The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Mr Gregory Preston
Preferred name: Greg
School: School of Education
Personal URL: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school-old/education/prestongreg/index.html

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Mr Gregory Preston;Professor Sidney Bourke 2007 1 LearnScope Project Grant 2007 LearnScope Project Evaluation   8000  
Mr Gregory Preston 2007 1 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Research Grant The Impact of Web-based Lecture Technologies on Current and Future Practice in learning and Teaching   11277  
Doctor Josephine May;Mr Gregory Preston;Professor Allyson Holbrook 2006 2 Australian Teacher Education Association Research Grant History of the Australian Teacher Education Association   17510  
Professor Allyson Holbrook;Professor Sidney Bourke;Professor Terence Lovat;Mr Gregory Preston 2003 3 University of Newcastle Multi-Year Project Grant Scholarship Comparisons of evaluations by PhD examiners and ARC Discovery Grant assessors   29666  
Mr Gregory Preston 1995 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Sixth IFIP World Conference Computers in Education - United Kingdom   1734  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Education) Co-Supervisor A Study for Enhancing the Quality of Teaching Performance through Evaluation at Higher Educational Institutions in North Sulawesi Indonesia
PhD (Education) Co-Supervisor An Exploratory Study for an Appropriate Criterion of Quality Assurance to Improve the Quality Student Services at Saudi Arabian Universities
PhD (Education) Co-Supervisor Online Instruction in Saudi Universities: a Comparison of Satisfaction with EL Systems used in Different Universities
PhD (Education) Co-Supervisor Unlocking the Pandora Box of E-Learning in Singapore

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 1.350

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Education) 2009 "Are Schools Ready to go Online?" A Study that Examines the Current State of Information and Communication Technologies in Secondary Schools and Explores the Possibility of the Introduction of a More Flexible Educational Structure Though Online Technology

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Preston Gregory Douglas, ’Louise Shaw: Making a difference: A history of the Auckland College of Education 1881-2004’, History of Education Review, 37 84-85 (2008) [C3]

Woo Karen, Gosper Maree, McNeill Margot, Preston Gregory Douglas, Green David, Phillips Rob, ’Web-based lecture technologies: Blurring the boundaries between face-to-face and distance learning’, ALT-J, 16 81-93 (2008) [C1]

Book

May Josephine Rose, Holbrook Allyson Patricia, Brown Alison Mary, Preston Gregory Douglas, Bessant Bob, Claiming a Voice: The First Thirty-Five Years of the Australian Teacher Education Association, Australian Teacher Education Association, Perth, WA, 169 (2009) [A2]

Chapter in Book

Preston Gregory Douglas, ’A beginner's guide to technology for study: What should I have and how do I use it?’, Stepping Stones: A Guide for Mature-Aged Students at University, ACER Press, Camberwell, Vic., 74-82 (2007) [B2]

Preston Gregory Douglas, ’Caught in the 'Net'’, Sociology of Education - Possibilities and Practices, Social Science Press, Sydney, 371 (1998) [B1]

Conference Publication

Fairbairn Hedy Margaret, Holbrook Allyson Patricia, Bourke Sidney Frederick, Preston Gregory Douglas, Cantwell Robert Harley, Scevak Jill Janina, ’A profile of education journals’, AARE 2008 Conference Papers Collection: Proceedings, Brisbane, QLD (2009) [E2]

Preston Gregory Douglas, ’Avatars and Second Life in education’, NSW Computer Education Group 24th Annual Conference. Abstracts, Newcastle, NSW (2008) [E3]

Preston Gregory Douglas, ’Podcasting in education’, NSW Computer Education Group 24th Annual Conference. Abstracts, Newcastle, NSW (2008) [E3]

Holbrook Allyson Patricia, Bourke Sidney Frederick, Preston Gregory Douglas, Cantwell Robert Harley, Scevak Jill Janina, ’Some results of the education journal banding study’, Abstracts of Focus Conference Papers 2007, Canberra (2008) [E3]

Holbrook Allyson Patricia, Bourke Sidney Frederick, Preston Gregory Douglas, Cantwell Robert Harley, Scevak Jill Janina, ’Some results of the education journal banding study’, Abstracts of AARE 2007 Focus Conference Papers, Canberra, ACT (2008) [E3]

Preston Gregory Douglas, ’The effects of podcasts on student learning and satisfaction’, ACEC 2008: Australian Computers in Education Conference. Conference Papers, Canberra, ACT (2008) [E1]

Green David, McNeill Margot, Gosper Maree, Woo Karen, Phillips Rob, Preston Gregory Douglas, ’Web based lecture technologies: A lens intensifying the changing roles of learners and lecturers’, Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2008: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Vienna, Austria (2008) [E1]

Gosper Maree, McNeill Margot, Woo Karen, Phillips Rob, Preston Gregory Douglas, Green David, ’Web-based lecture technologies: Guidelines to support learning and teaching’, Hello! Where are You in the Landscape of Educational Technology? Proceedings ascilite Melbourne 2008, Melbourne, VIC (2008) [E3]

Phillips R, Gosper M, McNeill M, Woo K, Preston Gregory Douglas, Green D, ’Staff and student perspectives on web based lecture technologies: Insights into the great divide’, Proceedings of ASCILITE Singapore 2007, Singapore (2007) [E1]

Phillips Rob, Gosper Maree, McNeill Margot, Woo Karen, Green David, Preston Gregory Douglas, Eckersley Charmian Elizabeth, ’Student perceptions of web based lecture recording technologies’, Teaching and Learning Furum 2007. Abstracts, Perth, W. A. (2007) [E3]

McNeill M, Woo K, Gosper M, Phillips R, Preston Gregory Douglas, Green D, ’Using web-based lecture technologies - advice from students’, HERDSA Annual Conference. Enhancing Higher Education, Theory and Scholarship. Papers, Adelaide (2007) [E1]

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