The Moray House School of Education
Staff Profiles

Qualifications

• MA (Hons) English Literature
• PhD 'Learning Cultures in Cyberspace'

Principal Interests

• Online education
• Digital cultural studies in relation to education
• Discourse, narrative and textual analytic approaches to educational research

Research Supervision

I would welcome dialogue with potential students interested in researching areas relating to e-learning and the effects of digitisation and online communication on post-school education. I currently supervise:

• Michela Clari
• Jen Ross
• Chien-Chen Yang

Current and Recent Research

• AHRC 'Beyond Text' Collaborative studentship: Doctoral student: Michela Clari
• National Museums Online Learning Project, research strand (Principal Investigator)
• Putting Web 2.0 to work: new pedagogies for new learning spaces. Higher Education Academy funded. (Co-investigator)
• Learner identities in transition. British Academy funded. (Principal Investigator)
  
  

Publications

Selected Publications:

Bayne, S (2008) Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds. Alt-J, Research in Learning Technology. Vol 16, No 3, September 2008, 197-205.

Bayne, S (2008) Higher education as a visual practice: seeing through the virtual learning environment, Teaching in Higher Education, August 2008, Vol 13, issue 4, 395-410.

Land, R and Bayne S (2006) Issues in cyberspace education in Maggi Savin-Baden (ed) Problem-based learning online. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Bayne, S (2006) Temptation, trash and trust: the authorship and authority of digital texts, E-learning, vol 3, issue 1.

More on the School's Publications Database

Further Information

More information on Siân's own website