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Jen Ross

 
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Jen Ross
Associate Lecturer



Dept of Higher & Community Education
The Moray House School of Education,
The University of Edinburgh,

Paterson's Land (Rm1.36), Holyrood Road,
Edinburgh EH8 8AQ
Scotland, UK



 Email: jen.ross@ed.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 131 651 6133


[ Qualifications ] [ Principal Interests ]
[ Biographical Note ] [ Current and Recent Research ] [ Publications ] [ Further Information ]


Qualifications

    • BA (Hons) Humanities with Literature (Open University)
    • Diploma, Publishing (Napier University)


Principal Interests

Research interests include:

    • Online learning and identity
    • Higher education
    • Reflective practices
    • Museums and cultural and educational institutions online


Biographical Note

I studied literature at McGill University and the Open University, and have been working at the School of Education since 2004. I teach on the MSc in E-learning programme, and also have the role of technical co-ordinator for the MSc. My PhD research project is looking at online reflective practices in higher education. Some of my writing and research papers can be found at www.jenrossity.net.

 

Current and Recent Research

    • Student writing: innovative online strategies for assessment and feedback (Principal Investigator)
    • "Research Perspectives: discussion, debate and dialogue" series for doctoral students and early career researchers in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh (Co-investigator)
    • National Museums Online Learning Project, research strand (Research Associate) www.vam.ac.uk/about_va/online_learning
    • Online reflective practices and performances in Higher Education (PhD research project, University of Edinburgh) www.education.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/PhD-students/profile/jen-ross
    • E-portfolio Research and Development in Education at Edinburgh (Principal Investigator) www.erdee.org.uk

 

Publications

Selected Publications

Macleod, H and Ross, J (forthcoming in 2010). Structure, authority and other noncepts: teaching in fool-ish spaces. In forthcoming Digital differences: perspectives on online education, eds R Land and S Bayne. Rotterdam: Sense.

Bayne, S., Ross, J. and Williamson, Z. (2009), Objects, subjects, bits and bytes: learning from the digital collections of the National Museums, Museum and Society (in press).

Ross, J. (2009). “Was that infinity or affinity?: qualitative research transcription as translation”. Invited seminar at the Translations, Adaptations and Modalities seminar series, Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh. 10 February 2009, Edinburgh.

Ross, J. (2008). “Traces of self: online reflective practices and performances in higher education”. Association for Internet Researchers conference, 16-18 October 2008, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen.

Ross, J., Bayne, S., and Williamson, Z. (2008). Reach, Relevance, Relationship and Recontextualisation: The 4 Rs of Inclusive Online Museum Learning. International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, Vol 1.

More on the School's Publications Database



Further Information

More information on Jen's own website






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