Curriculum Vitae Robert Power Edd
Curriculum Vitae Robert Power Edd
Curriculum Vitae Robert Power Edd
ROBERT POWER
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EDUCATION
2015
2003
2001
1997
1996
AWARDS
2014
2014
2000
1993
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016
2016
2016
2016
Course Consultant
University of Manitoba
Curriculum development and instructional design and development for EDTC 0560:
Using Technology for Teaching and Training, and the Applied Project in Teaching Online
(Capstone) course with Continuing and Professional Studies, Faculty of Extended
Education, at the University of Manitoba.
2015
2015
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Instructional Developer
College of the North Atlantic-Qatar
Worked with course instructors and subject matter experts to develop online content
for blended learning environments using College of the North Atlantic-Qatars
Desire2Learn (D2L) learning management system.
2005 2013
Information Technology Instructor and ICDL Training & Testing Centre Coordinator
College of the North Atlantic-Qatar
Instructed courses in application software, operating systems, Internet applications
development, computer hardware and troubleshooting. Facilitated accreditation and
coordination of the ICDL Training and Testing Centre. Provided professional
development courses in IT skills for faculty, support staff and clients from outside
corporations and state-governed K-12 schools.
2003 2005
2001 2002
1997 2001
Newswriter/Broadcast Journalist
Steele Communications/VOCM Radio
Conducted interviews and wrote news stories for on-air broadcast on VOCM News.
Read on-air news broadcasts. Performed on-the-spot news coverage. Formatted and
uploaded news stories for the VOCM News website.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2015
Lead Researcher
Multi-Institution
Lead researcher for the research study Exploring Teacher Self-Efficacy in an
International MOOC. Study designed to confirm the reliability and construct validity of
the Mobile Teachers Sense of Efficacy Scale (mTSES) instrument, and to use the mTSES
to assess the impact of am international Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) called
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Instructional Design for Mobile Learning (ID4ML) on participants perceptions of selfefficacy with mobile learning teaching strategies.
2014 2015
2014
Research Assistant
Athabasca University, Athabasca, AB, Canada
Research assistant for the Mobile Learning research project partnership between
Athabasca University, Qatar University, Qatar Foundation, and Qatari industry.
Responsibilities included liaising with appropriate administrative and instructional
personnel at College of the North Atlantic-Qatar, and identification of appropriate
student control and experimental groups for participation in portions of the research
study data collection phase taking place on campus at College of the North AtlanticQatar. Responsibilities also included the facilitation of participant instructor and student
briefing sessions, and the administration of pre and post-treatment assessments and
follow-up surveys.
2012
Lead Researcher
College of the North Atlantic-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Lead researcher for a mobile learning research project entitled QR Cache: Assessing the
feasibility of using Quick Response (QR) codes and mobile devices to help students
master computer-related workplace English competencies. Developed a set of mobile
device compatible Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) designed to cover content from the
Hardware Components module of the TPP-MC-105 course. Prepared Research Ethics
Committee and SEED Funding Committee applications. Prepared participant student
and instructor feedback survey instruments. Primary responsibility for conducting data
analysis and preparing final research report(s) and conference presentations.
Supervision of student research assistant from the School of IT, College of the North
Atlantic-Qatar.
2003
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Executive Committee
International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn)
Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee. Responsibilities include contributing to
planning and policy for the Associations ongoing research and professional
development initiatives in partnership with institutions and organizations from around
the world. Responsibilities also include planning and policy related to the Associations
annual mLearn conference series, as well as communications and promotion of the
Association and of mobile and contextual learning research and practical
implementation issues in general.
Conference Organization
2012 2013
2012 2013
Institutional Committees
2014
2011
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2009 2010
Manuscript Reviewing
2014
2014
2013
2013
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives (LTHE: Gulf Perspectives)
Peer review of paper submissions.
2013
2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Educational Technology Courses
(Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, 2016 - )
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Welcome to D2L
Teaching with D2L
Building Courses with D2L
Intermediate/Secondary Courses:
(Eastern School District and Lewisporte-Gander School District, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador)
Communications Technology 3400, John Burke High School, Grand Bank, NL (2003-2005)
English 9, Jane Collins Academy, Hare Bay, NL (2001-2002)
English 1202, Jane Collins Academy, Hare Bay, NL (2001-2002)
English 2101: Research and Writing, Jane Collins Academy, Hare Bay, NL (2001-2002)
English 2204: Canadian Literature, Jane Collins Academy, Hare Bay, NL (2001-2002)
English 3102: Business English, Jane Collins Academy, Hare Bay, NL (2001-2002)
Integrated Systems 1205, John Burke High School, Grand Bank, NL (2003-2005)
Technology 8, John Burke High School, Grand Bank, NL (2003-2005)
Technology 9, John Burke High School, Grand Bank, NL (2003-2005)
Web Masters 3224, John Burke High School, Grand Bank, NL (2003-2005)
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Creating Mobile Reusable Learning Objects Using Collaborative Situated Active Mobile (CSAM)
Learning Strategies (May-June 2014)
o Online professional development course hosted on the Canvas open learning
management system.
o Course designed as part of EdD dissertation research project at Athabasca University,
AB, Canada.
o Participants included professional educators from Canada, the United States, and Qatar.
o Served as subject matter expert, instructional developer and course facilitator.
PUBLICATIONS
Power, R. (in press). Supporting mobile instructional design with CSAM. In Yu, S., Ally, M., & Tsanikos, A.
(Eds), The International Handbook of Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning. Springer.
Power, R., Cristol, D., Gimbert, B., Bartoletti, R, & Kilgore, W. (2016). Using the mTSES to evaluate and
optimize mLearning professional development. The International Review of Research in Open
and Distributed Learning, 17(4). Available from
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2459
Power, R. (2015). A framework for promoting teacher self-efficacy with mobile reusable learning objects
(Doctoral dissertation, Athabasca University). Available from http://hdl.handle.net/10791/63
Power, R. (Ed). (2014). Special issue from the 12th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning.
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 6(4). Available from http://www.igiglobal.com/ijmbl
Power, R., Cristol, D., & Gimbert, B. (2014). Exploring tools to promote teacher efficacy with mLearning.
In M. Kalz, Y. Bayyurt, & M. Specht (Eds), Mobile as a mainstream Towards future challenges in
mobile learning: Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 479, pp. 61-68.
Available from http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-13416-1_7
Power, R. (2013). Book review: Quinn, C. N. (2011), The mobile academy. Learning and Teaching in
Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives, 10(2). Retrieved from
http://lthe.zu.ac.ae/index.php/lthehome/article/view/150/69
Power, R. (2013). Collaborative situated active mobile (CSAM) learning strategies: A new perspective on
effective mobile learning. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives, 10(2).
http://lthe.zu.ac.ae/index.php/lthehome/article/view/137
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Power, R. (2013). Leader-member exchange theory in higher and distance education. The International
Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(4). Retrieved from
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1582
Power, R. (2013, June 19). Mobilizing the MOOC: A review of Instructional Design for Mobile Learning
(IDML13). MOOC News and Reviews. Available
from http://moocnewsandreviews.com/mobilizing-the-mooc-review-of-instructional-design-formobile-learning-idml13/
Power, R. (Ed.), (2013). QScience Proceedings: Vol. 2013, 12th World Conference on Mobile and
Contextual Learning (mLearn 2013). Retrieved from
http://www.qscience.com/toc/qproc/2013/3
Power, R. (2013). Targeting FRAME: A new tool for mLearning design. QScience Proceedings: Vol. 2013,
12th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2013), 34. DOI:
10.5339/qproc.2013.mlearn.34
Power, R. (2012). QR Cache: Assessing the feasibility of using Quick Response (QR) codes and mobile
devices to help students master computer-related workplace English competencies. Available
from http://qrcache.pbworks.com
Power, R, (2012). QR Cache: Connecting mLearning practice with theory. In M. Specht, M. Sharples & J.
Miltisilta (Eds.). Proceedings of the 11th Annual World Conference on Mobile and Contextual
Learning (mLearn 2012) held in Helsinki, Finland, 16-18 October 2012 (pp. 346-349). Retrieved
from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-955/
Power, R. & Murphy, E. (2004). Broadband in teaching and learning in Newfoundland and Labrador. The
Morning Watch (Winter 2004). Available from
http://www.mun.ca/educ/faculty/mwatch/win04/murphypower.htm
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Power, R., Ally, M., & Cristol, D. (2015, October 18). Cooking to go: Creating an open-access, interactive
mobile pedagogy cookbook. Workshop presentation at the 14th World Conference on Mobile
and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2015), 17-24 October, 2015, Venice, Italy.
Power, R. (2015, October 12). Instructional design and mobile technologies. Workshop presentation for
the Doha eLearning Developers Guild.
Power, R. (2015, May 22). Instructional design for mobile learning. Webinar presentation for
Instructional Design for Mobile Learning. https://youtu.be/RdDg0Fs-3No
Power, R. (2015). mLearning research: Moving forward. Guest lecture presentation for Teaching and
Research with Mobile Learning, University of Western Australia. Retrieved from
https://youtu.be/goQ6MNrjKSQ
Power, R., & Koole, M. (2015, April 22). Apps for learning English (App-LE): How mobile learning can
enhance teaching and learning in ESL. Webinar presentation for TESL Ontario.
https://tutela.ca/EventsGroup?organicgroup=8594&cat=518&defaultcat[437]=518
Power, R., Cristol, D., & Gimbert, B. (2014, November). Using free tools and a pedagogical framework to
promote teacher efficacy with mLearning. Workshop presentation at the 13th World Conference
on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2014), 3-5 November, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
Retrieved from http://iamlearn.net/workshop-5-using-free-tools-and-a-pedagogical-frameworkto-promote-teacher-efficacy-with-mlearning/
Power, R. (2014, May). Framing instructional design for collaborative RLOs with the CSAM framework.
Presentation at the Advanced Distributed Learning Groups 2014 Interagency Mobile Learning
Webinar Series, 20-22 May, 2014. Retrieved from http://www.adlnet.gov/interagency-mobilelearning-webinar-series-2014/schedule/
Power, R. (2014, April). Future trends in mobile learning. Guest lecture presentation for A World of
Mobile Learning 2014, University of Western Australia, April 2014. Retrieved from
http://youtu.be/ZySfdhuGerE
Power, R. (2013, November). Create your own mobile RLOs and get your students doing it too!
Workshop presentation at Teaching with Technology 2013, 26-28 November, 2013, Clarenville,
Newfoundland, Canada.
Power, R. (2013, September). Creating mobile RLOs (reusable learning objects) using Collaborative
Situated Active Mobile (CSAM) learning strategies. Webinar presentation for participants in the
University of British Colombia Master of Education program, Fall 2013.
Power, R. (2013, April). Collaborative Situated Active Mobile (CSAM) learning strategies: A new
perspective on effective mobile learning. Presentation at the Mobile Learning: Gulf Perspectives
Research Symposium, April 25, 2013, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Power, R. (2013, April). Creating your own mobile reusable learning objects for situated active
mLearning. Workshop presentation at the Technology in Higher Education 2013 (THE2013)
conference, April 16-17, 2013, Doha, Qatar.
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Power, R. (2012, October). QR Cache: Linking mLearning theory to practice in Qatar. Qatar Foundation
Annual Research Forum Proceedings, 2012(CSP31). DOI: 10.5339/qfarf.2012.CSP31. Retrieved
from http://www.qscience.com/doi/abs/10.5339/qfarf.2012.CSP31
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The use of mobile devices for the dissemination of learning materials, increasing collaboration
between learners and instructors, and the facilitation of situated learning strategies
The use of information and communication technology to increase academic collaboration
between educators and students
The effective use of information and communication technology to enhance face-to-face,
distributed, and blended learning.
TEACHING INTERESTS
REFERENCES
Dr. Paula Hayden, Director of Teacher Education, Nova Scotia Department of Education and
Early Childhood Development, [email protected]
Dr. Mohamed Ally, Professor, Center for Distance Education / Researcher, Technology Enhanced
Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI), Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada, 1-866916-8650 [email protected]
Dr. Dean Cristol, Associate Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, College of
Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, 419-995-9274 [email protected]
Professor John Traxler, Professor of Mobile Learning, University of Wolverhampton,
Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, +01902-328591, [email protected]
Dr. Elizabeth Murphy, Retired Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, (709) 764-4344, [email protected]