Matthew Riddle

Current Position

February 2008 – Present
Educational Designer at Faculty of Law and Management, La Trobe University, Australia

Previous Experience

January 2006 – January 2008
Research Associate at Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies, The University of Cambridge

October 1997 – January 2006
Educational Designer at Information & Education Services, The University of Melbourne

January 1995 – August 1997
Research Fellow at Science Multimedia Teaching Unit, The University of Melbourne

January 1993 – January 1995
Programmer at Science Multimedia Teaching Unit, The University of Melbourne

Research Interests

I am interested in a broad range of higher education issues, and particularly in e-learning, and have done extensive work on innovations such as online role-plays. My research project at Cambridge used a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques in order to build a rich evidence base that will inform the University’s teaching and learning policy. A sub-project studied student perspectives on daily technology use in the context of their broader learning experience, and I have recently won a small grant to repeat some of this work in an Australian context.

Research Projects

• Riddle, M. (2008) ICTs in the daily lives of Australian Students (ASCILITE Grant awarded).
• Norman, J., Maughan, S., Riddle, M., Howell, C (2007) Learning Landscape Project, CARET, University of Cambridge.
• Howell, C., Riddle, M., Wilson, L., Hurst, S., Carmichael, P., and Norman, J. (2006) Knowledge Resource Network Project, CARET, University of Cambridge.
• Hirst, D., Riddle, M., Brooks, C. and Adam, D. (2005) A student evaluation framework for courseware development projects, The University of Melbourne.
• Hirst, D., Brooks, C., Riddle, M., and Adam, D. (2005) A formal qualitative evaluation of academics’ participation in collaborative curriculum development projects, The University of Melbourne.
• Keppell, M., Arnold, M., Guillemin, M., Deveny, E., Liaw, T., Pearce, C., Mulcahy, D., & Riddle, M. (2001) Evaluation of the Clinician’s Health Channel, The University of Melbourne.

Specialties

Qualitative research, higher education, e-learning consultancy, project management, development and implementation of innovative educational technologies.

Awards

• Winner of the ASCILITE Research Grant, 2007.
• Winning team in the Education category for the Financial Review Australian Internet Awards, 2001 for LaSWoP Project.
• Winning team of the 1999 ASCILITE Award for Best CD-ROM Project for An@tomedia.
• Four-time winner of Staff Scholarship to attend Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, San Jose, CA, USA (Apple University Developer Fund), 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2003.

Education

University of Melbourne (1997 - 2006)
MA, History and Philosophy of Science, achieved first class honours (H1).

Thesis title: ‘The roles actors perform: role-play and reality in a higher education context’

University of Melbourne (1989 - 1992)
BA, History and Philosophy of Science, Political Science

Selected Publications

• Riddle, M., and Arnold, M. (2008) The Shutdown Method: A Resource Kit.
• Riddle, M., and Arnold, M. (2007) The Day Experience Method: A Resource Kit.
• Riddle, M., Arnold, M., and Howell, C. (2007) Devices, demands, and desires: tracing technology use in the daily life of Cambridge students, Short Paper, ALT-C 2007 Conference, Nottingham, UK, September.
• Morales, R., Riddle, M., Wilson, L. and Boyle, T. (2007) Symposium: Study of Reuse of Learning Materials: lessons learned by KRN and application to the RLO-CETL, BERA 2007 Annual Conference, London, September.
• Riddle, M., Howell, C., Wilson, L. and Hurst, S. (2006) Symposium: Next Generation Repositories: Lessons from KRN, ALT-C 2006 Conference, Edinburgh, September.
• Hirst, D., Riddle, M., and Young, S. (2005) Maintaining the Momentum throughout The Campaign — Role-play in political communication, ASCILITE 2005 Conference, Brisbane, December.
• Hirst, D., Brooks C., and Riddle, M. (2004) Courseware Design and Development Program: Providing Professional Development and Project Experience, ASCILITE 2004 Conference, Perth, December.
• Keppell, M., Riddle, M. & Arnold, M. (2002). Evaluation and redesign of the Clinicians Health Channel. In P. Barker & S. Rebelsky (Eds). Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2002, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, June 24-29, Denver, Colorado, USA (pp. 964-969).