Associate Professor Margaret Lloyd

Dr Margaret Lloyd is an Associate Professor in the School of Maths, Science and Technology Education, QUT, with a specialisation in ICT education with specific responsibility for secondary computing curriculum studies. She has taken a leading role in ICT curriculum design and has co-authored an ICT textbook for junior secondary students.

In 2007, QSITE named her as the Outstanding Leader in ICT and she was nominated for a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.  In 2009, she won an individual ALTC Teaching Excellence Award (for Social Sciences including Education).

Other roles include

• Co-editor, Journal of Learning Design http://www.jld.qut.edu.au
• Director of Oz-teachers, the group which oversees the Oz-TeacherNet
• List Manager for Oz-teachers and ICT-research communities
• Past prior State Review Panel Chair for Information Processing and Technology (IPT)
• Member of the Queensland Studies Authority’s P-12 Technologies Committee
• Chair, sub-committee, QSA’s Information and Communication Technology Education (ICTE) syllabus
• Leader, Advocacy Committee, Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education (QSITE)
• Faculty of Education representative on QUT’s eResearch Working Party
• Member of both the University Academic Board and University Appeals Committee.

Dr Lloyd’s doctoral dissertation was a critical history of computer education in Queensland (1983-1997). Her current research interests include:

• the dynamics of online communication
• the measurement of integration of ICT in the classroom
• the definition of effective professional development for teachers.

She is the Project Leader of the National Support Network which underpins the national Teaching Teachers for the Future Project. She is also currently involved in a research project concerned with ICT in the classroom, funded by the Norwegian Research Council.