Distinguished ProfessorNiki Davis

Emeritus Professor

School of Social and Cultural Studies

  • Emeritus Professor
    School of Social and Cultural Studies

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

  • EDITORIAL
    Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning
    1 Jan 2013
  • MEMBERSHIP
    1 Jan 2010
    Elected President of DEANZ, the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (2010-2011) and member since 2008 - http://www.deanz.org.nz/ This has also included being a member of the conference organising committee for the bi-annual conference 2012.
  • MEMBERSHIP
    1 Jan 2010 - 1 Jan 2013
    Elected President of DEANZ, the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (2010-2011) and member since 2008 - http://www.deanz.org.nz/ This has also included being a member of the conference organising committee for the bi-annual conferences. The President is a member of the national TeLRG advisory group to the Ministry, Ako Aotearoa etc.
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1 Jan 2006
    Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK (2006-2008). There is a competitive selection process for appointing scholars to this role. The collaboration with this prestigious University continues, particularly with the Department of Education, which collaborated with our research into e-learning for adults with literacy needs.
  • MEMBERSHIP
    International Federation of Information Processing
    1 Jan 1998
    Member of International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 3.6 for Distance Education (1998-present). As noted in relation to IFIP WG 3.3 for research this membership is invited as is participation in workshops etc.
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Society of Information Technology in Teacher Education
    1 Jan 1998
    Member of the Society of Information Technology in Teacher Education and member of Executive (1998-present)
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Invited keynote address at the SITE 2009 Conference, Charlotte North Carolina, March 2009. This was the 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Information Technology in Teacher Education with around 1500 participants from around 50 countries. My address was entitle: The Co-Evolution of Information Technology and Education.
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Invited presentations plus chair of research working group for international EduSummITs in June 2009 and 2011. My research and related leadership have led to invited presentations at both of the international summits on ICT in primary and secondary education. In the 2009 EduSummIT in The Hague, The Netherlands, I was a leader of the working group on research and led its report. In 2011 EduSummIT held in UNESCO head quarters in Paris, France, I led TGW on the re structuring and leadership of schools. This also involved the collaborative production of briefing papers and reports.
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Niki Davis (2009). eLearning for literacy and numeracy in workplace training. Presentation to the Industry Training Federation Literacy Network Meeting, Wellington, November 2009. Followed by invitation for presentation in June 2010.
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Invited keynote address at the Sixth CIRTA Conference (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en technologies d'apprentissage), taking palce in Laval University, Quebec, Canada (November 2009). I presented: "E-Learning: A lever of systemic amplitude" I was invited by the conference chair Professor Therese Laferriere
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Invited presentations plus chair of research working group for international EduSummITs in June 2009 and 2011. My research and related leadership have led to invited presentations at both of the international summits on ICT in primary and secondary education. In the 2009 EduSummIT in The Hague, The Netherlands, I was a leader of the working group on research and led its report. In 2015 EduSummIT held in UNESCO Bangkok, I led TGW on the re structuring and leadership of schools. This also involved the collaborative production of briefing papers and reports. http://www.curtin.edu.au/edusummit/about.cfm
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    To edit Keynote address and related resources including video clips ...
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Davis, N.E. (2016) Keynote: Could Smart Partnerships level the paying field in the arena of change with ICT in education? SaITE IFIP TC3 JOint OPen Conference, Guimaraes, Portugal, 6-8 July. Davis, N.E. (2015) Keynote: ICOFE international conference, Hong Kong, July Davis, N.E. (2014) Keynote: Prizing Open Education, Rhetoric and Reality. Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 31st annual ASCILITE conference "Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology', 23 – 26 November 2014. Dunedin. Davis, N.E. (2013) Invited presentation The co-evolution of digital technologies and tertiary education to the Higher Education Summit, Auckland. Davis, N.E. (2012) Keynote: ITEC conference in Israel, January 2012