Associate Professor Juhani Tuovinen
HDT Secondary MSTC, BEd MSC, MEd La Trobe, PhD NSW
Position: Associate Professor in Education
Office: C2.06
Tel: +61 7 5459 4580
Fax: + 61 7 5456 5004
Email: juhani.tuovinen@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Research Paradigms and Methods of Enquiry
- E-Learning Leader
- Positioning Research in Context
- Framing the Research
- Designing a Research Project Proposal
- Research Project/Extended Research Project
Research areas
Cognitive science and education
Distance and online education
Comparative education
Higher education and instructional design
eLearning
Profile
Associate Professor Juhani Tuovinen is an experienced researcher in education. He is currently the chief investigator in an international ARC Discovery research project Securing the future: The motivational determinants of university and college success for Aboriginal and Native American students in remote areas, and in the ARC Linkage research project, Building the future for Indigenous students. The relationship of future vision, learning, and motivational profiles to school success.
He is also an associate researcher on an ARC Linkage research project with seven partner institutions, Interactive Distance e-Learning for Isolated Communities: 'Opening Our Eyes'. Recently he concluded a major two-state evaluation of A$16 million satellite-education innovation in NT and NSW using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses and previously was on the research team investigating the teaching of ICT in all Australian Universities on behalf of the Australian Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs.
He has played a key role in international education, for example, advising on the development of the national Virtual University for Finland, advising the Finnish Universities’ quality assurance delegation on quality assurance, providing perspectives on cognitive science applications to education to Malaysia, advising on development of international blended mode bilingual management programs for China, researching and evaluating online learning programs for the Aga Khan University, Pakistan, and teaching by distance and online education to international students since the early 1990’s. He has conducted collaborative research with colleagues from Netherlands, Finland, Malaysia, USA and Pakistan.
He is concerned with bringing evidence-based research to bear on innovative educational developments, conducting educational evaluations and ensuring that educational programs are based on the best educational and empirical evidence.
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Recent publications
Book chapters
- Tuovinen JE. 2007. The effects of ICT standards on educational motivation and learning. In: (McInerney DM, Van Etten S, Dowson M, eds), Standards in education, 147-171, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Journal articles
- Halabi A, Tuovinen JE, Farley AA. 2005. Empirical evidence on the reflective efficiency of worked examples versus problem-solving exercises in accounting principles instruction, Issues in Accounting Education, 20, 21-32.
- Paas F, Tuovinen JE, van Merrienboer JJG, Darabi AA. 2005. A motivational perspective on the relation between mental effort and performance: optimising learner involvement in instruction, Educational Technology, Research and Development, 53, 25-34.
- Sheard J, Ceddia J, Hurst J, Tuovinen JE. 2004. Determining website usage time from interactions: data preparation and analysis, Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 32, 101-121.
- Tuovinen JE, Paas F. 2004. Exploring multidimensional approaches to the efficiency of instructional conditions, Instructional Science, 32, 133-152.
- Clerehan R, Kett G, Gedge R, Tuovinen JE. 2003. Encouraging IT students to get serious about assignment writing: evaluation of a web-based initiative, The Internet and Higher Education, 6, 327-346.
- Clerehan R, Turnbull J. Moore T, Brown A, Tuovinen JE. 2003. Transforming learning support: an online resource centre for a diverse student population, Educational Media International, 40, 15-31.
- Paas F, Tuovinen JE, Tabbers H, van Gerven PWM. 2003. Cognitive load measurement as a means to advance Cognitive Load Theory, Educational Psychologist, 38, 63-71.
- Sheard J, Ceddie J, Hurst J, Tuovinen JE. 2003. Inferring student learning behaviour from website interactions: a usage analysis, Education and Information Technologies, 8, 245-266.
Conference papers
- Tuovinen JE. 2007. Using satellite communications for rural and remote education. Paper presented at the International Forum on Education Equality and Rural Development, Lanzhou, China.
- Barber J, Tuovinen JE. 2006. Creation mother - avatar-based Indigneous multimedia intergenerational culture communication project, paper presented at the E-LEARN 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Crump S, Tuovinen JE, Simons L. 2006. Effects of satellite communications in the world’s largest classroom, paper presented at the E-LEARN 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Wilmshurst G, Tuovinen JE, Meehan J. 2006. The development of an interactive electronic signing dictionary for Indigenous students with a disability, paper presented at the ACEC2006, Cairns, Qld.
- Bean WJ, Tuovinen JE. 2005. Enhancing the human element in remote training via satellite-mediated interactive distance learning (IDL) in Central Australia, paper presented at the ED-MEDIA 2005, Montreal.
- Tuovinen JE. 2005. Advancing education in virtual and real worlds by meta-innovations, paper presented at the Network-Based Education 2005 Conference (NBE 2005), Rovaniemi, Finland.
- Tuovinen JE. 2005. Incorporating the 'e' in learning, paper presented at the NT e-Learning Showcase, Darwin.
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Theses
- Tuovinen JE. 1999. The cognitive load of discovery learning. Unpublished PhD, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
- Tuovinen JE. 1988. Some curriculum implications of bulletin board computer networks. Unpublished Master of Education, LaTrobe University, Melbourne.
Research grants
Operations of Schooling Review. A/Prof. Juhani E. Tuovinen, Prof. Tania Aspland, Dr. W. Allen, Dr. Lisa Hunter, Dr. Leeanne Crosswell. EIDOS/DETA Research program.
- This research seeks to understand from existing literature the educational effects of school size or composition, class grouping by gender or ability and flexibility of attendance on student outcomes.
Securing the future: optimising the success of remote Indigenous students at postsecondary education. A crosscultural study, Prof. Dennis McInerney (UWS), Dr Jeannie Herbert (Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education), Assoc. Prof. Juhani Tuovinen (Univ. of the Sunshine Coast), Dr D Viri (Arizona Sate Univ.), ARC (Discovery Grant), 2006-2008
- Supporting remote Indigenous students to complete postsecondary education is a national and international imperative. Remote Indigenous student success in VET and University education is a key to the success of Indigenous families, communities and the nation as a whole. Postsecondary education provides students with 'capstone' skills, abilities and understandings that enable them to function at a high level both socially and economically. Effective Indigenous participation in postsecondary education enhances economic and social self sufficiency, reduces the likelihood of dependency on welfare, and provides powerful role models for younger Indigenous students to be successful at school, and beyond compulsory school education.
Interactive distance e-learning for isolated communities: 'opening our eyes', Prof. Stephen Crump (Univ. of Newcastle), Prof. Peter Goodyear (Univ. of Sydney), Assoc. Prof. Brian Devlin (Charles Darwin University), Assoc. Prof. Juhani Tuovinen (Univ. of the Sunshine Coast), ARC (Linkage Grant), SingTel Optus, NT DEET, NSW DET, 2005-2008
- The project investigates people’s use, and experience, of a new satellite-based communications system, being deployed for isolated communities in NSW and the NT. This system (IDeL) supports distance learning, using two-way video communications and interactive computer technologies. The project works at three levels:
- gathering evidence about the experiences and new working practices of learners, teachers and others using IDeL,
- seeing how different ways of capturing and sharing these local practices and experiences support the spread of ideas across the system,
- understanding the dynamics of implementation and take-up of complex, highly-distributed systems of this kind.
Building the future for Indigenous students. The relationship of future vision, learning, and motivational profiles to school success, Prof. Dennis McInerney (UWS), Dr Howard Sercombe (Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education), Assoc. Prof. Juhani Tuovinen (Univ. of the Sunshine Coast), ARC (Linkage Grant), NT DEET, 2005-2008
- Indigenous students are the most severely disadvantaged group in Australia. Education as currently provided is failing them in the NT. Future Directions for Secondary Education in the NT states that 20 percent of secondary-aged Indigenous students are not enrolled in school, with only six percent completing the NTCE in 2002. Education is the corner stone of social justice because it is the basis of opportunity (Burney 03). This research will provide critical hard data on the relationship of Indigenous students' future vision and aspirations, motivation, self-concept and self-regulation, language and culture to school achievement in order to design and provide culturally relevant education to maximise Indigenous opportunities and futures.
Signing Dictionary for Indigenous Students with Disabilities, Dr G Wilmshurst (NT DEET), Assoc. Prof. Juhani Tuovinen (Univ. of the Sunshine Coast), Mr J Meehan (Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education), Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, 2006-2007
- The sign language used within Indigenous communities provides a possible avenue for communication and education of some disabled students. This research and development program seeks to develop and investigate the use of a suite of interactive multimedia programs which are community-specific and are therefore more easily learned and used in specific Indigenous communities than the current mainstream Auslan sign language.
Evaluation of the Interactive Distance Learning in NT and NSW, Assoc. Prof. Stephen Crump (Univ. of Sydney), Assoc. Prof. Juhani Tuovinen (Univ. of the Sunshine Coast), Dr L Simons (Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education), NT DEET, NSW DET, SingTel Optus, 2004-2005
- This program evaluated the satellite-mediated interactive distance learning (IDL) system implemented throughout the Northern Territory and New South Wales remote schools and the School of the Air sites.
Enhancing Online Teaching and Learning at AKU-IED, Dr J Retallick (Aga Khan University), Assoc. Prof. Juhani Tuovinen (Univ. of the Sunshine Coast), Dr F Shamim (Aga Khan University), Aga Khan University, Pakistan, 2005
- The overall aim of this international research program between A. Prof. Tuovinen and Aga Khan University in Pakistan was to study and advance the integration of ICT in teacher education programmes at Aga Khan University - Institute for Educational Development. To achieve that aim the project: investigated the possibilities and problems in using CMC for facilitating learning in a developing country context and, in particular, at AKU-IED, contributed to knowledge about the experience of online learning; contributed to knowledge about how to make online teaching more effective for promoting deep learning in a constructivist context, and, developed guidelines for faculty and students at AKU-IED to enable optimal use of CMC for enhancing learning.
University Applications of IDL Technology, Dr Juhani Tuovinen, Charles Darwin University, Centre for Remote Telecommunications Solutions, 2005
- Interactive Distance eLearning (IDL) technology enables education to be provided effectively to dispersed students by employing real-time verbal, computer and visual interactions. To date this technology has been primarily employed with school students. However, this same technology, and much of the same existing infrastructure, especially the IDL facilities at the remote sites, might be able to provide a more suitable access method for post-secondary education provision for remote locations than the existing printed or online services.
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