Staff Profiles - Geoff White

Senior Lecturer

Qualifications: PhD, MEd St, DipEd, BAppSci

Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education
Building Two, Level One,
270 Ferntree Gully Road,
Notting Hill  VIC   3168

                               Tel: +61 3 9501 5535
                               Fax: +61 3 9501 5546

                               Email: geoff.white@med.monash.edu.au

Background:

Geoff’s background is in residential adolescent care, juvenile justice, high school biology teaching and university teacher education. His learning and teaching activities have focused upon how to cater for learner diversity, curriculum design and innovative teaching strategies. Geoff has particular interests in loss and grief education, the development of engaging and challenging online learning environments and effective teaching in general.

Although Geoff's primary professional activities have been located within teacher education since he completed over a decade of high school teaching in the late 80s, he has also studied, researched and consulted in the health sector. He has conducted research in intensive care nursing education, quality assurance in relation to national organ donation practices and has managed a variety of program evaluation studies in the education and health domains.

Geoff is vitally interested in exploring options for maintaining a viable balance between his professional life and his life with wife Lyn and daughters Jessica and Sarah. He is also passionate about learning environments and workplaces that are safe, supportive, engaging, challenging and inclusive of all participants.

Geoff coordinates the CMHSE Master of Health Professional Education course, teaches within the Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education and is the Academic Advisor for Years 1 and 5 of the Monash MBBS course.

Research Interests

1. Attributes of effective face-to-face, clinical and online learning environments;
2. Cultural and ethnic influences on attitudes in relation to organ donation;
3. Learning and teaching in the health sciences.

Recent Publications & Conference papers

Kiegaldie, D. & White, G. (2006). The Virtual Patient: Development, implementation and evaluation of an innovative computer simulation for postgraduate nursing students Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. Vol 15 (1) pp (31 – 47).

Nicholson, P. & White, G. (2005) Real-life learning in higher education: embedding and modelling the effective use of ICT. In: Weert, T. & Tatnell, A. (Eds.) Information and Communication Technologies and Real-Life Learning: New Education for the Knowledge Society. Springer Boston.

White, G. & Gillott, J. (2005) Family experiences of organ donation: Report of the 4th ATCA national donor family study. Paper presented to the 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand annual conference, Canberra, May 11-13.

White, G. & Gillott, J. (2005) Quality of care provided to donor families in intensive care before and during organ donation. Abstract currently under review for the European Transplant Coordinators’ Organization annual conference, Geneva, October 15-18.

White, G. & Gillott, J. (2005) The Donation decision – families elaborate on factors surrounding their decision to donate. Abstract currently under review for the European Transplant Coordinators’ Organization annual conference, Geneva, October 15-18.

Kiegaldie, DJ & White, G. (2004) The Virtual Patient: Development, implementation and evaluation of an innovative computer simulation for postgraduate nursing students. In Cantoni, L & McLoughlin, C. (Eds). Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA 2004 World Conference. ISBN: 1-880094-53-3.

White, G. (2004) Family Experiences of Organ Donation. Melbourne: Australasian Transplant Coordinators' Association.

White, G. (2003) Intensive Care Nurses’ Perceptions of Brain Death. Australian Critical Care, 16, 1, 7-14.

Nicholson, P. and White, G. (2002) Teaching for quality learning online: a layered design model for higher-order thinking, Networking the learner: computers in education, pp. 49-58, Kluwer, Netherlands.

Nicholson, P. S. & White, G. D. (2002) A framework for facilitating higher-order strategic thinking in online management development. In R. Traunmulle (Ed.), Information Systems - The E-Business Challenge (pp. 199-207). New York: Kluwer.

Nicholson, P. & White, G. (2001) Teaching for Quality Learning Online: A layered Design Model for Higher-order Thinking. In D. Watson & J. Andersen (Eds.), Computers in Education (pp. 49-58). Copenhagen, DK: Kluwer.

Nicholson, P. & White, G. (2001) Teaching for Quality Learning Online: A layered Design Model for Higher-order Thinking. Book of abstracts: Networking the Learner. WCCE2001. J. Andersen and C. Mohr. Copenhagen, DK, UNI-C: 76.

Nicholson, P. S. & White, G. (2001) Developing Higher-order thinking with ICT. Paper presented at the Australian Institute of Training and Development Seminar on Online Learning, Melbourne, October 5.

Nicholson, P. S. & White, G. (2001) A Framework for using ICT for developing management thinking. Paper presented at the Australian Institute of Training and Development: Adult Learning Week seminar, Melbourne, August 10.

White, G. (2000) National donor family study. Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Australasian Transplant Coordinators Association, Canberra, March 12.

Recent Projects

2006 Analysis of health professionals' educational and training needs in relation to organ donation. Funding body: Australasian Donor Awareness Program for Transplantation. Investigators: Kiegaldie, D. & White, G.

2005 Team member: Ethics in Sport curriculum development for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games Committee.

2003 Project Manager: Evaluation of the Virtual Patient multimedia program for Monash University, School of Nursing.

2003 Project Manager: Evaluation of the Virtual Ward multimedia program for Monash University, School of Nursing.

2002 Project Manager: Evaluation of the Global Communities curriculum innovation, St Margaret’s School.

Project Manager: Evaluation of the Victorian Department of Human Services Learn CPR: the Key to Survival community CPR training program.