Biodata

Perth skyline, Australia. Source: Rabich, D. (2019). Under CC BY-SA 4.0 licence from Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/413Wybz

I’m a Professor of Digital Learning in the Graduate School of Education at The University of Western Australia in Perth, where I am also the Deputy Head of School (International), with responsibility for overseeing our offshore programmes and international connections.

In my courses, I specialise in digital technologies in education, with a particular focus on mobile learning. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and my teaching has been recognised through Faculty and University Excellence in Teaching Awards, as well as a 2010 national Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) Excellence in Teaching Award.

My current research focuses on emerging technologies, including generative artificial intelligence (AI); digital literacies, including attentional literacy and AI literacy; and the forms digital learning takes in diverse contexts across the Global North and South. My books include: Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet, co-edited with Joe Lockard, and published by Peter Lang in 2007; From Blogs to Bombs: The Future of Digital Technologies in Education, published by UWA Publishing in 2009; the first edition of Digital Literacies, co-authored with Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly, and published by Pearson in 2013; Mobile Learning: Languages, Literacies and Cultures, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014; Mobile Lenses on Learning: Languages and Literacies on the Move, published by Springer in 2019; and the second edition of Digital Literacies, again co-authored with Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney, and published by Routledge in 2022. To date, my work has been translated into Chinese and Portuguese.

I am an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE), a member of the Editorial Boards of Artificial Intelligence in Language Education (AILE), the Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (AJSoTL), Educational Innovations and Emerging Technologies (EIET), Interactive Technology and Smart Education and Technology in Language Teaching & Learning. I was a member of the Editorial Board of System until 2020, and the Editorial Board of Language Learning & Technology (LLT) until 2025. I am a member of the International Academic College of the International Academic Forum (IAFOR) and a member of the Programme Committee for the Pan-Pacific Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (PPTELL) Conference. I have also been a member of the Advisory Panels for the Digital Education Show Asia and EDUtech Asia, a member of the Programme Committee for the International Mobile Learning Festival, a member of the International Review Panel for mLearn, an external reviewer for the 2018-2019 UNICEF Digital Literacy & Skills scoping project, and a Co-Chair of the 2021 International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) Sub-Conference C6: Technology Enhanced Language Learning. I am a current member of the ACTA Digital Technologies Advocacy Group in Australia.

I currently teach in Perth and Singapore. I have given presentations and run seminars on digital and mobile learning in Australia and New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East, the UK and Europe, and North and South America.

Delivering a public presentation, Digitally Literate, Digitally Well?,
at ConnecTalks 2023, Honolulu, Hawai’i, 2023

Last update: April 2025.