Dr Harvey Mellar

  • Qualifications and position:
    • PhD
    • Reader in Technology Enhanced Learning
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
  • Centre:
    • London Knowledge Lab
  • Summary:
    • I am Head of the Learning Technologies Unit which supports tutors in their implementation of e-learning. I have taught and researched widely in the area of the application of technologies in education. My present research interests are in technology enhanced learning in Higher Education and e-learning for Skills for Life learners.
  • Teaching:
    • MA ICT in Education
      PhD/EdD supervision
  • Research Projects:
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • • Andretta, Susie: Ways of experiencing Information literacy: perception and practice among Information Management postgraduate students
      • Margeti, Maria: An empirical study on the relationship between the way learners navigate in educational hypermedia and their cognitive, learning and personality style
      • Paizan, Delfina Cristina: The interaction between students conceptions of language learning and the process of participatory design of educational uses of technology
      • Riley, David: The roles of modelling and writing in learning by modelling in undergraduate geography
      • Furneaux, Clare: A study of post-graduate students development of the writing demands of the academy
      • Hallissy, Michael: Integration of Digital Technology (ICT) into Literacy Programmes
  • Professional Activities:
    • Editorial Board - Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
      Academic and Professional Advisory Board - Reflecting Education
      Steering Group - Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement in e-Learning SIG
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Mellar, H., Jara, M., Sayer, B., Papaefthimiou, M. (2009) Effective application of quality assurance and enhancement procedures to e-learning and blended learning courses. Preconference workshops, 1st International E-Learning Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 2009.

      Mellar, H. and Kambouri, M (2007) ICT: Effective Practice Study. NRDC Effective Practice Conference, Sheffield, February 2007

      Mellar, H., Kambouri, M., and Morrison, S. (2006) Issues and next steps in using ICT to teach adult numeracy. Learning Connections -Third National Adult Numeracy Seminar, Focus on Numeracy and ICT, Stirling, December 2006

      Jara, M. and Mellar, H. (2006) Assuring and Enhancing the Quality of Online Courses: Exploring Internal Mechanisms in Higher Education. RESEARCH INTO ONLINE DISTANCE EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING Making the Difference Fourth EDEN Research Workshop Castelldefels, Spain, October 2006.

      Kambouri, M., Mellar, H., Logan, K., Betts, S., Nance, B. and Moriarty, V. (2006) Effective practice in the teaching of LLN through the use of ICT. BERA, Nottingham, September 2006.
 

Contact details

Contact details

  • Email:

  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Level 2
    23-29 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QS

Publications

  • Pachler, N., Daly, C., Mor, Y.  and Mellar, H. (in press) 'Formative e-assessment: Practitioner cases', Computers & Education
  • Jara, M. and Mellar, H. (2009) 'Factors affecting quality enhancement procedures for e-learning courses', Quality Assurance in Education 17(3), 220-232.
  • Al-Fudail, M. and Mellar, H. (2008) 'Investigating teacher stress when using technology', Computers and Education 51, 1103-1110.
  • Jara, M. and Mellar, H. (2007) 'Assuring and Enhancing the Quality of Online Courses: Exploring Internal Mechanisms in Higher Education', European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning (EURODL) 2007/I,
  • Kambouri, M., Thomas, S. and Mellar, H. (2006) 'Playing the literacy game: a case study in adult education', Learning, Media and Technology 31, 395-410.
  • Mellar, H., Kambouri, M., Logan, K., Betts, S., Nance, B., Moriarty, V. (2007) Effective Teaching and Learning: Using ICT. London: NRDC.
  • Nance, B., Kambouri, M. and Mellar, H. (2007) Developing Teaching and Learning: Practitioner Guides: ICT. Leicester: NIACE.
  • Mellar, H. and Kambouri, M. (2005) 'Observing ICT use in adult literacy, numeracy and language classrooms', Literacy and Numeracy Studies 14, 61-74.
  • Mellar, H. and Kambouri, M. (2004) 'Learning and teaching adult basic skills with digital technology: research from the UK' In A.J. Brown and N.E. Davis (eds), Digital technologies, communities and education: World Yearbook 2004. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
  • Mellar, H., Boohan, R., Bliss, J., Ogborn, J., Tompsett, C. (eds) (1994) Learning with Artificial Worlds: Computer Based Modelling in the Curriculum. London: Falmer Press.