Gary Motteram, MEd, BA, Dip TEFLA
Senior Lecturer in Education
Main research interests: Technology in language education; distance teacher education; e-learning
Main teaching interests:
Most of my teaching is on our two Masters degrees in Educational Technology and TESOL and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).
International experience:
Azerbaijan, Brazil, Germany, China, Indonesia, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Poland, Portugal, Tunisia.
Selected recent publications:
2000: Brett, P. and Motteram, G. (Eds). (2000). A special interest in computers: learning and teaching with information and communications technologies. Whitstable: IATEFL.
2000: "Developing links into chain reactions: the critical role of collaboration in moving from training to research" in Beaumont, M. and O'Brien, T. (Eds). (2000). Collaborative research in 2nd language education. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham.
2001: "The role of synchronous communication in fully distance education" Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 17(2), 131-149.
2003: "The internet, information literacies and task-based language learning: a practical guide to using ICT in secondary schools" published in Morrison, B, Green, C and Motteram, G. (2003). Directions in CALL: Experience, experiments and evaluation. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Forthcoming: "Reconstructing practice: a case study in language teacher education and ICT". To be published in a collection edited by Phil Hubbard and Mike Levy. Publisher is John Benjamins. Due for publication 2006.
Papers under review
"'Blended' education and the transformation of teachers: a long-term case study in postgraduate UK higher education"
[Currently under review with British Journal of Educational Technology]
Motteram, G. & Forrester, G. "Becoming an online distance learner: what can be learned from students' experiences of induction to distance programmes?"
[Currently under review with Distance Education]
Forrester, G., Motteram, G., Parkinson, G. & Slaouti, D. "Going the distance: students' experiences of induction to distance learning in higher education".
[Currently under review with Teaching in Higher Education]