Dr Dorit Maor is a senior lecturer in the Tertiary and Adult program in the School of Education. Dr Maor's research interests include social constructivism as a referent to teaching and learning and the influence of e-learning on the quality of teaching in higher education. More specifically, her research focuses on the changing role of the teacher and the learner in teaching and learning online, the fit between technology and pedagogy in teaching in higher education, the creation of communities of practice in the workplace, the use of multimedia to enhance inquiry learning in the secondary school science classroom, and teaching for life long learning. She has numerous publications in the area of e-learning and pedagogies. Her research utilises both qualitative and quantitative methods but mainly focuses on interpretive research methodologies. Dorit is a chief investigator in an ARC/Linkage research grant which investigates the use of new technologies with professionals.

website : http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~dmaor/

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