Pro Vice-Chancellor
Learning Transformations
Mike was Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning Transformations at Swinburne University and Executive Director, Australian Digital Futures Institute at University of Southern Queensland. Prior to this, he has a long professional history in higher education in Australia, Canada and Hong Kong and has worked at six different universities. His research focuses on personalised learning, learning design, digital futures, learning spaces, blended learning, authentic assessment and leadership using design-based research. He was the first Australian to be elected to the Board of the Open Education consortium and is a Life Member of ASCILITE.
Mike's primary focus is increasing the quality of teaching across all modes of teaching (face-to- face, blended and online). He transforms practice by inspiring, enabling and empowering teaching staff to develop capacity and capability in innovative teaching and learning. His expertise centres on innovative learning design of blended and online learning environments for large-scale transformations.