Assistant Director — Education and Technology
Email: liz.h@ubc.ca
Phone: 604-822-2927
Fax: 604-822-1727
Liz has worked within education and technology for the last 19 years, a path that started as a language teacher in a school that mandated laptops for all students. Liz has held various positions in Australia, France, Singapore and Canada as a teacher, instructional/ curriculum designer, manager of educational software development, technology manager and consultant within universities and training organizations.
Liz has managed various organizational change projects – from repositioning a university’s international marketing office to wide-scale curriculum renewal across a university of over 30,000 students. She has published in areas such as educational technology and change management. Liz’s interests include change management, educational technology and learning activity design.
Selected Publications
Heathcote, E & Dawson S P (in press), The Case for an Innovations Framework for Technology-Enabled Learning Environments. In Ho K., Scott R., Jarvis-Selinger S., Novak Lauscher H., Cordeiro J. (eds). Technology Enabled Knowledge Translation for eHealth. New York: Springer.
Dawson S P, Heathcote L & Poole G (2010) Harnessing ICT potential: The adoption and analysis of ICT systems for enhancing the student learning experience. International Journal of Educational Management, 24:2, pp. 116 – 128.
Lockyer L, Dawson S, & Heathcote L (2010). Web 2.0 in Higher Education : blurring social networks and learning networks. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (pp. 2454-2461).
Dawson S, Bakharia A, & Heathcote E (2010). SNAPP : Realising the affordances of real-time SNA within networked learning environments. In L. Dirckinck-Holmfeld, V. Hodgson, C. Jones, M. de Laat, D. McConnell, & T. Ryberg (Eds.), 7th International Conference on Networked Learning (pp. 125-133).
Heathcote E & Dawson S P (2008), Have you heard? The role of rumour during organisational change processes, International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 8:2, pp. 273-284.
Heathcote, E, & Taylor, P G (2007). The potential contribution of change management literature to understand and support student transitions. HERDSA 2007 Enhancing Higher Education Theory and Scholarship. Adelaide, South Australia.
Heathcote, E (2006), Learning design templates – a pedagogical just-in-time support tool. In Proceedings of the JISC Online Conference, UK, Learning Design E-Book.
Heathcote, E & Dawson S (2005), Data mining for evaluation, benchmarking & reflective practice in a LMS. In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (pp. 326-333). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Heathcote, E & Prakash, S (2004), What your learning management system is telling you about supporting your teachers, in Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE, Athens).
Liz’s Recent Posts
Presentation at Clinical Research Professionals of BC Speaker Series
Amanda Yu (alumni of the course) and Dean Giustini (instructor) presented on “Using Social Media in Clinical Trials” at the September 2012 Clinical Research Professionals of BC Speaker Series. Feedback from the 32 participants was great – rated as a 4.2 out of 5! Well done!
Summer campers teach us a thing or two!
Today we wrapped up week 1 of the eHealth Summer camp, made possible with the generous support of TELUS. Campers had an hour and a half to choose a presentation topic, prepare a presentation and deliver it to their peers, instructors, parents and some guests, including a reporter & photographer from the Vancouver Sun newspaper. [...]
eHealth 2012 conference paper
Canada’s national e-Health 2012 conference was held in Vancouver at the end of May. I presented the Risk Assessment project so far (the presentation can be viewed on the conference website at http://www.e-healthconference.com/Presentations/e-Health%202012%20Presentations/O39.3.pdf). There were about 50 or so people in the sessions and the people who asked questions seemed to be doctors or medical practitioners. Main interest [...]
