MICRO-BIO

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EXPERIENCE

• Miyazaki International College

  • Associate Professor
  • International Liberal Arts
  • Present

EDUCATION

• Queensland University of Technology

  • Doctor of Education
  • January 2008 to December 2012

  The title of my thesis was: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING: DO BEST PRACTICES WORK? This study was undertaken to examine the influence that a set of Professional Development (PD) initiatives had on faculty use of Moodle, a well known Course Management System. The context of the study was a private language university just outside Tokyo, Japan. Specifically, it aimed to identify the way in which the PD initiatives adhered to professional development best practice criteria; how faculty members perceived the PD initiatives; what impact the PD initiatives had on faculty use of Moodle; and other variables that may have influenced faculty in their use of Moodle. I also have a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Sydney; a Masters of Teaching from The University of Sydney; and a Diploma of Multimedia from The Gold Coast Institute of TAFE. I am currently an Associate Professor at Miyazaki International College, in Kyushu, Japan. And I am a Senior Writer for the photoraphy website, Fstoppers (https://fstoppers.com)

Interests

• Photography

Links

• Iain Stanley