Institute of Teaching and Learning
Mary DRACUP
Present position
Lecturer
Contact details
Campus: Waterfront
Room: D2.113
Tel: (+61) (+3) 522 78144
Fax: (+61) (+3) 522 78129
Email: mary.dracup@deakin.edu.au
Qualifications
BA(English)
GDipEd
MEd(ITEd)
Professional memberships
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Online and Distance Learning Association of Australasia (ODLAA)
Current and recent projects
Just-in-time academic support and training in the use of online technologies for teaching and learning
Online educational design advice and concept development
Unit team member in the Graduate Certificate in Online Education unit Specialist Studies in Tertiary Teaching and Learning
Design and development of online professional development resources and modules including:
- Online teaching exemplars
- Teaching and learning with social software
- Teaching and learning online professional development program
- Dealing with plagiarism in assessment
- Plagiarism and collusion self-test
Interests
Educational design and development
I am interested in many aspects of educational design, particularly in the use of online technologies to facilitate and promote engaging learning conversations. I believe online technologies can be used to enhance student learning in many ways, provided they are chosen carefully and applied with clear intentions, informed by a strong sense of learning design and used with a critical eye to their impact on student learning.
Research
PhD thesis: The impact of story in online role play
I am currently working part time as I complete my PhD. My topic involves researching story-based teaching and learning techniques, and in particular how online role plays may be designed and managed effectively to maximise the engaging qualities of the interactive dramatic stories that underlie these techniques. I am also researching various ways in which a poststructuralist approach may be used with online role play.
Publications
Journal articles
Dracup, M. (2008), 'Role play in blended learning: A case study exploring the impact of story and other elements'. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 24(3), 294-310. http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet24/dracup.html
Conference papers
Dracup, M. (2010), 'Reshaping dominant stories: A poststructuralist approach to online role play'. Paper presented to HERDSA Conference, Melbourne, July http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2010/program/concurrent4.html#dracup
Dracup, M. (2009), 'Story as a vehicle for learning in online role play: a case study', Paper presented to AARE Conference, Canberra, December. http://www.aare.edu.au/09pap/dra091362.pdf
Atkinson, K., Fluker, G., Ngo, L., Dracup, M. & McCormick, P. (2009), 'Introducing a learning repository using a blended professional development approach', in Same places, different spaces. Proceedings ascilite Auckland 2009. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/procs/atkinson.pdf
Augar, N., Atkinson, K., Dracup, M., Hanner, A. and Williams, T. (2008), 'Teaching and Learning 2.0: Integrating Social Software with the Blackboard Academic suite™', paper presented at the BbWorld®AsiaPac'08, Adelaide, September.
Conference workshops
Augar, N., Atkinson, K., Dracup, M. and Samarawickrema, G.(2008), 'Teaching and Learning 2.0', workshop presented at the ASCILITE 2008 Conference, Melbourne, December.
