Sandra Wills

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swills@uow.edu.au

Professor Sandra Wills has been Director of the Centre for Educational Development & Interactive Resources at University of Wollongong for 13 years. Her major project for the past two years has been to develop the University's Strategic Plan for eLearning and Teaching along with implementing a new Learning Management System.

Sandra has over 30 years international experience in the field of education and technology from primary through to university education including teacher training, curriculum development, software development and senior management. She has authored close to 150 publications, is active on the international lecture circuit, and is counting down to her 100th invited keynote address.

She has attracted more than $2.5 million in grants and $60,000 paid consultancies in her career plus $9 million for a Cooperative Multimedia Centre, Impart. Her current research area is online role play, learning designs and learning objects, for example, a $500,000 collaborative national project on Learning Designs (2001-2003) funded by the Australian Universities Teaching Committee, has been followed by a $200,000 Carrick Institute grant for Project EnRoLE: Encouraging Role-based Learning Environments.

Sandra was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) in 1991 and a Fellow of the Australian Council for Computers in Education in 2002. Awards include ACS Lecturer of the Year and an IFIP International Silver Core for long-term service to computers in education as chair of several national and international conferences, boards and committees.

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