Niki Davis
University of Canterbury e-Learning Lab
New Zealand - Christchurch
Emeritus Professor of e-Learning
Presentations
- Social Media Uncertainties: Preservice Teachers’ Use of Facebook in the Digital Era.
- Teacher educators’ practices with m-learning: A case study of ‘far transfer’ into schools of practices learned during preservice teacher education
- Mobile Learning Practices in Initial Teacher Education: Illustrations from Three Teacher Educators
- Smart Partnerships in Education: What are they?
- Networked Schools in New Zealand: Examples from the Virtual Learning Network
- Walking to the future stages of the Higher Education: Blended learning strategies empirically proved
- A Case Study of ICT Integration during Field Experience in Malaysian Secondary School.
- Virtual Learning in New Zealand: Achieving Maturity
- Enhancing digital capability through self-directed learning for initial teacher education and beyond
- Educational Applications of Information Technologies by International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) WG 3.3
Biography
Niki Davis, University of Canterbury Professor Emerita remains associated with the School of Educational Studies and Leadership and UC Child Well-being Research Institute, as well as the e-Learning Research Lab that she founded in 2008. As UC Distinguished Professor of e-Learning, she was recognized internationally as a leading expert in information and communication technologies in teacher education. She has over 200 publications including books and scholarly papers. Leadership positions have included Director of Iowa State University Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching in the USA and University of Exeter Telematics Center in the UK; President of the Society of Information Technology in Teacher Education, the UK association for Information Technology in Teacher Education and the Flexible Learning Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (FLANZ, previously DEANZ); Chair of educational research for the International Federation of Information Processing; and Editor of academic refereed journals including Information Technology for Teacher Education. Since her arrival in New Zealand in 2008 Professor Davis has led research in e-learning, including e-learning for adults with needs in literacy and numeracy for the New Zealand Ministry of Education, virtual schooling and emergent bilinguals in a digital world within a National Science Challenge project. Collaborative work includes culturally sensitive e-learning with success for indigenous peoples.