Catherine Pocknee
Academic Development Advisor,
Faculty of Life and Social Science
Ph: +613 9214 5246
Fax: +613 9214 4328
Email: cpocknee@swinburne.edu.au

Cathy is the Academic Development Advisor in the Faculty of Life and Social Science where she works with the Deputy Dean and Academic Development Coordinator to support staff in learning and teaching quality for the improvement of the student learning experience. Cathy has extensive experience in work integrated learning (WIL), project management, professional development online materials development, ALTC awards and submission writing, and the establishment of cross-university strategic partnerships to promote flexible delivery.

Before returning to the Faculty of Life and Social Science in August 2009 Cathy ran the Cooperative Education Office where she was responsible for the central coordination of Cooperative Education programs across the university. While working in the Cooperative Education Office she had the had the opportunity to co-mange the ALTC Discipline-Based Initiatives Program; Common Curriculum Issues Project:  Work Integrated Learning:  A national framework for initiatives to support best practice, which undertook the first large scale scoping study of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) curriculum in contemporary Australian higher education. Cathy is a co author of The WIL Report: A national scoping study, an outcome of this project which has recently been published by ALTC and can be downloaded at: http://www.altc.edu.au/carrick/go/home/pid/747

Cathy has a strong background in educational research and is currently undertaking a PhD investigating ideas surrounding strategic educational change and distributed leadership in a university context. She is an active member of WACE, ACEN, ASCILITE and HERDSA.

• PhD (Candidate): Deakin University
• M.Ed: University of Queensland
• B.Ed: Griffith University
• G.D.S.E.: University of Melbourne
• Dip Ed: University of Melbourne

Publications:

Pocknee, C. Peach, D. & Patrick, Cj., (2009) “Challenges for the future ” In  S. Billett, (Ed) Promoting professional learning: Integrating experiences in university and practice settings. Forthcoming book; Springer International (Professional Learning series) due for publication 2009/10.

Peach, D., Patrick, Cj. &  Pocknee, C. (2009) “Scoping work integrated learning purposes, practices and outcomes” In  S. Billett, (Ed) Promoting professional learning: Integrating experiences in university and practice settings. Forthcoming book; Springer International (Professional Learning series) due for publication 2009/10.

Patrick, Cj., Peach, D. &  Pocknee, C. (2009) “Practice qualities and characteristics in work integrated learning” In  S. Billett, (Ed) Promoting professional learning: Integrating experiences in university and practice settings. Forthcoming book; Springer International (Professional Learning series) due for publication 2009/10.

Patrick, Cj., Peach, D. & Pocknee, C. (2008) “The WIL Report: A national scoping study.” Publication date: December 2008, Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Report.

Pelliccione, L., Pocknee, C. & Mulvany, J., (2008) “The Use of Social Interaction Technologies in ePortfolios.” Forthcoming publication; Encyclopaedia of Social Interaction Technologies, currently under editorial review.

Molphy, M., Pocknee, C. & Young, T. (2007). Online Communities of Practice: Are they principled and how do they work? Paper presented at the ASILITE 2007 Conference: ICT: Providing Choices for Learners and Learning, Singapore.

Pocknee, C, & Mazzolini, M. (2007). To Accredit, or Not to Accredit: That is the Question Paper presented at the WACE 15th World Conference on Cooperative Education, Singapore.

Mulvany, J., Owen, C., & Pocknee, C. (2006). Changing practice in Higher Education: where’s the room? Workshop presentation at HERDSA conference Perth July, 2006.

Molphy, M., & Pocknee, C. (2005). Chemistry Online in a Constructivist Environment. Paper presented at the ASILITE 2005 Conference: Balance, Fidelity, Mobility. Maintaining the Momentum?, Brisbane, Australia.

Pocknee, C. (2005). Moving constructivist learning theories online: the academic experience. Unpublished Masters Thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane. (available from university library)

Turney, L., & Pocknee, C. (2005). Virtual focus groups: New frontiers in research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 4(2), Article 3.

Krezel, A., & Pocknee, C. (2004) Moving towards project based learning: A case study looking at a first year Civil Engineering subject, Paper presented at the Fourth international workshop on Active Learning in Engineering Education: From activity to active learning, or how to learn to act with competence! Nantes, France

Turney, L., & Pocknee, C. (2004). Virtual Focus Groups: New technologies, new opportunities, new learning environments. Paper presented at the ASCILITE 2004 Conference; Beyond the Comfort Zone, University of Western Australia.

Blicblau, A.S. & Pocknee, C. (2004) An on-line learning initiative in Materials Engineering, World Congress on Engineering and Technology Education in Brazil and published in the conference proceeding: as of March 14 - 17, 2004.

Molphy, M., Pocknee, C. & Harding, I. (2004) Moving Chemistry Online: A New Perspective, presented at the ChemED 2004 Conference Proceedings in Hobart and published in The Australian Journal of Education in Chemistry, February 6, 2004.

Blicblau, A.S. & Pocknee, C. (2003) A Multi-Modal Approach to Teaching and Learning:  A Case Study of Teaching Materials and Process Engineering; 14th Annual Conference for Australian Association for Engineering Education, Melbourne, Australia.

Pocknee, C. & Robbie, D. (2002) Surveyor: A Case Study of a Web Based Survey Tool for Academics. A paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Auckland, New Zealand.

Professional Memberships:

Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)

Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia (HERDSA)

Australian Society for Educational Technology (ASET)

International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)