Prof. Alan Amory

Alan Amory is Director of the Centre for IT in Higher Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. Alan is the principal author of the on-line learning system (OLS) used by the University, is involved in research related to the use of technology and games in education and a members of international journal review boards and a member of the ED-MEDIA Congress steering committee.

Recent peer reviewed publications:

AMORY, A. 2001. Building an Educational Adventure Game: Theory, Design, and Lessons. Journal of Interactive Learning Research 12: 249-264.
AMORY, A. and R. SEAGRAM. 2003. Educational game models: conceptualization and evaluation. South African Journal of Higher Education 17(2), 206 – 217.
FOKO, F. and AMORY, A. 2005. Development, evaluation and use of an assessment instrument to measure learning skills. Education as Change 9(2), 24-45.
AMORY, A. 2006. Academic Administration Puppet Master/Sicelankobe? The Consequences. South African Journal of Higher Education (In Press).

Recent conference publications include:

AMORY, A. 2003. Another Country: Virtual Learning Spaces. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, 2003(1), 708-715.
AMORY, A. 2005. Learning Objects: Just Say No! World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005(1), 1539-1544.
AMORY, A. 2005. Designing Games to Foster Social Network Development. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005(1), 1947-1952.
AMORY, A, 2005. The false promise of reusable learning objects. WWW Apps 2005 http://www.uj.ac.za/www2005/documents/AmoryAM.pdf.

Invited/Keynote presentations:

AMORY, A. 1999. Theory, Tools & Teaching - Making learning fun. Australian and New Zealand Associations for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
AMORY, A. 2003. Another Country: Virtual Learning Spaces. ED-MEDIA, Hawaii, USA.
AMORY, A. 2004. I Believe: A Short History of Technology in the Classroom. SAAB conference, 19-22 January, UKZN, Durban, SA.
AMORY, A. 2004. Technology in the classroom: A journey of discovery over the past 10 years. University of the North Symposium, 17-20 February, Polokwane, SA.
AMORY, A. 2005. Open Learning System. Common-Sense Conference: Towards an African Digital Information Commons, 24-27 May, Link Centre, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA.