Dr Katharina Freund
Areas of expertise
- Higher Education 130103
- Educational Technology And Computing 130306
- Teacher Education And Professional Development Of Educators 130313
- Communication And Media Studies 2001
- Communication Technology And Digital Media Studies 200102
- Media Studies 200104
- Screen And Media Culture 200212
Research interests
Katie is a researcher in education technology, higher education and professional learning, and learning design. She also researches fan studies, digital communication, and social media from a cultural studies perspective.
Unfortunately, Katie is not able to offer supervision to any prospective research students at this time.
Biography
Originally from Canada, Katie completed her PhD in digital communication and media studies from the University of Wollongong in 2012, investigating fan-made remix videos and media fandom. She worked as a Senior Learning Designer for ANU Online from 2015 - 2019, advising and delivering professional development for academics on technology-enhanced learning.
Katie is now the Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching (TELT) Manager for the ANU Medical School, where she leads a team of learning designers and technologists to create online resources, manage education technologies, and provide learning design advice for the School.
Researcher's projects
Katie's current research interests include the use of social media in teaching, professional learning in higher education, and blended learning designs.
Publications
- Freund, K 2016, '"Fair use is legal use": Copyright negotiations and strategies in the fan-vidding community', New Media and Society, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 1347-1363.
- Kizimchuk, S, Freund, K, Prescott, M et al. 2016, 'Collective effervescence: Designing MOOCs for emotion and community', 33rd International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE Adelaide 2016, ed. S. Barker, S. Dawson, A. Pardo, and C. Colvin, University of South Australia, Australia, pp. 348-353.
- Mewburn, I, Freund, K & Rutherford, E 2014, 'Badge trouble: piloting open badges at the Australian National University', Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology, ed. B Hegarty, J McDonald, SK Loke, ASCILITE: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Dunedin New Zealand, pp. 643-648.