Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Mira Vogel

Mira Vogel is an Academic Developer specialising in Technology Enhanced Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is involved in a variety of academic development activities for teaching and learning with technologies in Higher Education. Particular interests include tools and practices for transferable skills, emerging literacies, and individual and institutional barriers to integrating new technologies and ways of working into existing practice.

Academic qualifications

• Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching; Educational and Staff Development, Queen Mary, University of London; 2004.
• Doctorate: Web-based health promotion for people with high blood pressure; Centre for Measurement and Information in Medicine, City University, London; 2005.
  

Teaching

• Experience designing, actualising and running learning activities and resources, online and offline, including: workshops and sessions on different aspects of teaching and learning with technologies; 2004 -;online PBL scenarios for medical undergraduates 2002-2004; workshop for the Association of Learning Technologists on Advanced Moodle. 16th Feb 2005, Kings College, London; workshops on information and communication technology skills for Senior House Officers at Mile End Hospital; 2000-2003.
• Tutor, Introduction to PCs and Windows. Department of Continuing Education, City University, London. Design and delivery of twelve-session programme for adult learners; 1997-2000
• Trained facilitator of Problem Based Learning modules for medical undergraduates (Years 1-3); 2002-2004
• Commitment to and experience in involving learners and users at all stages of development, using a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Presentations and exhibitions

Wiki pedagogies

• M25 Learning Technologies Group, 29th November 2010
• Slides
  

Goldsmiths, learning, teaching and Web 2.0

• International Debate Education Association exchange, 12th & 23th December, 2009
• Slides
  

Grants & awards

• Engaging academic development for technology-enhanced learning; Higher Education Academy; £2,500
  
• Engaging academics in professional development activities for e-learning; 2009; Higher Education Academy; £3,500
  
• Designing for Learning in Virtual Learning Environments; 2005-6; JISC; £20,000.
• Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning; Goldsmiths, University of London; 2006.
• Drapers’ Award for the Development of Teaching and Learning; Queen Mary, University of London; 2004.

Keynote lectures

eLearning 2.0 Conference
Brunel University, 6th&7th July, 2011

Conferences

Sharing the Load

9th November 2006

Teachers and learners collaborate to design learning activities.

Part of a national research project, the objective was to capture real-world learning designs so that subsequently their re-use coudl be explored. Practitioners and students were facilitated in engaging hands-on workshops to experiment with learning design tools and templates and collaboratively create shareable learning designs. The workshops were based upon the acclaimed UCeL "unlocking content" workshops where participants worked collaboratively in small groups facilitated by roving presenters.

M25 Learning Technologists Meet-Up

9th May 2008

The topic for the meeting was the 'future of e-learning'. The sessions began with presentations from:

• 'The future of the Learning Technologist' - Julie Voce and Peter Wren (Imperial College London)
• 'Diagnostic, formative and summative assessment in the Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford' - Vivien Sieber (University of Oxford)
• 'Web 2.0 developments in the Bloomsbury Colleges' - Sarah Sherman (Bloomsbury Colleges)

Papers presented

• Vogel M (2007). Disruptive institutions. CAL 2007: development, disruption and debate. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 2007 March 26-28.
• Vogel M et al (2004). Clinical attachments, e-learning and PBL. Association for Medical Education in Europe 2004. Edinburgh, Scotland. 2004 September 5-8.
• Vogel MA and Bennett GCJ. Course notes to courseware. GeriatrixAfrica ‘03, Cape Town, South Africa.  2002 March 6-8.
• Vogel M and Bennett GCJ.  Course notes to courseware: study guides in health care of older People.  NHS Modernisation Agency – Modernising Older People’s Services.  Brighton, England.  2002 November 5-6.
• Wilmes B, Vogel MA, Bennett GCJ and Radhamanohar M. Web-/kiosk-based health information on falls delivered to older people in Tower Hamlets. HCI 2002: A new research agenda for older adults.  London, England.  2002 September 3.
• Vogel MA and Bennett GCJ.  Web- and Kiosk-Based Consumer Health Information on Preventing Falls.  Valencia Forum.  Valencia, Spain. 2002 April 1-4.
• Vogel MA, Bennett GCJ, Gompertz P, Fullerton K.  Course notes to courseware: Health Care of Older People.  Valencia Forum.  Valencia, Spain. 2002 April 1-4.
• Vogel MA and Bennett GCJ.  Course notes to courseware: CD-ROM project in health care of older people.  5^th National Conference on Care of Elderly People.  2001 December 10-11. 
• Vogel MA and Bennett GCJ. Elder abuse: a CD-ROM educational tool.  International Training Congress for Medical Students; 2001 August 4-12; Aalborg, Denmark. 2001.
• Vogel MA, Wood D.  Course notes to courseware: CD-ROM project in health care of older people.  In: Members’ Abstracts: Association for the Study of Medical Education Annual Scientific Meeting; 2001 July 11-13; Dublin, Ireland. 2001. 
• Vogel MA. Pitfalls of using the Internet for health information.  International Training Congress for Medical Students; 2001 August 4-12; Aalborg, Denmark. 2001.
• Vogel MA.  Computer assisted learning for medical students.  International Training Congress for Medical Students; Aalborg, Denmark 2001 August 4-12.
• Bennett GCJ and Vogel MA.  Elder abuse: a CD-ROM educational tool.  In: Meier-Ruge W, Andrews J, Ermini M, Luszcz M, Ingram D, editors.  Abstracts: 17^th World Congress of the International Association of Gerontology; Vancouver, Canada. 2001 July 1-6. 2001. p278
• Vogel MA and Bennett GCJ.  Course notes to courseware: computer-based education in health care of older people.  In: Meier-Ruge W, Andrews J, Ermini M, Luszcz M, Ingram D, editors.  Abstracts: 17^th World Congress of the International Association of Gerontology; 2001 July 1-6; Vancouver, Canada.  2001. p491

Research interests

Designing for learning in virtual learning environments; engaging academic staff in professional and educational development for online learning; technology-enhanced feedback; the relationship between collaborative work and assessment.

Selected publications

• Vogel M (2010). Engaging academics for professional development for technology-enhanced learning. Report for the Higher Education Academy. Available from: http://search3.openobjects.com/kb5/hea/evidencenet/resource.page?record=dsOQE2oavO0
• Oliver M, Vogel M and Carr D (2009) Representing Pedagogy. In: iPED Research Network (Eds) (2009) Academic Futures: Inquiries into Higher Education and Pedagogy. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Masterman L and Vogel M (2007). Researching the practices of designing for learning. In: Beetham H and Sharpe R (2007). Design for learning: rethinking pedagogy in the digital age. London: Routledge (in print).
• Vogel M (2007). Cure worse than the disease: academic boycott of Israel in the light of the academic boycott of South Africa. Engage Journal;4. Available from: http://www.engageonline.org.uk/journal/.
• Vogel M and Oliver M (2006). Designing for learning in virtual learning environments – insider perspectives. Project Report. Available from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/D4L_VLE_report_final.pdf.
• Wilmes B, Radhamanohar M, Vogel M, Bennett G, Underwood M (2004). Web/kiosk-based health information on falls delivered to older people in Tower Hamlets. Involving users in the development of consumer health information on falls: outcomes and experiences. London: Institute of Health Sciences, Queen Mary, University. ISBN 1 898661 99 5.
• Vogel MA and Wood DF.  Love it or hate it?  Medical students’ attitudes to computer assisted learning.   Medical Education 2002;36:214-215
• Vogel MA and Bennett GCJ.  Producing a multimedia CD-ROM.  In: Richardson P (ed) A guide to Medical Publishing and Writing.  2002.  Wiltshire:  Quay Books.  pp89-109
• Vogel MA and Bennett CJG.  Producing a multimedia CD-ROM.  Hospital Medicine 2001;62(8):492-497