Category: Research
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PhD Dissertation in Brief
The main purpose of my Action Research investigation was to better understand how post-secondary faculty mentor self-regulatory behaviours in a project-based learning environment (PjBL). The secondary purpose was to understand how the Action Research process supported faculty in their mentoring. Lastly, understanding learner perceptions of being mentored and how the faculty’s mentoring of specific self-regulatory…
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Reinventing the Audience Experience at Salon Series #3: A streamed dance event
Often times, at the Centre for Digital Media’s MDM Program, we challenge our learners to innovate. So what does innovation look like in the social media space? Is there any room for innovation or are we stuck in the “just tweet that out to get attention” loop? Are we destined to mainly rely on Facebook…
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Case Studies: Interactive Digital Media Artifacts
In the past 15 years I have mentored over 35 projects and 205 graduate students on various virtual productions leading to interactive digital prototypes (game, mobile, installation, video and web apps) for real-world clients. Documentation generally consisted of a problem statement, problem(s) to solve, research, executive summary, methods, and applying a user-centered methodology. The documents…
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PhD Research
The map below represents a typology I developed with faculty at the Master of Digital Media Program in order to better operationalize the mentoring strategies they used to mentor self-regulatory behaviours from learners on projects with clients from the video game industry. I am now a PhD Candidate with all-but-dissertation (ABD) status, anticipating a defence…