Welcome to
ASCILITE 2024!

Jason Lodge

Jason Lodge is a lifelong student of learning and a staunch advocate of evidence- informed education. A chef by trade, a psychological scientist by training, and an educator by profession, for over 20 years, Jason has worked to better understand learning to enhance education, particularly via digital technologies.

Jason is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Learning, Instruction, and Technology Lab in the School of Education at The University of Queensland (UQ). With the lab team, Jason explores the cognitive, metacognitive, and emotional aspects of learning, particularly in higher education and with digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI). He and his team have a particular interest in self- and co-regulated learning.

Recently, Jason has been focused on the evolving role of AI in education. He serves as an expert advisor to the OECD and Australian National Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in Education and led the Assessment Experts Forum in partnership with the Australian Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). The resulting resource, Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence, is being used across education sectors in Australia and around the world to rethink assessment in light of the emergence of generative AI. His most recent work in partnership with the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES) has been on developing a national framework for AI in higher education, a translation of the Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools.

Jason also serves as Deputy Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UQ. He holds fellowships with the Psychonomic Society (US) and the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia and is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). Jason has received numerous teaching awards, including the Australian Psychological Society’s Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Education and was an inaugural winner of the ASCILITE and CAULLT Award for Outstanding Leadership in Digital Learning in Higher Education in 2023. Additionally, Jason is an editor of Student Success and until recently served as the Lead Editor of Australasian Journal of Educational Technology.

Susan McKenney

Susan McKenney is professor of teacher professionalization, school development and educational technology. At the University of Twente, she chairs of the Learning, Data-analytics and Technology Department which is home to four sub-units, respectively focused on teacher education; professional learning and development; instructional technology; and cognition and data analytics.

Professor McKenney is also Extraordinary Professor of Educational Technology at North-West University, South Africa. Her past international service includes chairing the International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE), serving as editor-in-chief of the society’s journal, Educational Designer, and as associate editor for the Journal of the Learning Sciences.

She currently serves on numerous local, national, and international committees and advisory panels, as well as the editorial boards of Instructional Science, Educational Design Research, Journal of the Learning Sciences, Educational Technology Research & Development, and Review of Educational Research. In addition to tailor-made training programs, she has designed, delivered and/or taught over a dozen courses on the bachelor, master and doctorate levels, most of which were related to (computer supported) curriculum development; educational design (research); technology integration in the curriculum; and/or teacher and school development.

Professor McKenney has collaborated in over 50 externally funded research and/or development projects for various organizations, including Netherlands National Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO); the Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO); the (American) National Science Foundation (NSF); the European Union (EU); and the World Bank. To date, her scientific output is visible through more than 100 peer reviewed publications.

Her research focuses on understanding and supporting the interplay between curriculum development and teacher professional development, and often emphasizes the supportive role of technology in these processes. As such, she also studies processes of design that can be applied in the field of education, and synergetic research-practice interactions. Since design-based (implementation) research lends itself to such synergies, her writing and teaching often provide ideas about how to conduct this exciting form of inquiry. Her book on this topic, Conducting Educational Design Research (co-authored with Tom Reeves), is now in its 2nd edition, and a 3rd edition is currently under development.

Dr. Lisa Marie Blaschke

Dr. Lisa Marie Blaschke is a senior learning consultant, providing learning services in self-determined learning and hyflex and online learning design, development, and project management. Lisa Marie has over 30 years’ experience working within international corporate and public education environments, leading and implementing global knowledge management and training solutions, as well as programme and curriculum development and management within the higher education and K-12 segments.

Lisa Marie is the former programme director of the Management of Technology Enhanced Learning (MTEL) master’s programme at the Center for Lifelong Learning (C3L) at University of Oldenburg, Germany, where she was responsible for design and delivery of the curriculum and programme.

She was also a senior researcher at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg in Heilbronn and is a former executive committee member and vice-president of EDEN Digital Learning Europe, a Senior EDEN DLE Fellow, and a past Chair of the Board of the EDEN DLE Fellows Council. While an adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College, Lisa Marie received the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence.

She serves on the advisory and editorial boards of numerous online and distance learning journals and her research interests are primarily in the areas of heutagogy (self-determined learning) within online, blended and hyflex learning environments. Prior to academia, Lisa Marie led and implemented global, enterprise-wide knowledge management and training processes and solutions at SAP AG in Germany. 

Recent publications from Dr. Blaschke include:

Blaschke, L.M. (in press, 2024). Journeying the road less traveled. In O.Farrell & D. Hoven (Eds.), (Grand)Motherhood and the doctoral journey.Athabasca Press.

Olcott, D., Jr., Arnold, D., & Blaschke, L.M. (2023). Leadership 2030: Renewed vision and empowered choices for European university leaders. European Journal of Open, Distance, and E-Learning. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eurodl-2023-0006

Hase, S., & Blaschke, L.M. (Eds.) (2021). Unleashing the power of learner agency.  https://edtechbooks.org/up

Blaschke, L.M. (2021). The dynamic mix of heutagogy and technology: Preparing learners for lifelong learning. British Journal of Education Technology.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13105

E-portfolio: http://lisamarieblaschke.pbworks.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisamarieblaschke/

Margaret Bearman

Margaret Bearman is a Research Professor within the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University.

She is known for her conceptual and empirical studies of higher and health professional education. Current programs of research include: learning to work with artificial intelligence (AI); and feedback cultures in clinical environments.

She was a member of the leadership team that produced the 2023 national guidelines for Australian universities: Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence.

Margaret Bearman

Margaret Bearman is a Research Professor within the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University. She is known for her conceptual and empirical studies of higher and health professional education. Current programs of research include: learning to work with artificial intelligence (AI); and feedback cultures in clinical environments. She was a member of the leadership team that produced the 2023 national guidelines for Australian universities: Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence.

Chris Keynon

Chris Kenyon has been in and out of tertiary education for decades. His first book about working with international students was a best seller. He has lived and worked in a dozen countries, and currently lives in a solar passive home that he and his wife designed, and he built.