Dr Julie Lindsay

Biography

Dr Julie Lindsay is the Senior Education Technology Advisor in the Learning and Teaching Futures Portfolio at the University of Southern Queensland. In this role she is a thought leader and change agent advocating for digital transformation through embedded educational technologies and relevant pedagogies. Julie has 35+ years’ experience in K-12 schools and higher education as an innovator and leader in online learning. In 2020 Julie was the recipient of the Research in Educational Leadership and Management Award from the Australian Council for Educational Leaders. In 2023 she was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for University Educational Leadership "For fostering student reflective learning, employability and professional identity through a university-wide, sustained initiative leading to changed academic practice through integration of online portfolios".

Julie worked in international schools for fifteen years as an educational technology and online learning leader across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She is the author of two books: Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to global collaboration one step at a time, and The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching. Julie completed a PhD at UniSQ in 2019 entitled ‘Online global collaborative educators and pedagogical change’. This research offered innovative insights into educator beliefs, competencies and conceptual change as enablers to adopting a Global Collaborator Mindset with attributes of connection, openness, autonomy and innovation.

Artificial Intelligence is firmly on her agenda and in 2023 she established the AI for Learning and Teaching Collective, an internal, open community of practice with links to external partners that meets to share practice and develop better approaches for AI integration in higher education with a focus on the AI Pedagogy Project seeking to reimagine traditional approaches to education and foster innovation and integration in teaching and assessment methods. Related to this Julie, on behalf of UniSQ and in conjunction with the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), leads the newly formed global Technology and Innovation Network (TIN). In June 2024 Julie was the recipient of an Erasmus+ Staff Mobility nomination and spent time in Germany with a partner university, Justice Liebig University, Giessen.

Key research interests include the process for innovation and pedagogical change leveraged by educational technology and curriculum-embedded online global collaborative learning. She is currently researching practices and approaches to online global collaboration in higher education with a view to establishing an open community of practice and a robust framework to guide effective learning design and implementation. Read more here on her research website - https://create.usq.edu.au/global/

Julie is currently co-writing an open book on HyFlex learning - to be released in August 2024.

Julie can be found on LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/julieannelindsay

Website: Learning Confluence - https://learningconfluence.com/

Employment

Expertise

Online global collaboration, Educational technology, Learning environments, emerging pedagogies, online learning, HyFlex learning modes

Fields of Research

• 390303. Higher education
• 390307. Teacher education and professional development of educators
• 390405. Educational technology and computing
• 399999. Other education not elsewhere classified

Professional Membership