ABSTRACT
Professor Jan Herrington is based in the School of Education at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. She was formerly an English high school teacher in Victoria, and an instructional designer in multimedia at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Jan was only awarded her PhD in 1998, so her meteoric rise to professorship is notable (similar to some of the other professors featured in this book). In 2002, Jan received the Fulbright Scholarship award to conduct research in the United States, from the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. From 1998–2008, she attracted more than AUD$800,000 in research and teaching funding. Her much anticipated book, entitled A Guide to Authentic e-Learning, was released in 2009 (Herrington, Reeves and Oliver 2009). Jan’s other well-known books include Effective Use of the Internet: Keeping Professionals Working in Rural Australia (Herrington and Herrington 2006a), Authentic Learning Environments in Higher Education (Herrington and Herrington 2006b), and the recent electronic book, New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Mobile Learning in Higher Education (Herrington et al. 2009).
