School of Education Research Staff Profile

Julie Hughes

Name	Julie Hughes
Title	Principal Lecturer PCE
Tel	01902 32 3106
Research group:	Member: RiHE Cluster; Childhood Research Cluster
E-mail	J.Hughes2@wlv.ac.uk

Developmental work and research activity

Julie’s practice and research explores the role of Web 2.0 technologies such as e-portfolios and blogs, and their attendant dialogic pedagogies. She is particularly interested in how these hybid learning and teaching practices might support transitions into the University/HEness, in the case of Foundation Degree students and into the workplaces of new teachers. Julie has been a passionate user of the University’s eportfolio system, PebblePaD since 2004.

Julie is a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellow (2005) and is seconded to ESCalate, an as Academic Consultant working on blended learning initiatives and HE in FE projects, for 2 days per week. She is a JISC Expert Consultant in e-portfolios and a member of the JISC Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group.

Please feel free to explore this research webfolio from 2006: E-portfolio storytelling as 'everyday theorising' and this 2008 webfolio from the JISC 2008 online conference Moving forward with e-portfolios: challenges, tensions and inspirations.

Key and recent publications on eportfolio

Hughes, J. (forthcoming 2010) ''But it's not just developing like a learner, it's developing as a person'. Reflections on e-portfolio-based learning.' in Sharpe, R., Beetham, H. and de Freitas, S. (eds) Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age. New York: Routledge
Hughes, J. (2009) Becoming an eportfolio teacher in Cambridge, D., Cambridge, B. and Yancey, K. (eds) Electronic Portfolios 2.0: Emergent Findings and Shared Questions. Washington, DC: Stylus Publishing.
Hughes, J., Lacey, C. and Purnell, E. (2009) Using blogs and e-portfolios to support reflective writing and ePDP in Foundation Degree Students in a School of Education. European First Year Experience 2008 Conference Proceedings. Institute for Learning Enhancement, University of Wolverhampton.
Hughes, J. (2008) Letting in the Trojan Mouse: using an e-portfolio system to rethink pedagogy.ASCILITE 2008 Melbourne Australia, Conference Proceedings.
Hughes, J. (2008) E-portfolio-based learning: a practitioner perspective. ELiSS Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences Volume 1 issue 2.
Hughes, J. (2008) Exploring eportfolios and weblogs as learning narratives in a community of new teachers. Journal of International Society for Teacher Education (JISTE) Volume 12, Number 1.
Hughes, J., Lacey, C. and Wise, D. (2008) ‘Beyond Projects and Piloting – Embedding an Eportfolio in a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) – an Innovation Too Far?’ Enhancing the Student Experience. Proceedings of the Third International Blended Learning Conference. Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press.
Hughes, J. and Purnell, E. (2008) Blogging for beginners? Using blogs and eportfolios in Teacher Education. Sixth International Networked Learning Conference Proceedings, Halkidiki, Greece, May 08.
Hulme, M. and Hughes, J. (2006) Patchwork E-dialogues in the professional development of new teachers in O’Donoghue, J (ed.) Technology Supported Learning and Teaching: A Staff Perspective. Idea Group Inc; Hershey.
Maiden, B., McCoy, T., Penfold, B., Duncan-Pitt, L and Hughes, J. (2007) Supporting learning and teaching innovation and building research capacity using an eportfolio: University of Wolverhampton, a case study. Educational Developments 8:1.
Purnell, E. and Hughes, J. (forthcoming) Exploring Foundation Degree student experiences of blogging in Calderon, D. and Nutt, D. (eds) International Perspectives on the First Year Experience in Higher Education

Other publications

Baig R, Dye VL, Herrington M, Hughes J, Kendall A, Lacey C, O’Leary M, Smith R, (2008) Space, Resistance and Identities: University-based Teacher Educators Developing a Community of Practice, Chapter in Kimble C and Hildreth P. (eds) Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, Information Age Publishing.
Duncan, N., Prowse, S., Hughes, J. and Burke, D. (2007) ‘…do that and I’ll raise your grade.’ Innovative module design and recursive feedback in Teaching in Higher Education. 12 4.
French, A and Hughes, J (2006) Developing reflective writing in first year undergraduate Childhood Studies students. This case study is also available as an e-portfolio.
Hughes, J (2005) “I didn’t have a voice until I joined this group.” The use of dialogue journals in the education of new teachers, Journal of Vocational Education and Training 57 1.
Abrams, N. and Hughes, J. (2000) (eds.) Containing America: Cultural production and consumption in fifties America. Universityof Birmingham Press: Birmingham
Hughes, J. Romance and history: Anya Seton’s The Winthrop Woman in Abrams, N. and Hughes, J. (2000) Containing America: Cultural production and consumption in fifties America. University of Birmingham Press; Birmingham.

Practitioner case studies

Practitioner use of eportfolio featured in: JISC publication Effective practice with e-portfolios (2008)
Practitioner use of eportfolio featured as a case study in: Goodfellow, R. and Lea, M. (2007) Challenging E-learning in the University. Buckinghamshire. Open University Press
Practitioner use of eportfolio featured in: Supporting Lifelong Learning. The proceedings of the JISC Innovating e-Learning 2007 online conference online conference proceedings
The Learner’s Voice and In their own words (2007) JISC publications - featuring two PGCE students (Emma Purnell and Jenny Woodhams) and their use of eportfolio
Practitioner case study contributor to JISC infonet CAMEL Tangible Benefits of E-learning (2007) project
Self and students featured as practitioners in educational documentary programme on eportfolios – TV Choice Film makers (2008)
Approach to facilitating reflective practice featured in Bolton, G. (2005) Reflective Practice. Writing and Professional Development. 2^nd Edition. Paul Chapman Publication: London GoogleBooks link