Adjunct Professor
Rod Nason
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Personal details
Keywords
Education in prisons, Information technology in education & training, Mathematics education
Research field
Education Systems, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Specialist Studies in Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Deakin University)
- MEdSt (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
- Psychologists in Mathematic Education (PME)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
- Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT)
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
- Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)
- Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers (QAMT)
- Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
- Computer Human Interface Special Interest Group – IEEE Computer Society
Teaching
- Experience of undergraduate and graduate teaching in 4 universities and 2 CAEs in Faculties of Education. Substantive areas of teaching are Mathematics Education, Information and Communication Technologies in Education, and Research Design and Methods
- Supervision of 12 PhD, 2 EdD, 5 MEd(Research) and 2 BEd (Research Pathways) students. Currently supervising 4 PhD and 3 EdD students.
- Positive evaluations of teaching from Undergraduate Students
- Positive evaluations of supervision from Research Pathways and Postgraduate Students
- Team teaching member of Ed.D ? Australia `s most successful program of its kind.
- Innovative use of information and communication technologies to improve quality of learning
- Innovative use of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments within undergraduate and postgraduate programs
- Introduction of innovative program to address needs of pre-service primary teacher education students with inadequate repertoires of mathematics subject-matter knowledge
- Introduction of innovative program to address needs of math-anxious pre-service primary teacher education students
- Introduction of research apprenticeship program for undergraduate students considering a research pathway in their careers.
- QUT Teaching and Learning Grant: Academic Literacies - Transition from student to scholar. $10 000 (2007-08)
Teaching strategy
- Close nexus between research and teaching: I am a researcher who considers that his research is enriched through a ceaseless dialectic between the creation of knowledge and its dissemination through supervision and teaching.
- Utilisation of innovative Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning environments to facilitate knowledge-building by pre-service and postgraduate students
- Utilisation of powerful and innovative information and communication tools to facilitate knowledge-building by pre-service and postgraduate students
- Integration of undergraduate and postgraduate students into my research program. Seven APAI applications included for current ARC Discovery and Linkage rounds.
Aims
- To focus more on the development of metacognitive knowledge in pre-service mathematics education units
- To integrate school-based research with pre-service mathematics education units
- To focus on the development of positive identities by mathematically-anxious pre-service teacher education students as users and teachers of mathematics
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Rod, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).