Jennifer Lock

Dr. Jennifer Lock grew up in Saskatchewan. Jennifer attended the University of Saskatchewan where she completed her Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Arts degrees and later completed a Masters of Education degree in Educational Administration. In 2004, Jennifer convocated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Educational Technology at the University of Calgary.

Dr. Lock has experience as both a school administrator and teacher in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. She taught in the Teacher Education Program at Aurora College in NWT. Later, she worked as a Coordinator of Distance Education and Technology at Aurora College before moving to Calgary to pursue her doctoral studies. Currently, Dr. Lock teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary.

Dr. Lock’s research interests are in the following three areas: 1) E-learning with a specific focus in distance education, online learning communities, and building capacity of online educators; 2) Technology integration in education and teacher education that involves designing learning in technology-enhanced learning environments, online collaboration, and one-to-one mobile computing; and 3) Change and innovation in education (teaching, learning and leading) with a specific interest in leading innovation, in classrooms, schools and districts, involving educational technology.

Current Projects:

Project: Evaluation of Three High Performing School Jurisdictions in the Application of 21st Century Learning
Funding Agency: College of Alberta School Superintendents

Doctor of Philosophy
University of Calgary

Master of Education (Thesis)
University of Saskatchewan

Bachelor of Arts
University of Saskatchewan

Bachelor of Education
University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Lock is a member of the following professional organizations: American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE), Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). In addition, Dr. Lock is a committee member for the WestCAST 2012 Conference.

Redmond, P. & Lock, J. (2013). TPACK: Exploring a Secondary Pre-service Teachers’ Context. In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (pp. 5084-5091). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.  TPACK SIG Paper Award for 2013 and Outstanding Paper Award

Jacobsen, M., Lock, J., & Friesen, S. (2013). Strategies for Engagement: Knowledge Building and Intellectual Engagement in Participatory Learning Environments. Education Canada, 53(1), 14-18.

Lock, J.V. (2012). How Are We Designing Learning that Integrates Digital Technology? Language Matters, Language Research Centre, University of Calgary, 4(1), 2-3.

Lock, J.V. & Redmond, P. (2011). International online collaboration: Giving voice to the study of diversity, One World in Dialogue, 1(1), 19 - 25.

Redmond, P. & Lock, J. V. (2011). Does Teaching Presence Change Over Time? In S. Barton, et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011 (pp. 2231 – 2240). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. [Received an Outstanding Paper Award]

Friesen, S. & Lock, J.V. (2010). High Performing Districts in the Application of 21st Century Learning Technologies: Review of the Research. Prepared for the College of Alberta School Superintendents (57 pages).

Alberta Education. (2010). Emerge One-to-One Laptop Learning Initiative: Final Report. Prepared by The Metiri Group and the University of Calgary for School Technology Sector. (82 pages).

Lock, J. V. (2009). Inquiry, immigration and integration: ICT in preservice teacher education. In D. Mukherjee (Ed.), Information and Communication Technology: Changing Education (pp. 72 - 91). Andhra Pradesh, India: ICFAI University Press.

• Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Organization (TPACK) paper award 2013.
• Faculty of Education Teaching Excellence Award to Dr. Jennifer Lock, 2011-2012.
• Outstanding Paper Award Redmond, P. & Lock, J. V. (2011). Does Teaching Presence Change Over Time? In S. Barton et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011 (pp. 2231-2240). AACE.
• Excellence in Education Award from the Australian College of Educators, Darling Downs Region (2009) for the project entitled “International Online Collaboration for Pre-service Teachers” involving the University of Southern Queensland and University of Calgary

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