CLEAR - Staff

Director & Professor of Learning Enhancement *Professor Carmel McNAUGHT*

	Address	302, Academic Building No. 1, Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T.
	Phone	(852) 2609 6028
	Fax	(852) 2603 6804
	E-mail	carmel.mcnaught@cuhk.edu.hk

Research

Research Interests
Current research interests include evaluation of innovation in higher education, strategies for embedding learning support into the curriculum, and understanding the broader implementation of the use of technology in higher education. Some recent relevant projects, funded by the Australian Government in the late 1990s, are:

•	PI: Development of a national inventory of computer-based learning and support materials used in university teaching.
•	Co-I: Staff development in evaluation of technology-based teaching development projects
•	Co-I: Academics' educational conceptions and the design and impact of computer software in higher education.

She is on the editorial board of 13 international journals and is a regular reviewer for many journals. She has presented 22 Keynote addresses at international conferences. She is Chair of the ED-MEDIA Conference Steering Committee, run by the Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education; and Program Committee member of several international conferences each year.

As at January 2008, funded projects in Hong Kong include:

As Principal Investigator
1.	Co-PI. UGC-funded TDG. Literacies in the humanities: The student voice. $HK1,000,000. 2006-2008.
2.	PI. UGC-funded TDG. Ensuring that the needs and preferences of students and teachers guide planning for the use of eBooks at CUHK. $HK242,000. 2006-2008.
3.	PI. UGC-funded TDG. Aligning an eLearning Service to the needs of programmes. $HK920,000. 2006-2007.
4.	PI. UGC-funded TDG. Support for further development of outcomes-based approaches to teaching and learning. $HK730,000. 2006-2007.
5.	PI UGC-funded CERG. Understanding the ways in which the design features of educational websites impact on student learning outcomes. $HK462,000 (+ internal grant of $HK59,000). 2005-2007.
6.	PI. UGC-funded TDG. Student engagement profiles: A means for tailored pedagogical interventions across all university programs. $HK3.6M (+ internal grant of $HK111,000). 2002-2006.
7.	PI. CUHK. Enhancing student learning by understanding and disseminating strategies used by excellent university teachers. $HK250,000. 2002-2004.
8.	PI. Tendered project to LEARNet on the design and implementation of a pragmatic evaluation strategy for learning objects. $HK96,000. 2004.
9.	Team Leader. Revising learning and teaching materials of the compulsory module of the science & technology curriculum (S4-5). $HK50,000. 2004.
Total: $HK7,520,000
As Co-Investigator
10.	Co-PI. UGC-funded TDG. Promoting the use of the outcome-based approach in Science programmes: Development of learning outcome statements and measurement instruments. $HK1,000,000. 2006-2008.
11.	Co-PI. UGC-funded TDG. To review and refine a repository of case simulations developed by the Faculty of Medicine and to enable their use in faculty-wide summative assessments of undergraduate medical students. $HK496,341. 2006-2008.
12.	Co-PI. UGC-funded TDG. The Law students and the School of Law: Reflections on a four-year undergraduate degree. $HK430,000. 2006-2008.
13.	Co-PI. UGC-funded TDG. Achieving Designated Outcomes: measuring the integration of skills-related outcomes into the student learning experience. $HK500,000. 2006-2008.
14.	Co-PI. UGC-funded TDG. Support for innovative eLearning strategies: A supplementary platform for new teaching and learning software and objects. $HK129,500. 2006-2008.
15.	Evaluation Team Leader. A science enrichment programme for secondary 3-4 students. Quality Education Fund. $HK 2M. 2006-2008.
16.	Consultant in educational design and quality assurance. Education and Manpower Bureau. Production of learning and teaching materials for three modules in the new Senior Secondary Integrated Science Curriculum: E2 Keeping ourselves healthy, E3 Chemistry for world needs, C7 Radiation and us. $HK908,000. 2007-2008.
17.	Co-PI. UGC-funded TDG. Engaging science students in the design and enactment of assessment. $HK200,000. 2005-2007.
18.	Pedagogy convenor. Quality Education Fund. Case-based learning of high school science subjects to support Learning to Learn. $HK2.82M. 2003-2006.
19.	Co-I. UGC-funded TDG. Development of a comprehensive web-enabled learning system: A collaborative project based on three domains - New technologies, Site development, and evaluation. $HK5.0M. 2002-2006.
20.	Co-I. UGC-funded TDG. The establishment of a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program at three HK universities (CUHK, CityU, PolyU). $HK4.0M. 2002-2006.
21.	Pedagogy convenor. UGC-funded TDG. Incorporating skills in metacognition and case-based teaching and learning into tertiary physical science education. (CUHK, HKBU, CityU) $HK2.65M. 2002-2005.
Total: $HK20,133,841