-based learning as well as teaching online across cultures.

Judi is the South Australian Network Leader for Project EnRoLE which promotes online roleplay simulations nationally. In addition Judi convenes a Situational Community of Practice for Educators at http://www.scopenetwork.org.au

Qualifications

M.Ed. (Dist.Ed.), B.Ed. (Bus.), Dip.T. (Comm.), Dip.ProjMgt

Enrolled in PhD, School of Education, Charles Sturt University

Publications

Book Chapters:

Baron, J. & Davenport, A. (2010) The Use of Issues-Based Scenarios to Promote Authentic Learning and Assessment in Higher Education, within Errington, E. (Ed) Preparing graduates for the professions using scenario-based learning, PostPressed, Brisbane, Australia

Baron, J., Steele, L., Al Kawas, S. (2010) Health Sciences Case Study, within Marshall, S. Kinuthia, W. Russell, R. (Eds) Cases'n'Places: Global Cases in Educational and Performance Technology, Information Age Publishing, USA

Recent Journal Articles:

Varzaly, J. and Baron, J. (2009) ‘The Future of Corporate Governance: Innovation through Online Scenario-Based Learning’, International Review of Business Research, Vol. 5, no. 3

Maier, H., Baron, J. and McLaughlan, R. (2007). Using online roleplay/simulations for teaching sustainability principles to engineering students. International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 23 no. 6, pp 1162-1171.

Recent Conference Workshops:

Davenport, A. & Baron, J. (2007) 'Online role play: What it means for learners, developers and educators' 24th annual ascilite conference, ICT: Providing Choices for Learners and Learning, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2-5 December

Recent conference papers and presentations:

Varzaly, J. and Baron, J. (2008), ‘The Future of Corporate Governance: Innovation through Online Scenario-Based Learning’, Proceedings of the Ninth International Business Research Conference, Melbourne, November 2008, World Business Institute, CD, ISBN 978-0-9804557-0-3

Baron, J. (2008) 'Cultural Values and Beliefs from an Educational Perspective in the Arab World' Motivating and Engaging Students, The Education Research Group of Adelaide (ERGA) conference, University of Adelaide, 24-25 September

Davenport, A. & Baron, J. (2007) 'Meeting the 21st century challenge: The situational learning initiative at the University of Adelaide', 24th annual ascilite conference, ICT: Providing Choices for Learners and Learning, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2-5 December

Maier, H.R. & Baron, J. (2005) 'Developing Online Roleplay Simulations for Preparing Engineering Students for Multidisciplinary and International Practice', Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE/AaeE 4th Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Sydney, 26-29 September.

Baron, J. (2005) Educating the Net Generation presentation at ComBio 2005 (the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/ANZ Society for Cell and Development Biology/Australian Society of Plant Scientists conference) in Adelaide on 26 September 2005.

Maier, H., Baron, J., Crisp, G., Carrington, A., Hall, D., and McLaughlan, R. (2005) 'Mekong e-Sim: a webbased roleplay/simulation activity in Blackboard' presented at Blackboard Asia Pacific User Conference, Sydney, 28-29 September.

Baron, J. and Maier, H. (2005) 'The Challenge of Maintaining the Momentum' in Goss, H. (ed) Balance, Fidelity, Mobility: maintaining the momentum, proceedings of the 22nd annual conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Brisbane, 4-7 December, Vol 1, pp 57-66.

Baron, J. and Maier, H. (2004) A Community of Inquiry evaluation of Mekong e-Sim: an online collaborative simulation. In Proceedings of ICET 2004, International Conference on Educational Technology: Evolving Technologies in Education: Enhancing Learning & Teaching (CD-ROM). Singapore, 9-11 September. http://www.icet.com.sg http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/resources/publication/confpapers/ICET2004paper.pdf (pdf 375kB)

Recent reports:

Baron, J. and Hopkins, D. (2006) Review of MyUni 2001-2005 Final Report. 76 pages, available at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/resources/reports/

Professional Associations

Member of ascilite

University of Adelaide delegate representative for ACODE

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010