robert fitzgerald, phd

MONOGRAPHS & EDITED PROCEEDINGS

• Fitzgerald, R.N. & Nielsen, T.W. eds (2008). Imaginative practice, imaginative inquiry. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Imagination and Education, Rydges Lakeside, Canberra, Australia, 29–31 January 2008. ISBN: 978-1-74077-285-3. 154pp.

• Fitzgerald, D & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2002). The use of Integrated Learning Systems in developing number and language concepts in primary school children: A longitudinal study of individual differences. Literacy Program Grants for National Strategies. Research Monograph. DEST Clearinghouse: Griffith University.

• Shopen, G. & Liddicoat, A. J. & Fitzgerald, R. N. (1999). Meeting the challenge: Supporting partnerships between home and school in the middle years. Australian Government Quality Teacher Program Project. Department Education, Science and Training. Canberra, Research monograph, ACT SPELL Project/ACT Department Education & Training, ISBN 095-863-862-4.

• Robson, J., Routcliffe, P. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (1992). Remote schooling & information technology: A guide for teachers, Canberra: Australian Catholic University, ISBN 094-923-307-2.

• Robson, J., Routcliffe, P. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (1991). Remote schooling &information technology, Canberra: Australian Catholic University, ISBN 094-923-305-6.

CHAPTERS

• Fitzgerald, R.N. & Findlay, J. (2008). Team learning systems as a collaborative technology for rapid knowledge creation. Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies. Frederic Adams & Patrick Humphreys (Eds), IGI Global. ISBN: 978-1-59904-843-7.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2008). Advancing professional learning with collaborative technologies. Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration. Edited by Lawrence A. Tomei, Robert Morris University. ISBN: 978-1-59904-881-9.

• Moyle, K.M. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2008). Electronic focus groups. Handbook of digital information technologies: innovations and ethical issues. Edited by Thomas Hansson, University of Southern Denmark. IGI Global. ISBN: 978-1-59904-970-0.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2007). Open source learning: Wikis as an exemplary model of collaboration and knowledge creation. Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic and Social Perspectives. Edited by Kirk St. Amant and Brian Still, Texas Tech University. PA: IGI Global. ISBN:9781591409991.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2007). The accidental principal. In P. Duignan & D. Gurr (Eds.). Leading Australia’s Schools. A joint Department of Education, Science and Training and Australian Council of Educational Leadership publication.

• Gibbons, P., Crawford, K., Crichton, S. & Fitzgerald, R. N. (2000). Cognitive development in ICT contexts. In D. Watson and T. Downes (Eds) Communications & Networking in Education: Learning in a Networked Society, pp. 221-230, Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN: 079-237-760-5.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. & Waywood, A. (1996). Internet and teaching and learning. In P. Clarkson and R. Toomey (Eds), Computers across the secondary curriculum: A review of research, Melbourne: Deakin University Press, ISBN 0646299034.

ARTICLES

• Niesen, T.W. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2008). The impulse of imaginative education. In R.N. Fitzgerald & T.W. Nielsen (eds). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Imagination and Education, Preface iii-v.

• Haralambous, B. Fitzgerald, R.N. & Nielsen, T.W. (2007). You are now leaving Flatland: Why we need imagination in education, Professional Educator, October, 38-41.

• Haralambous, B., Fitzgerald, R.N. & Nielsen, T.W. (2007). Imagination and Education. Education Review, Brief Note, 17, 6, pg11.

• Telford, R.D.; Bass, S.L.; Budge, M.M.; Byrne, D.G.; Carlson, J.S.; Coles, D; Cunningham, R.B.; Daly, R.M.; Dunstan, D.W.; English, R; Fitzgerald, R.N.; et al (2007). The lifestyle of our kids (LOOK) project: Outline of methods. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 2007 Oct 8;

• Kennedy, D. M., Fitzgerald, R.N. & Lee, K. T. (2005). Enacting government IT in education policy: Designing modules for teacher education in Hong Kong. Journal of APEC Studies, 6, 1, 17-38.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2004). ICT: Chllenges for creative learning. New Horizons in Education, 50, 16-23.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2005). Technology and learning: Game on! Directions in Education, 14, 19, Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL).

• Robson, J., Routcliffe, P. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (1992). Remote schooling and information technology, Education in Rural Australia, 2(2), 33-36.

REFEREED FULL CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Barrass, S. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2008). Social Software: Piloting MyToons As A Digital Learning Community For Teaching New Media To appear in Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (April 2007). A longitudinal study of the use of Integrated Learning Systems (ILS) in the areas of mathematics and reading in selected Australian primary schools. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

• Fiedler, S., Fitzgerald, R.N., Lamb, B., Pata, K., Siemens, G. & Wilson, S. (April 2007). Getting beyond centralized technologies in higher education. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 (pp. 1340-1346). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

• Findlay, J. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2006). Rich design: Engaging students as capable designers and co-creators in auto-catalytic learning contexts. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2006 (pp. 500-506). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

• Fitzgerad, R.N. (2005). Understanding informal learning with technology: Insights for ICT integration. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 948-954). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

• Fitzgerald, R.N., Findlay, J., Forster, A., & Newman, L. (2005). Learner as designer: exploring a collaborative model of instructional design, In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 3872-3878). Norfolk, VA: AACE.

• Kennedy, D. M., Fitzgerald, R.N. & Lee, K. T. (2004). Enacting government IT in education policy: Designing modules for teacher education in Hong Kong. Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Technology (ICET), Singapore, September 9-10, 2004.

• Findlay, J., Fitzgerald, R.N. & Hobby, R.(2004). Learners as customers. Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Technology (ICET), Singapore, September 9-10, 2004.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. & Findlay, J. (2004). A computer-based research tool for rapid knowledge-creation. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2004 (pp. 1979-1984). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

• Elliot, A., Findlay, J., Fitzgerald, R.N. & Forster, A. (2004). Transforming pedagogies using collaborative tools. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2004 (pp. 2565-2569). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

• Gibbons, P., Crawford, K., Crichton, S. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (1999). Cognition and information technologies in context. In T. Downes and D. Watson (Eds), Communications & Networking in Education: Learning in a Networked Society (Pre-conference proceedings), pp. 132-141. IFIP Working Groups 3.1 & 3.5 Open Conference, Aulanko, Hameelinna, Finland, 13-18 June, 1999, Painopaikka Yliopistopaino: Helsinki.

REFEREED SHORT CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Fitzgerald, R.N., Barass, S.,Bruns, A.,Campbel, J.,Miles, A.,Hinton, S.,Whitelaw, M. & Ryan, Y. (2007). Digital Learning Communities (DLC): Investigating the application of social software to support networked learning. Poster presented at ED-MEDIA 2007--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Vancouver, Canada.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. & Findlay, J. (2006). Trasforming a mathematics classroom with new roles, rules and tools. Paper presented at the Transformational Tools for 21st Century Minds (TT21C Conference), 25 - 27 October 2006, Townsville.

• Fitzgerald, R. & Findlay, J. (2006). Learner as researcher: Self-facilitated team investigations. Poster presented at EdMedia Conference, Orlando, Florida.[Ed/ITLib][Export Citation]

• Fitzgerald, R.N. & Sheridan, L. (2006). Advancing professional learning with collaborative technologies. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education & Training.

• Moyle, K.M. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2006). Electronic focus groups: Enhancing participation and collaboration through the use of an electronic team meeting system. Paper presented at the 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference Advances in Qualitative Methods International Interdisciplinary Conference.

• Findlay, J. & Fitzgerald, R. (2005). Achieving group “flow” in high performing e-learning teams: The “missing link” in Activity Theory. Paper presented at the ISCAR'2005: Sixth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory, 20-24 September 2005, Sevilla, Spain.

• Findlay, J. & Fitzgerald, R. (2005). Executive function: Supporting high level consulting and facilitation skills using collaborative software. Paper presented at the ISCAR'2005: Sixth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory, 20-24 September 2005, Sevilla, Spain.

• Findlay, J. & Fitzgerald, R. (2005). Periodicity within large scale cultural transformations. Paper presented at ISCAR'2005: Sixth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory, 20-24 September 2005, Sevilla, Spain.

• Richards, C. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (2004). The challenge of ICT integration in education as a collaborative focus for curriculum transformation. Paper presented at “Teachers as Learners: Building Communities for Professional Development”, International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET) World Assembly, Hong Kong, 13-17 July 2004.

• Findlay, J., Fitzgerald, R.N. & Fleming, D. (2003). Generating genius in collaborative playspaces. Paper presented at "The second wave of ICT in Education: From facilitating teaching and learning to engendering education reform", International Computers in Education Conference (ICCE), Hong Kong, December 2003.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2003). ICT: Learning in context. Paper presented at the Hong Kong Educational Administration International Conference on 'Educational Leadership in the New Millennium: From Teacher Development to School Development', Hong Kong, 7 November 2003.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2003). Technology-rich learning environments (T-RLEs) and some principles of learning in context: The Hong Kong experience. Paper presented to a symposium “Technology-rich learning environments: Exploring their implications for the will to learn” at the Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Padova, Italy, 26-30 August, 2003.

• Richards, C., Fitzgerald, R.N. & Lee, K.T. (2003). The Hong Kong experience: The design of ICT-supported learning activities, communities, and environments. Paper presented at the “Technology-rich learning environments: Exploring their implications for the will to learn” at the Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Padova, Italy, 26-30 August, 2003.

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (1998). Designed interactions: Technology and learners, Paper presented at the 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, August.

RESEARCH REPORTS

• Fitzgerald, R.N. (2006). Final report ACT PICTL Project: Advancing professional learning pedagogies with collaborative knowledge creation technologies. DEST/ACSA, Canberra.

• Fitzgerald, D., Hughes, P., & Fitzgerald, R.N. (1996). An evaluation of computer assisted learning in Victorian schools. Research monograph. Melbourne: Victorian Directorate of School Education.

• Fitzgerald, D. & Fitzgerald, R.N. (1989). Computer activities in New South Wales government schools. Education Management Review (Scott Commission).