Hazel Owen's Page

Contact details

Email: info@ethosconsultancynz.com

Region: Auckland

Mobile: (021) 2273777

Hazel is available to consult in the following areas:

• Coaching and mentoring
• e-Learning and Learning Design
• ePortfolios
• Assessment
• Facilitation (virtual, inc. facilitating online Communities of Practice)
• Leadership
• Collaborative partnerships

Professional profile

Hazel received her MLITT from the University of Birmingham in 1996, and MA First class hons) in Applied Linguistics from the University of Waikato In 2003. She is Director, and education consultant with Ethos Consultancy NZ. Hazel has been recognised for her work in education in New Zealand and the Middle East and is a recipient of several awards and nominations for programme design, research, and teaching practice. She has had more than 15 years experience working with e-Learning in a range of institutions, and has managed and developed projects, as well as designing and facilitating innovative professional development initiatives. Furthermore, she has conducted a number of related research studies into the efficacy of education technology and has presented and published the results internationally.

In brief Hazel has:

• BA (First Class Hons), MA (First Class Hons), MLitt (MPhil equivalent), CELTA
• 10 years experience as a mentor and coach, including in virtual environments
• wide experience with the establishment and facilitation of effective online communities of practice / learning
• experience working with a wide range of learners from a variety of cultural backgrounds to help tailor professional learning programmes that meet their learning needs and preferences
• a strong design background and has developed her own ICT enhanced learning and teaching (ICTELT) model and framework.
• a strong understanding of the development of contextualised, social learning and how affective factors and social circumstances influence the professional learning process. These aspects are particularly important when designing and developing eLearning and training of any type.

Expertise

• Mentoring and coaching, especially in online contexts
• Establishing and facilitating online communities of practice.
• Working with others to develop leadership and facilitation skills.
• Virtual learning and teaching - with expertise in eLearning design, online facilitation and blended, flipped learning approaches.
• Review and design blended and/or online professional learning.
• Conducting research and evaluation.
• Presenting and publishing internationally.
• Developing concepts and processes using collaborative, iterative processes that includes evaluation.
• ePortfolios and eAssessment 
• Strategic planning and project management 
• Faculty reviews and professional development;
• Designing/building online and blended-learning courses 

Clients worked / working with include:

• Tai Poutini Polytechnic
• Otago Polytechnic
• Scratchpad
• Virtual Learning Network Primary
• Cyma Ltd (Enterprise architects)
• NZ College of Appearance MedicineNZ Ministry of Education (School sector: Virtual Professional Development and ESOL)
• NZ Ministry of Justice
• Bay of Plenty Polytechnic (NZ)
• Telford Rural Polytechnic (NZ)
• Laidlaw College (NZ)
• Open Polytechnic
• Unitec NZ (both as a full time Academic Advisor and as an independent eLearning consultant)
• University of Wollongong in Dubai (UAE)
• Cognition (NZ)
• Core Education (NZ)
• Language for Learning Consultants (NZ)
• Languages International (NZ)
• Dubai Men's College (UAE)
• Ministry of Communication and Housing (Qatar)
• The Learning Wave (NZ)
• Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind (NZ)
• Kidpower (NZ)

Qualifications

• BA (first class hons) Linguistics and Literary Studies,
• CELTA - A grade Languages International,
• MA Applied Linguistics (first class hons),
• MLitt,
• Te Rito o Te Reo: Karanga - Te Kàkano Certificate,
• Certificate in Business Coaching

Professional memberships

• International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) 
• Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (Ascilite)

Awards / Fellowships / Scholarships

• 2015: Nominated for Google for Education Innovator for facilitation of the Ethos Online Community
• 2012: Merit award for excellence in distance, open, flexible and eLearning (VPLD programme) - DEANZ 2012
• 2008: Best Presenter award at the EIT Teaching and Learning Conference and nominated for the Staff Excellence Awards: Research (Unitec NZ).
• 2007: Second in the Nikai Award for Innovation in Teaching. Hazel Owen's programme, Computers, Research Skills and Projects, nominated for and selected as one of the final four finalists in the Nikai Innovation in Education Technology Award.
• Received recognition for second place in ‘teaching faculty of the year’ 2005-2006 and 2004-2005
• 2005 - Best presenter's award at TESOL Arabia conference

Personal statement

I believe that by helping students and teachers keep alive their joy of learning we can contribute to the important cultural work of challenging the current status quo in results-driven education.

Through mentoring and coaching, I support people to recognise how collaboration and co-construction can help them on their journey to transformation. I am ardent about working with people to encourage them to rethink what education could be, so that it meets the needs of all our learners, any place, any time - no matter what the age of the learner. I feel it’s also about recognising everyone as being both learners and teachers, with something to contribute..

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