• Analysis of academic procrastination in professional students of a tertiary training programme 

      Han, Binglan; Li, F.; Parsons, David (2019-05)
      Academic procrastination is a common behavior among tertiary students. In particular, parttime adult students who undergo professional training usually find it very difficult to balance tertiary study, work, and family ...
    • Bring your own device classroom : issues of digital divides in teaching and learning contexts 

      Adhikari, Janak; Mathrani, Anuradha; Parsons, David (Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 2015-12)
      Technology mediated learning provides potentially valuable resources for learners’ academic and social development. However, according to recent researches, as the adoption stages of ICTs advance there arises further levels ...
    • Can we improve participation in university course surveys using mobile tools? : a practical experiment 

      Parsons, David; Rees, M. (2014-12)
      Student course surveys provide an important feedback mechanism for universities. However the quality of this feedback depends largely on the level of participation. New technologies have enabled course surveys to evolve ...
    • Creating learning connections via an online community of practice : a case study. 

      Vo, Darcy; Pham, Truman; Parsons, David (Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology (Rotorua, N.Z.), 2016-10)
      The Digital and Collaborative Learning postgraduate programme of The Mind Lab by Unitec not only provides teachers with transformational approaches to 21st‐century learning, but also with opportunities to create connections ...
    • Digital fluency and the entitlement curriculum : who are the computational thinkers? 

      Parsons, David; Thomas, H.; Lynch, J.; MacCallum, K. (Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ), 2018-04)
      The concept of a digital curriculum has been discussed widely both nationally and internationally in recent years. In New Zealand, the 2017 Digital Curriculum (Hangarau Matihiko) outlined a vision for two technology areas ...
    • The Digital Passport 

      Thorn, R.; Sorkin, M.; Murray, S.; Parsons, David (2018-10)
      ● Purpose ● Technology for Learning ● Creative Process ● The Digital Passport ● Results / Feedback [The Digital Passport is a simple, fun on-line course to assist Year 1-10 teachers to unpack terminology, gain ...
    • Exploring mobile affordances in the digital classroom 

      Parsons, David; Thomas, H.; Wishart, Jocelyn (2016-04)
      What's the mobile affordance? *Affordances are potential actions and interactions that the environment offers *What does this mean in the age of the ubiquitous tablet and smartphone, the GoPro, the drone? *What are the ...
    • Hack education : crowdsourcing the future of education in New Zealand 

      Parsons, David; Lynch, J.; Han, Binglan; Thorn, R. (Unitec ePress, 2017-12)
      Crowdsourcing is a twenty-first century phenomenon that relies on Web 2.0 technologies to enable the public to contribute to data gathering by organisations. It offers new ways of researching emerging topics that leverage ...
    • Innovative learning opportunities with virtual reality game development 

      MacCallum, K.; Parsons, David; Crow, T. (2019-05)
      This article outlines a case study of a team of secondary school students creating a commercially deployed immersive Virtual Reality (VR) game as part of their learning. Given the limited amount of relevant literature on ...
    • Leading technology innovation : when seeing is believing 

      Thomas, H.; Baker, Karen; Parsons, David; Pham, Truman; Vo, Darcy (Unitec ePress, 2017-12)
      The literature on the professional development of primary and secondary teachers suggests that isolated initiatives are not effective in bringing about changes in teachers’ practices and beliefs. Research argues that changes ...
    • A mobile sensor activity for ad-hoc groups 

      Parsons, David; Thomas, H.; Inkila, Milla (2016)
      Designing mobile learning activities requires us to consider which key affordances of mobile devices can support the optimum learning experience. This short paper reports on the design and testing of a BYOD mobile learning ...
    • Navigating learning worlds 

      Parsons, David; Inkila, Milla; Lynch, J. (2017-05)
      Research context The reality continuum Pedagogical issues Tools used: Actionbound, Google Expeditions, Google Tour Builder (Beta) Results Physical accessibility The extent of world knowledge Scripts and ...
    • An online learning platform to teach teachers : the Digital Passport 

      Parsons, David (2018-11)
      [The Digital Passport is a simple, fun on-line course to assist Year 1-10 teachers to unpack terminology, gain expertise, and develop the confidence to use technology to enhance learning].
    • Teacher perspectives on augmented reality : the potential of Metaverse for learning 

      MacCallum, K.; Parsons, David (International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn), 2019-09)
      Augmented Reality (AR) assumes that virtual content is intermediated between the viewer and the real world, but the extent of that intermediation, and the ways in which it is intended to enhance the real-world experience, ...
    • A Theory-ology of mobile learning : operationalizing learning theories with mobile activities 

      MacCallum, K.; Parsons, David (International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn), 2016-10)
      Theory is often neglected when planning and analysing mobile learning projects, beyond perhaps a brief but unexamined list of learning theories in the introductions to articles. Theory is, however, important since it ...