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Animations and Simulations

Since becoming involved in the teaching and development of units such as Networks and Data Communications I have been trying, at every opportunity, to implement a more realistic learning environment for students. This has proved to be a difficult task considering the diversity of our students and their learning environments. But I hope to continue to try to add to the existing resources of the units I teach to enable the students to "really experience" what may be waiting for them in employment at the end of their degree.

Computer Aided Learning and Teaching

From 1993 I have been involved with enhancing our teaching materials by supplementing existing materials with different forms of multimedia.

Online Learning

Since 1996 we (as a faculty) have been looking into the world of offering all our learning online. This has been driven primarily by the need to get more interactive and up-to-date materials to all of our students, who are studying around world, this is a huge job and requires continual work but we hope we have been able to assist our students in their studies regardless of there geographical location.

Computer Based Advisory Systems and Catalogues

A new and evolving research area for myself; is in computer-based advisory systems involving animal identification and veterinary diagnosis software. The aim of my research over the next few years will be to:

  • Investigate the current advancements in human medical diagnosis systems; learn from the knowledge they have gained and the trial and error they have been through in creating diagnosis software.
  • Investigate current identification and cataloguing systems to advise the construction and logic of an animal identification system to be used to quickly identify dangerous and venomous native animals and bite wounds; to allow for timely identification and treatment.

Building on my background from computer aided learning and instructional design my aim is to investigate areas where computer-aided diagnosis and identification software would be a beneficial addition to the software systems used currently within clinic management. With the cooperation of local Veterinary Clinic staff this will hopefully lead to an initial prototype of the software from which further research can continue.