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Acoustics, Audio and Video Engineering

Helen Keegan

Lecturer in Interactive Media

Helen Keegan

Contact details

    

Email: h.keegan@salford.ac.uk

Telephone: 0161 295 5353

Location: 106 Newton Building

 

  

Profile

I joined the School of Acoustics and Audio Engineering in 1998 as a Research Assistant after graduating from the University of Manchester with BA (Hons) Linguistics, where I specialised in phonetics and spectrographic speech analysis. My initial role in the school was as a developer of CAL materials, having worked as a freelance multimedia designer and producer/developer of Enhanced CDs for national and international clients including The British Council, Futuresonic, Flux Magazine, Castlefield Gallery, and Fred Perry. My interest in the evaluation of Learning Technologies led to my taking on a wider role within the University in the area of e-learning, heading the evaluation team for the University of Salford E-learning pilot project (2000-2002), the result of which was the establishment of a Learning Technologies Centre to support the development and application of learning technologies throughout the university.

Since 2000 I have worked on a variety of funded projects (FP7, EU Socrates-Minerva, EPSRC, and ESF) in various capacities from researcher and evaluator to project coordinator and academic director.  The common themes of these projects are the use of Information and Communication Technologies in Teaching and Learning.

From November 2004 – January 2007 I was the Project Coordinator/Academic Director of ESMOS, a European Socrates-Minerva funded international project partnership of 6 European universities with the combined aims of developing, evaluating and modelling the use of Virtual Learning Environments and online technologies to support international mobility students. The ESMOS project explored a variety of online and mobile technologies, mainly centering around blog-based communities, but including wikis and SMS/MMS for the support of international student mobility (both physical and virtual), receiving a rare 'outstanding' final grading from the EU for its innovative use of (what were then) new web technologies.

From October 2007 I began working on two 2-year projects under the European Lifelong Learning Program; VITAE (Web 2.0 Teacher Training across Europe) and ICONET (developing online tools for the translation of informal learning competences into formal European frameworks). I am also an associate partner on the FP7 MATURE project (knowledge assets and knowledge management).

 

TEACHING

I coordinate/deliver a variety of Multimedia and Enterprise modules within CSE, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including:

I also give the occasional guest lecture to MSc students on the following modules:

In 2008 I received FHEA recognition (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)

 

RESEARCH

I am a member of the Information Systems, Organisation and Society Research Centre which is part of the Informatics Research Institute (IRIS). IRIS was rated 6*(A) as a result of the 2001 RAE making it one of the leading IS research groups in the UK. My research focuses on Technology, Society and Organisations, specifically within Higher Education and the AV industries. Research interests include:

 

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

BOOKS

Keegan, H. & Fox, A. (Eds.). (2009) Mentoring for 21st Century Skills: It's All About The Learning. EU Education and Culture. ISBN 978-1905732791. (Now also available as PDF Download under CC license here)

Keegan, H. & Lisewski, B. (2007/2009) Living, teaching and learning by social software: some emerging themes and practice issues, In Hatzipanagos, S. & Warburton, S. ed. Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. IGI Publishing, IGI Global. ISBN 978-1605662084.

Wheeler, S. & Keegan, H. (2007/2009). Imagined Worlds, Future Cultures. In: Wheeler, S. ed. Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures: The Rise of Cyberculture in Online Learning.  Greenwich CT: Information Age Publishers. ISBN 978-1607520153.

Keegan, H., Valiuskeviciute, A. and Morrone, F. (2006) Developing a methodology to support mobility students using a web-based approach. In: Way, C., Soriano, G., Limon, C. and Amador, C. (eds.) Enhancing the Erasmus Experience: Papers on Student Mobility. Editorial Atrio ISBN: 978-84-96101-44-9

INVITED TALKS

REFEREED PAPERS

  1. Keegan, H. (2009). Formal to Informal - Education to Industry; easing the transition through Social Media. Online Educa Berlin. December 2009.
  2. Bell, F., Fraser, J., Keegan, H. and Clay, J. (2009). Distribute This: Online Identity, Presence and Practice. Workshop delivered at ALT-C 2009, Manchester, UK. 8-10 September 2009.
  3. Keegan, H. (2009). Social Media, Digital Literacy and Curriculum (re)Design. ALT-C 2009. Manchester, 8-10 September 2009.
  4. Keegan, H. and Costa, C. (2009). Online Learning Communities and Social Software: A Mentoring Approach to 21st Century Skills. EDULEARN conference, Barcelona, July 2009.
  5. Costa, C. and Keegan, H. (2009). Cartoon Planet: Micro-reflection through digital cartoons - a case study on teaching and learning with young people. EDULEARN conference, Barcelona, July 2009.
  6. Keegan, H. (2009) Digital Identity, Digital Literacy. Higher Education Academy Annual Conference. Manchester, UK, July 2009.
  7. Keegan, H., Costa, C. and Fox, A. (2009) Community-based Mentoring and Innovating Through Web 2.0: Challenges and Tensions. EDEN Conference. Gdansk, Poland, June 2009.
  8. Keegan H. (2009) Public vs. Private: Conflict and Compromise in Converging Social Networks. 2nd Digital Cultures Workshop: Social Media Publics. Salford, UK, 2009.
  9. Keegan, H. (2008) "Design Principles and Learner Empowerment in the Exploration of the Digital Self". ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the Digital Divide. Leeds, UK, September 2008.
  10. Keegan H (with Wheeler S, Warburton S, Attwell G and White D) Mixed Reality in Second Life. Panel for the Joint Open and Working IFIP Conferences, ICT and Learning for the Net Generation. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 7-11 July 2008.  
  11. Keegan, H. (2008) "Web 2.0 : Digital Identity, Communication and Collaboration Online". Learning Technologies Good Practice Event LTGPE 2008, University of Salford, June 18 2008.
  12. Keegan, H. (2008) "Flickr as a tool for fostering intercultural understanding: a case study of informal learning in an online community". Proceedings of the EDEN 2008 conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2008.
  13. Keegan H (with Wheeler S, Warburton S, Attwell G and White D) “No Life in Second Life? – exploring the potentials and pitfalls of Multi User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) in learning and teaching”, Special Interest Panel, Online Educa Berlin, November 2007.
  14. Bell, F., Keegan, H. and Zaitseva, E. (2007) “Designing Virtual Student Mobility”. ECE (Education in a Changing Environment) conference. University of Salford, September 2007.
  15. Bell, F., Keegan, H. and Costa, C. (2007) “Blog it, tag it and publish it: experience and critique Web 2.0 in 50 minutes” Workshop delivered at ECE (Education in a Changing Environment) Conference 2007, University of Salford.
  16. Bell, F., Keegan, H. and Fraser, J. (2007) “Web 2.0 Slam – ‘Performing’ Innovative Practice”, Workshop delivered at ALT-C 2007, Nottingham, UK.
  17. Keegan, H. (2007) “Social Software for Virtual Mobility: An Online Community of Practice-based Learners”. Proceedings of the EDEN 2007 conference, Naples, Italy, June 2007.
  18. Stephens, M. and Keegan, H. “Blogging, Action Learning and International Student Mobility”. Royal College of Nursing International Conference. Dundee, Scotland. May 2007.
  19. Keegan, H. and Valiuskeviciute, A. (2006). “International Mobility: Cultural Variations in Learning Styles and Pedagogical Support”. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2006) pp 321-325. ISBN: 972-8924-22-4.
  20. Stephens, M. & Keegan, H. (2006). “Blogging and Clinical Placements”. Article in the Nursing Times article. http://www.nursingtimes.net
  21. Keegan, H. (2006) “Virtual Mobility: Issues in cross-cultural learning and communication”. Paper presented at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, November 2006.
  22. Keegan, H. (2006) “The ESMOS Project: A Blended Approach to Mobility Support”. Guest speaker at the Virtual Mobility Forum, ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, November 2006.
  23. Keegan, H. (2006) ‘Blogging to enhance the support of international mobility students’ in Learning Technology - IEEE Special edition (publication of IEEE Computer Society), Volume 8 Issue 4, ISSN 1438-0625, October 2006 
  24. Keegan, H. and Procter, C.(2006)  “Peer-to-peer communication between students to facilitate placements”. Paper presented at ASET 2006, Birmingham, UK. 5-7 Sept 2006
  25. Keegan, H. (2006) “Enhancing Student Mobility through Online Support”. Innovative Learning in Action Journal. Summer 2006.
  26. Keegan, H. (2006) “Weblogs as a support tool for international mobility students”. ALT-C 2006: The Next Generation, Edinburgh, Scotland. 5-7 Sept 2006.
  27. Keegan, H., Griffiths, L., James, M. and Whittle, S. (2006) “The ESMOS project and an SMS pilot study with international exchange students”. In A. Szucs and I. Bo (Eds.) E-Comptences for Life, Employment and Innovation. Proceedings of the EDEN 2006 Conference, Vienna, Austria. pp176-181
  28. Keegan, H., Valiuskeviciute, A. and Morrone, F. (2006) “Developing a methodology to support mobility students using a web-based approach”. TEMCU – Enhancing the Erasmus Experience: Teaching in Today’s Multicultural University. Granada, Spain. 16-17 March 2006.
  29. Keegan, H. “ESMOS: Enhancing Student Mobility through Online Support”. ASET (Association for Sandwich Education and Training)., September 2005.
  30. Keegan, H. (2001) “Evaluation of a Learning System – and Learning to Evaluate. In Okamoto T., Hartley R., Kinshuk & Klus J. (Eds.) Advanced Learning Technology: Issues, Achievements and Challenges. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society (ISBN 0-7695-1013-2) pp 149-153.
  31. Keegan, H. (2001) “Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Acoustics CAL package”. In Learning Across the Ages – looking back and looking forwards. Proceedings of CAL 2001 Conference, University of Warwick. pp 178-182.
  32. Keegan, H and Hill, H.J.  (2000) “Developing a Computer-Aided Learning Package: Pedagogical Issues and Design Challenges”. Proceedings from Engineering Education for the 21st Century, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 17 – 20 April, 2000

 

WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS DELIVERED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD

"Microblogging and Social Bookmarking". Workshop delivered with Frances Bell at the ECE (Education in a Changing Environment) Conference 2009, University of Salford.

"E-Learning in the curriculum" PGCert seminar (2008)
“Blog it, tag it and publish it: experience and critique Web 2.0 in 50 minutes” ECE conference workshop, University of Salford (2007)
"Blogging to support international mobility students" LTRN Staff Development session, University of Salford (2006)
“Blogs/Wikis/Podcasts” Salford Learning and Innovations Club, Seminar delivered with F.Bell. University of Salford (2006)
"Methodology development: an International perspective" LTRN Staff Development session, University of Salford (2006)

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

I have strong links with e-learning practitioners both nationally and internationally, and am an active member of various EdTech communities and organisations, including JISC-EMERGE, ALT (Association for Learning Technology), and EDEN (European Distance and E-Learning Network). I am also a steering group member of Know and Network (KAN), an ESF-funded project to promote social networking and knowledge sharing amongst Women working in IT in England.

·  Executive, Salford Digital Cluster
·  Executive, Centre for Digital Culture