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Keynote Speakers for NACCQ Conference 2002
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Sally Fincher
Sally is a lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury in the UK. Most of her interests focus on the teaching and learning of Computer Science. She is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Computer Science, secretary of the ACM SIGCSE and a corresponding member of IFIP Working Group 3.2.
From 1997 to 2000 Sally was a Project Manager for project EPCoS (Effective Projectwork in Computer Science) www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/national/EPCOS/ and also co-authored a book “Computer Science Project Work: Principles and Pragmatics” EPCoS was a UKP250,000 project funded in Phase One of the HEFCE Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning.
Currently Sally is jointly running an NSF-funded project “Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education”, and is also organising the Doctoral Consortium for HCI 2002, the 16th British HCI Group Annual Conference.
Professor Carmel McNaught
Professor Carmel McNaught is Professor of Learning Enhancement at CUHK in Hong Kong. She was previously Head of Professional Development in Learning Technology Services at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Carmel has had 28 years experience in teaching and research in higher education. She has worked in the discipline areas of chemistry, science education, second language learning and higher education. She moved to CUHK in January 2002 after five years as Associate Professor in Computer Mediated Communication at RMIT. She integrates her staff development program with working as an educational designer and evaluator in specific projects where staff are using communication and information technologies.
Carmel’s current research interests include evaluation of innovation in higher education and understanding the broader implementation of the use of technology in higher education. One key project is looking at relationships between academics’ beliefs about teaching and learning and their design and use of computers in teaching and learning.
Carmel has taught mainly in the Sciences and in Education. Her main expertise relates to curriculum design in the Sciences—both with conventional deliveries and using communication and information technologies (CIT). She has coordinated and taught Research Methods courses at post-graduate level. She has successfully supervised six masters students and one doctoral student, and currently has three doctoral students and three students at masters level.
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