Identity, Pedagogy and Technology-enhanced Learning: Supporting the Processes of Becoming a Tradesperson: 27 (Professional and Practice-based Learning)

Dr Selena Chan is an educational developer at Ara Institute of Canterbury (formerly Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology – CPIT), where she focuses on curriculum and learning design with teaching teams and supports the implementation of technology-enhanced learning. This work is undertaken across a range of vocational education discipline areas, and from the first-year to post-graduate levels of learning. Her research projects include studies on the perspectives of trade practitioners who become trade teachers; the perspectives of apprentices on how they go about learning a trade; the importance and support of peer learning in vocational learning; the design, development and implementation of a range of technologies to enhance vocational learning including mobile phones, tablets and social networking platforms; and the role of e-assessments in helping learners satisfy New Zealand’s graduate profile outcome-based qualifications. Selena has also published extensively in Vocational Education journals and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training and the International Journal of Training Research.