Professor in Open, Digital, and Distance Education
Contact information
Email: debrah@athabascau.ca
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I research and teach in the areas of appropriate technologies in education, open, flexible and blended learning and pedagogy, and appropriate technologies for intercultural education and learning in the MEd and EdD programs in the CDE. Previously I have taught in LOTE/TESOL Education at the Queensland University of Technology, and the Applied Linguistics program at Queensland University in Australia where I was involved in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of language teacher education, innovative and flexible pedagogies, and the integration of technology in language teaching and learning. Other places I have taught include Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan.
My major current areas of research interest are in digital storytelling to support success in Indigenous education and educational leadership, ePortfolios as a tool to develop critical reflection, Indigenous research methodologies, doctoral student persistence and success, and Ecological Constructivism as a learning theory that fits with contemporary understandings of how people learn, particularly in online, blended and mobile environments.
I have held numerous research and teaching development grants, particularly relating to interculturally-appropriate uses of technology in learning and teaching, digital storytelling, and flexible and emerging pedagogies.
1987 Royal Society of Arts (London) Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Second Language (Further and Continuing Education)
1984 Bachelor of Educational Studies (Queensland), (specializing in curriculum design, development and evaluation, and educational psychology with particular reference to learning styles and FLL and Special Education)
1974 Bachelor of Arts (Queensland), (double major in German and Japanese)
Professional affiliations
Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
Queensland College of Teachers (QCT)
Nordic Education Research Association (NERA)
Canadian Social Sciences in Higher Education (CSSHE)
International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
Books (double-blind peer reviewed)
Trimmer, K., Hoven, D., & Keskitalo, P. (Eds. 2020). Indigenous postgraduate education: Intercultural perspectives. Published in the series Research in Multicultural Education and International Perspectives by IAP (USA).
Selected Book Chapters
Hoven, D., Al Tawil, R., Johnson, K., Pawlitschek, N., & Wilton, D. (2020). The Impact of a Cohort Model for Online Doctoral Student Retention and Success. In D. Glick, A. Cohen, & C. Chang (Eds.). Early Warning Systems and Targeted Interventions for Student Success in Online Courses. IGI Global., pp. 113-139.
Hoven, D. (2020). Lifelong and life-wide learning: The transformative role of e-portfolios in online graduate education. In Susan M. Brigham, Robert McGray & Kaela Jubas (Eds.) Adult education and lifelong learning in Canada: Critical legacy. Thompson Educational Publishing, pp. 210-220.
Trimmer, K., Hoven, D., & Keskitalo, P. (2020). Indigenous postgraduate education: Intercultural perspectives. In K. Trimmer, D. Hoven, & P. Keskitalo (Eds.) Indigenous postgraduate education: Intercultural perspectives. Published in the series Research in Multicultural Education and International Perspectives by IAP (USA), pp 3-14.
Palalas, A. & Hoven, D. (2013). Implications of using DBR to investigate the iterative design of a mobile-enabled language learning system. Chapter 5 in Rodriguez, J. & Pardo-Ballester, C. (Eds.), Design Based Research in CALL. CALICO Monograph Series Volume 11, pp. 41-66.
Hoven, D. & Palalas, A. (2013). The design of effective mobile-enabled tasks for ESP students: A longitudinal study. Chapter in Hubbard, P., Schulze, M. & Smith, B. (Eds.), A Festschrift in honor of Robert Fischer. CALICO Monograph, pp. 137-165.
Mirriahi, N., Dawson, S., and Hoven, D. (2012). Identifying key actors for technology adoption in higher education: A social network approach. In M. Brown, M. Hartnett & T. Stewart (Eds.), Future challenges, sustainable futures. Proceedings ascilite Wellington, 2012, pp. 664-574
Hoven, D. & Palalas, A. (2011). (Re)Conceptualizing Design Approaches for Mobile Language Learning. Special Issue of CALICO Journal: CALL Research in Canada. 28 (3).
Jakobsdottir, S., McKeown, L. & Hoven, D. (2010). Using the New Information and Communications Technologies for the Continuing Professional Development of Teachers through Open and Distance Learning. Chapter 9 in Perspectives on teacher education through open and distance learning, pp. 105-120. Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning.
Hoven, D. (2009). Digital storytelling in indigenous education: An investigation of the role internet technologies can play in (re-)establishing L1 and C1 literacy and fluency. Chapter 3 in APACALL Book II: Internet-Based Language Learning: Pedagogies and Technologies, pp. 47-74. http://www.apacall.org/research/research.html
Selected Articles (double-blind peer reviewed)
Hoven, D., Walsh, P., Al Tawil, R., & Zuba Prokopetz, R. (2021). Exploring professional needs and strategies for instructors/faculty facilitating eportfolios online. Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning 6 (1): 154-176.
Hoven, D. (2020). ePortfolios: The role of reflection in graduate online learning and pedagogy. Paper published in ICDE/WCOL 2019 Proceedings Volume 1, Dublin City University, p. 431-442. https://zenodo.org/record/3804014#.Xsw_98Z7lMN
Hoven, D. (2006). Communicating and interacting: An exploration of the changing roles of media in CALL/CMC. CALICO Journal, 23, 2, 233-256.
Reviewer for (selected):
Asia Pacific Association of CALL (APACALL)
CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) Journal