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My professional role

• I am an educational developer in the Educational Development Centre, and work with several staff on flexible development projects.
• I teach Designing for flexible learning practice in the Graduate Certificate of Tertiary learning and Teaching at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• I also teach Evaluation of eLearning for Best Practice as part of the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) Graduate Certificate in Applied eLearning.
• Other aspects of my role include educational design, teaching and learning strategies for flexibility and the use of technology in education.

Bronwyn's profile at Otago Polytechnic, and some References to my work

Bronwyn Hegarty
Employer:	Otago Polytechnic
Occupation:	Educational Developer
Other roles:	Principal Lecturer, Doctoral Candidate, researcher, online facilitator, project manager.
Nationality:	New Zealander
Country:	New Zealand
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This user is an elected member of the WikiEducator Community Council.

I was elected to the WikiEducator Council in 2008 (my campaign page) to advocate for the following:

1. Better collaboration between global communities to share resources;
2. More diverse educational resources - produced in partnership for communities who do not have online access;
3. Educational approaches to support the United Nations Millenium goals;
4. Wider use of Wikieducator nationally in New Zealand for sustainable tertiary education;
5. More practical and streamlined use of resources on WikiEducator;
6. Usability testing and research evaluation of Wikieducator resources for effective learning;
7. Improved functionality of the Wikieducator platform for the "cautious" educator;
8. More versatile design tools and features for the wiki pages.

Course development using WikiEducator

Since 2007, as an Educational Developer, I have both created and helped academic colleagues at Otago Polytechnic to create courses on Wikieducator. Namely:

• The Anatomy and Physiology of Animals
• HIVAIDS
• Evaluation of eLearning for Best Practice
• Designing for flexible learning practice
• Facilitating online communities
• Digital information literacy
• Food Safety

Research projects

• Digital information literacy is currently in the report writing phase.
• The power of design on flexible learning has been completed. Outputs included: a poster presentation of findings at Herdsa, Rotorua in 2008.

History using WikiEducator

My first introduction to WikiEducator happened in September 2006 when I added myself as a volunteer to help create a wiki version of the elearning Guidebook. I became interested in the Commonwealth of Learning initiatives in 2004 when I helped organise the PCF3 and DEANZ (Distance Education in New Zealand) conference in Dunedin. One of the outputs of the conference was a paper proposing strategies for helping meet the United Nations Millenium goals.