ABOUT ME

Dawn Gilmore, Phd

Dawn Gilmore has over 15 years of practice and research in teaching and learning in higher education. She has worked in institutions in the United States, Australia, Japan, England, China, and most recently South Africa. She has a M.S.Ed. in Intercultural Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S.Ed. in Social Sciences from Temple University. Her Ph.D. research explored where and with whom university students experience learning. During her doctoral candidature she was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Development at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), where she researched the role of communities of practices in a Post Graduate Diploma of Higher Education. Overall, her research seeks to understand how students’ learning is situated across time and spaces. She also has broader interests in learning, community, and technology. Dawn is currently writing a book that is largely based on the ideas found on this website. If you would like to chat about any of these topics or request a presentation, please get in touch.

About Me: Bio

RESEARCH OUTCOMES

Peer Reviewed Work

Gilmore, Dawn. (2016). Learning in landscapes of practice: boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning, Higher Education Research & Development, 35:2, 415-417, DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2016.1107939

Gilmore, D. (2014). Goffman’s Front Stage and Backstage Behaviors in Online Education. Journal of Learning Analytics, 1(3), 187-190.

Unpublished Peer Reviewed Work

Gilmore, Dawn. (2017). Where and with whom do students learn in an online university subject? A multiple case study analysis. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Gilmore, Dawn. (2016). A Case Study Evaluation using Community of Practice Theory: 2015 Post Graduate Diploma of Higher Education. Unpublished program evaluation report, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Gilmore, Dawn. (2009). An examination of matriculation programs for international students and the presence of intercultural communications. Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA.

Peer Reviewed Conference Papers

Gilmore, Dawn. (2017). Dramaturgy: A sociological perspective for conceptualising Me. Us. IT in the context of online learning. To be presented at Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, University of Southern Queensland.

Gilmore, Dawn. (2016). The imagined communities of learners. Presented at The Australian Sociological Association, Australian Catholic University.

Gilmore, Dawn. (2016). A dramaturgical perspective of online university students: A case study of a second year psychology subject. Presented at the Transforming Learning Conference, Swinburne University.

Gilmore, Dawn. (2015). Classmates in my pocket: Seamless learning in (some) online university subjects. Presented at Swinburne University & anzMLearn Symposium, Melbourne.

Gilmore, Dawn. (2015). Lifewide learning: An exploration of lifewide classmate. Presented at the International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Gilmore, Dawn. (2015). How does learner participation impact community of practice formation? Presented at the Teaching and Learning Forum, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Gilmore, Dawn. (2014). A micro-sociological framework for investigating blind spots in online student behaviors. Presented at the International Symposium of Microanalysis of Online Data, University of York, UK.

Gilmore Gilmore, Dawn. (2014). Under what conditions does a community of practice form in online learning? Lightning Talk and Poster Presentation at Learning Analytics Summer Institute, Society of Learning Analytics Research, Harvard University.

Media Interviews

McGorrery, P., Gilmore, D. (2016). The dangers of predicting criminals. Drive 2SER Real Radio 107.3 FM.

McGorrery, P., Gilmore, D. (2016). Who done it? Or who will do it? Can we predict crime? The Daily 2SER Real Radio 107.3.

Guest Blog Posts

Gilmore, Dawn. (2013). Managing Differences in the Supervisor-Candidate relationship? https://researchvoodoo.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/managing-differences/

Current Projects

An Autoethnography of Online Teaching: What a content analysis of my discussion board posts taught me about my practice

Three journal articles under peer review

About Me: CV