Rate My Professor Dawn Gilmore

Gilmore earned her PhD from Swinburne University of Technology, M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania, and B.S. from Temple University. With more than two decades of experience in higher education, she has worked as a researcher, lecturer, unit coordinator, and academic developer. Her academic interests encompass online pedagogy, university program evaluation, academic quality assurance, simulated learning curriculum, benchmarking to international standards like the Bologna Process, and learning analytics. Notable projects include leading a university-wide Academic Quality and Enhancement Process, reviewing simulated learning law curriculum, and serving as a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand Centre for Learning, Teaching & Development in 2015. She is the editor of the Routledge book "The Remaking of the University Educator: Transforming Teacher Identities in Higher Education." Other key publications feature "Implementing a coaching model for the development of online teaching practice" (2020) and "Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education: Approaches to Policy, Quality, and Leadership" (2022). Gilmore has presented peer-reviewed papers at conferences including ASCILITE and TASA, and spoken at events for TEQSA and DEAC. As President of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA), she contributes significantly to advancing open and distance learning practices. She is a member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and the Microanalysis of Online Data Network (MOOD), and reviews books for HERDSA.