Dr Maggie Hartnett PhD, MEd

Contact details

• Ph: 84409
  Location: 305, Collinson Village
  Campus: Manawatu

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy - Massey University (2011)
• Master of Education - Massey University (2007)

Prizes and Awards

• The article titled: “Using Education Theory and Research to Refine Agricultural Extension: Affordances and Barriers for Farmers’ Learning and Practice Change” (ORO10) was chosen as the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension (JAEE) Education and Learning Sciences best article for the year 2017. The paper examines the factors that support and hinder farmers’ learning and investigates farmers' actual practice changes having participated in our socioculturally informed learning programme. The affordances for learning and practice change include: belonging in a learning community, enhancing self-efficacy, engaging with scientists, and reinforcing and validating learning Our team won the JAEE 'paper of the year 2017', with journal editor Angela Pachuau, saying: “The Editorial committee congratulate you and your co-authors for presenting an interesting paper. Your research provides useful insight with a deliberate attempt to advance educational theory in the field of agricultural extension.” (28 November, 2017) This wider research project has impacted the learning and practice of 45 farmers and has led to 10 conference presentations (nationally and internationally) and 6 publications in conference proceedings. - Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension Wageningen University & Research, Social Sciences Gp (2017)
• Received International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning editors’ choice Best Article, 2011 award for “Examining motivation in online distance learning environments: Complex, multifaceted and situation-dependent” (see N01). The award was based on quality, relevance and value to the discipline as well as the number of times the article has been downloaded. - (2011)

Research Interests

My research focuses on the intersection of technologies and pedagogies and their influence on learners’ and teachers’ experiences, motivation, engagement and behaviour in technology enhanced, mediated and immersive learning contexts. Her research interests include motivation and engagement in digital environments, teaching and learning with digital technologies, support for digital learners and teachers, digital inclusion, digital places and spaces of learning that encompasses new learning environments, emerging digital technologies including open digital badges, teacher and learner experiences in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and the use of digital tools in learning such as electronic portfolios and mobile technologies. My research interests are not confined to formal learning settings but span a wide range of places and spaces for learning.

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Curriculum and Pedagogy (130200): Education (130000): Education Systems (130100): Educational Technology and Computing (130306): Higher Education (130103): Primary Education (excl. Maori) (130105): Secondary Education (130106): Specialist Studies in Education (130300)

Keywords

e-learning, elearning, online, technologies, technology, digital, motivation, digital badges, MOOCs, engagement, portfolios, teaching, learning, learners, teachers, distributed, education, mobile learning, openness

Completed Projects

Courses Coordinated

• 261.764 Foundations of Digital Education
• 261.766 Teaching and Digital Education
• 267.860 Professional Inquiry
• 267.861 Professional Inquiry

Current Doctoral Supervision

Supervisor of:

• Kirstine White - Doctor of Philosophy
  How can the Maori values contained within the Te Atakura professional development programme be incorporated in an online teaching and learning model?
• Victoria Macann - Doctor of Philosophy
  The impact of the introduction of Digital Technologies in the New Zealand Curriculum in schools.

Co-supervisor of:

• Evelyn Lewis - Doctor of Philosophy
  The relationship between self-regulated learning and the use of open digital badges in an online learning environment.
• Doug Drysdale - Doctor of Philosophy
  Farmers' efficacy, learning and practice change in an agricultural extension context.

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Supervisor of:

• 2017 - Bridget Percy - Doctor of Education
  Moments of clarity: A study of Higher Education Teachers' Professional Learning Experiences

Media

• 05 Jul 2016 - Magazine
  Motivation in Online education
  Education Review Series: Postgraduate & Research
• 03 Apr 2016 - Newspaper
  Teenagers as digital natives 'a myth'
  Sunday Start Times Newspaper article (p. A5)

Other Links

• Radio New Zealand National interview 28 July 2014 - The limitations of technology in the classroom: digital devices and deeper learning
• News article 6 July 2014 - Classrooms flooded with devices
• Newspaper article Sunday Star Times 3 April 2016 - Teenagers as digital natives 'a myth'