Associate Professor Dorit Maor
Murdoch University | Associate Professor
Specialises in technology, pedagogy, and online learning; e-learning in higher education and hospital school settings.
Dorit Maor has over two decades of research and teaching in educational technology and has supervised many doctoral students to completion. Her teaching and research expertise is in the area of eLearning, in particular the integration of innovative pedagogies with new technologies and the changing roles of the teacher and the learner with the use of social learning. Dorit turned her online teaching experience into research on how to optimise teachers’ online pedagogies and how to create a community of learners to achieve cognitive gain. Her innovative approach to teaching led to 2012 Australian Award for University Teaching from the Office for Learning and Teaching for outstanding contribution to student learning: For creating innovative pedagogies using new technologies to promote reflection, peer learning and collaboration.
In her research capacity she was a leader and a team member in competitive funded projects investigating student study behaviours in blended-learning environments to enhance retention. Her interest in combining pedagogies and technology for higher degree supervision led to an 2012 competitive research grant from the Office for Learning and Teaching: Design of a participatory super-vision support platform for improving higher degree supervision. Previously she was a chief investigator of an ARC linkage grant and number of other ARC grants with the focus of learning technologies. Her rigour qualitative research approach resulted in publications in refereed journals, book chapters and conference presentations.
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As part of the Young and Well CRC her research focused on vulnerable young people in hospital and the use of mobile technologies.