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Professor Denise Kirkpatrick is Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning, Teaching and Quality at The Open University where she is responsible for strategic leadership of the University's design and delivery of supported, open-learning learning materials. She leads the research of new applications of ICT to support learning and teaching, and the development of university policy relating the application of new media. She is responsible for overseeing Quality Assurance policy, practice and standards. She was previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at La Trobe University in Australia and has worked in a number of Australian universities, leading and managing distance learning operations and as an academic. She has a PhD in teaching and learning and has worked extensively in the area of teaching and learning policy and practice, with an emphasis on the application of new media in on and off campus learning.
Her recent research investigates the ways Millennials approach learning and ways of creating effective and engaging learning experiences for these students. Her previous research has investigated effective design for learning with new technologies and student engagement in e-learning. She developed the award winning Mekong e-Sim, an online role play simulation which was used to teach students in Australian and Malaysian universities and was a member of the team responsible for the CATS project - Creating Accessible Teaching and Support -a suite of projects to support staff teaching students with disabilities.
Denise Kirkpatrick was President of the Australasian Council on Open Distance E-Learning (ACODE) for four years and led the establishment of ACODE benchmarks for technology supported learning and the introduction of the ACODE Learning Technologies Leadership Institute. Denise has worked as an educational consultant in Australasia, South East Asia and Africa.