Charles Sturt University

Faculty Member, The Flexible Learning Institute

Director, The Flexible Learning Institute

About

Professor Mike Keppell
Professor of Higher Education and Director, The Flexible Learning Institute, Charles Sturt University

Professor Keppell is currently working in the roles of Director, The Flexible Learning Institute and Professor of Higher Education at Charles Sturt University. The Flexible Learning Institute has as its aim to promote and foster excellence in flexible learning and teaching, through pedagogical scholarship, promotion of exemplary practice and policy advice.

Prior to this, he worked at the Hong Kong Institute of Education as Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology (LTTC) from 2003 – 2007. Before joining the Institute of Education, he was Head of the Biomedical Multimedia Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science, The University of Melbourne from 1998 2002 and Head of the Interactive Multimedia Unit, Division of Distance and Continuing Education, Central Queensland University from 1994 1998.

He has a background in teaching and learning, curriculum, evaluation and more specifically instructional design. His expertise lies in his ability to combine the operational and development tasks of educational technology with the academic study of curriculum, instructional design and evaluation. He has worked as an instructional designer on hundreds of technology-enhanced initiatives in areas as diverse as coal-mining, medicine, science, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, psychology, multimedia, human movement studies and education.

His research focuses on blended learning, learning oriented assessment, authentic learning and transformative learning using design based research. He recently edited a book titled Instructional Design: Case Studies in Communities of Practice which was published in 2007 with authors from eight different countries.