Rosa Michaelson

BSc (Maths) Hons, MSc (KBS)
Senior Lecturer.

Contact Details

r.michaelson@dundee.ac.uk
tel: 0044(0)1382 384858
fax: 0044(0)1382 388421

Teaching

Rosa lectures on the following modules: 1IS, 2MS and 4MS.

Publications

Michaelson, R. (with Getchell, K., et al.) (2007) "A Computer Games Approach to Exploratory Learning, LAVA: A Case Study in System Design", in proceedings of WEBIST 2007, 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 3 - 6 March, Barcelona, Spain.

Michaelson, R. (with Getchell, K. et al.) (2007) "Evaluating Exploratory Learning in LAVA", in proceedings of the Sixth IASTED International Conference on Web-Based Education, WBE 2007, Chamonix, France, March 14 - 16.

Michaelson, R. (2006) "Evaluating Failure: the case of UKeU", proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy for Information and Computer Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin.

Michaelson (2005) "The Challenge of Change: Reducing Conflict in Implementing e-Learning", in P. Ritrovato, C. Allison, S.A. Cerri, T. Dimitrakos, M. Gaeta and S. Salerno (eds.) Towards the Learning Grid: Advances in Human Learning Services. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 127. pp. 22-28. ISBN 1-58603-534-7

Michaelson, R. (with C. Allison) (2005) "Design considerations for an ELeGI portal", in P. Ritrovato, C. Allison, S.A. Cerri, T. Dimitrakos, M. Gaeta and S. Salerno (eds.) Towards the Learning Grid: Advances in Human Learning Services. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 127. pp. 129-135. 1-58603-534-7

Michaelson, R. (with C. Allison, A. Ruddle) (2005) "Systems Support for Collaborative Learning", in P. Ritrovato, C. Allison, S.A. Cerri, T. Dimitrakos, M. Gaeta and S. Salerno (eds.) Towards the Learning Grid: Advances in Human Learning Services. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 127. pp. 175-181. 1-58603-534-7

Michaelson,R. (2005)"Gender Mainstreaming in FP6; experiences from an IP", in Archibald, J., Emms, J., Grundy, F., Payne, J. and Turner, E. "The Gender politics of ICT". Middlesex University Press. pp. 79-94. ISBN 1-904750-46

Michaelson, R. (2004) e with everything, Lorraine McKechnie (ed.) e-learning: a virtual promise Proceedings of CAPS.4: Fourth International Conference on Human-System Learning, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2-4 July 2003, Europia, Paris. ISBN 2-909285-27-8.

Michaelson, R. (2004) Portal wars; UK adoption of e-learning, in proceedings of UK AIS 2004, 5-7 May, Glasgow Caledonian University. ISBN: 1-903661-56-0.

Allison, C., Michaelson, R. (2004) Design Considerations for an EleGI Portal, 3rd Intl. LeGE-WG Workshop: Towards a European Learning Grid Infrastructure, Berlin, 3rd December 2003. EWIC ISSN 1477-93582

Michaelson, R. (2003) e-learning, briefing paper for LTSN-BEST, November 2003.

Michaelson, R. (2003) Does e-learning work? in proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences, Galway, 26-28 August. http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/pub/conf2003/menu.html

Michaelson, R. (2003) The Challenge of Change: reducing conflict in implementing e-learning, proceedings of the 2nd LegE-WG International Workshop: Towards a European Learning Grid Infrastructure, Paris, 3-4 March 2003. EWIC at http://ewic.bcs.org. ISSN 1477-9358

Allison, C., Ruddle, A., Michaelson, R. (2003) Systems Support for Collaborative Learning, Proceedings of the 1st LeGE-WG Workshop, Lausaune, October, 2002. EWIC at http://ewic.bcs.org. ISSN 1477-9358.

Michaelson, R., Helliar, C. V., Power, D. M., Allison, C. (2003) Group Work and the Web: FINESSE and TAGS, D. Hawkridge, R. Kaye, (eds.) Learning and Teaching for Business: case studies of successful innovation, Kogan Page. June 2003. ISBN 0 7494 4025 2.

Michaelson, R. (2003) Assessing Group Work, briefing paper for LTSN-BEST. March, 2003. http://cbs1.gcal.ac.uk/lts/RMichaelson_Asses_group_work.htm

Green, C. D., Grinyer, J. R., Michaelson, R. (2002) A possible economic rationale for straight-line depreciation, Abacus,Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 91-120. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISSN 0001-3072.

Michaelson, R. (2002) Re-thinking Laurillard: universities, learning and technology. International Journal of Management Education, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring, pp. 15-29. East Anglia: LTSN Business, Management & Accounting. ISSN 1472-8117.

Michaelson, R, Helliar, C. V., Power, D. M., Allison, C. (2002) Group Work and the Web: FINESSE and TAGS, LTSN BEST Monograph, OU Press, ISBN 1901513-09-2.

Monk, E. A., Helliar, C. V., Michaelson, R., Allison, C. (2001) Designing a learning resource for audit teaching: is the web the way forward in Proceedings of e-Learning, the 2nd Web-Based Learning Environments Conference, Lund, 24th-26th October, pp. 250-254. Badersten, L., Ossianilsson, E. (eds.) ISBN: 91-631-1635-9.

Michaelson, R., Heliar, C., Power, D., Sinclair, D. (2001) Evaluating Finesse: a case-study in group-based CAL, Computers & Education, October, 37 (2001), 67-80.

Allison, C., McKechan, D., Ruddle, A., Michaelson, R. (2001) A Group Based System for Group Based Learning in European Perspectives on Computer-supported Collaborative Learning, the proceedings of Euro CSCL 2001 eds. Dillenbourg, P., Eurelings, A., Hakkarainen, K. pp. 43-50. Maastricht McLuhan Institute, Maastricht, 22-24 March. ISBN 90-5681-097-9

Allison, C., Bain, A., McKechan, D., Michaelson, R. (2000) Using TAGS for Distributed IT Project Management, in Proceedings of the LTSN-ICS 1st Annual Conference, 23 - 25 August, Heriot-Watt University.

Allison, C., McKechan, D., Lawson, H., Michaelson, R. (2000) The Tags Framework for Web-based Learning Environments, in Web-Based Learning Environments, 2000, 5-6 June, Portugal: University of Portugal. FEUP Editions. ISBN 972-752-035-9

Helliar, C.V., Michaelson, R., Power, D.M., Sinclair, C.D. (2000) Using a Portfolio Management Game (Finesse) to Teach Finance, Accounting Education, 9 (1), 37-51.

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Research Interests

Rosa's main research area is in Information Systems and the adoption of new technologies. In particular, she is researching the policy and practise of the adoption of new educational technologies for Higher Education. She was a member of the team which developed Finesse (Finance Education in a Scalable Software Environment), an online collaborative learning and teaching environment for business finance which includes real-time market data and portfolio management facilities. Finesse has been in use as a teaching tool since 1996, and continuously developed using a number of different computing technologies in collaboration with St Andrews Computer Science School. see FINESSE

Finesse is now used as a demonstration of service-based technology enhanced learning under a European FP6 grant. Rosa is project leader at Dundee for a consortium of 23 members investigating the use of GRID technologies for new learning paradigms. See ELeGI

As part of her professional involvement with gender equality in Science, Engineering and Technology, she is a member of the steering committee of the women @ CL project, coordinating a UK women in computer science research network. EPSRC, £60,000 (2004-2007). See women@cl

January 2004 onwards; Member of the steering group and program committee for the 6th International Women in Computing Conference, WiC 2005: Gender Politics of ICT, University of Greenwich, 14-16th July. See WiC

Research Grants

Project leader, European Learning GRID Infastructure(ELeGI), Information Societies & Technology Programme, EU FP6, 50,000EUR, (2/04), 4 years.

(with C.V.Helliar, D.M. Power, C.Allison - Computer Science, St. Andrews) Finesse, Stewart-Ivory Foundation, £62,000 (10/03) 2 years.

Project Leader, Learning Grid of Excellence Working Group (LeGI-WG), Information Societies & Technology Programme, EU FP5, 6000EUR, (1/02), 2 years.

(with C.V. Helliar, D.M.Power, C.D.Sinclair, C.Allison - Computer Science, St. Andrews) "Tutor and Group Support (TAGS)", SHEFC, £333,000, (4/99), 27 months.

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