Michael Winter
Michael Winter is a researcher at CORE.
Michael’s training is as a chemist/biochemist. He was involved in academic and industrial research—the latter in the pharmaceutical industry.
Michael trained in the secondary programme at Christchurch College of Education and taught in schools from Invercargill to Ruawai in Northland. He returned to Christchurch as a lecturer at the college, where he became involved in evaluating the Digital Opportunities projects.
He joined CORE early in 2004. He has been involved in a wide variety of evaluation and other projects including online workplace learning with the Tertiary Accord of New Zealand, the Second Life in Education in New Zealand initiative, and work with the Pasifika and Muslim communities. Currently, Michael is part of the CORE team carrying out research into the impact of co-location of schools in Christchurch following the recent earthquakes.
Michael worked with the Ministry of Education's e-Learning Fellows groups from the beginning of this initiative until the Ministry's funding ended in 2009. Since then he has been a key player in CORE's eFellowship programme. The aim of this programme is to establish and foster an ongoing eLearning community of practical experience and expertise in New Zealand.
The other key project Michael is involved with is leading CORE's Curriculum Development and ongoing support for the Royal Society of New Zealand's Primary Science Teacher Fellowship programme. This programme is funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and aims to help primary teachers become competent and confident teachers and leaders in science education.
• Evaluative research
• Soft Systems Methodology
• Science Education
• Facilitation and mentoring
- Winter M. (2008) The relationship between external evaluators and practitioner action researchers, presented at ANZEA Conference, Rotorua
- Smith T. and Winter M. (2008) Developing Strategies for Digital Transformation, presented at ANZTSR Conference, Auckland
- Winter M. (2008) e-Learning in the Workplace – a poster presentation to the conference on Evaluating Workplace Learning, Wellington 5 March
- Winter M. (2007) Canterbury Muslim and Halal Slaughtermen's Digital Outreach Project: the ICT Needs and Current Assets of the Communities unpublished report for the Department of Internal Affairs under the Community Partnership Fund
- Winter M., and Wenmoth D. (2007) Research Report Based on Software Trail (Mission Maker) Unpublished Report for the Ministry of Education
- Winter M. (2007) Effects of Organisational Culture on e-Learning in Public Sector Organisations accesible through http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php
- Winter M. (2006) Learning Management Systems for the Workplace: A Research Report accesible through http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php
- Winter M. (2006) Final Evaluation Research Report eCDF Project 124 “Delivering Applied eLearning in the Workplace: Polytechnics and ITOs Working Together” accesible through http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php"http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php
- Trewern A., Toubat H., and Winter M (2005) Digital Opportunities Programme 2005-2007 Evaluation Research Milestone 2. Unpublished Report for the Ministry of Education
- Trewern A., Toubat H., and Winter M (2005) Digital Opportunities Programme 2005-2007 Evaluation Research Milestone 1 Unpublished Report for the Ministry of Education
- Winter M. (2005) Evaluation Research on the TANZ-PSTO Online NCFLM Course – Milestone 2 accesible through http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php
- Winter M. (2005) Evaluation Research on the TANZ-PSTO Online NCFLM Course – Milestone 1 accesible through http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php http://www.tanz.ac.nz/projects_and_achievements/online_learning.php
- Winter M. (2004) Retrospective Study of Asure First Line Management e-Training Programme Unpublished Report for Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
- Winter M (2004) Digital Opportunities Evaluations What are the Lesssons? Session at Navcon 2k4, Christchurch.
- Winter M (2004) Use of Soft Systems Methodoloogy in the Evaluation of Two Business-Government Digital Initiatives in New Zealand Presented at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Hobart
- Winter M (2004) Digitally Boosted Study Support Centres Final Evaluation Report Produced for the Ministry of Education accesible on http://www.minedu.govt.nz/digiopseval
- Winter M (2004) Generation XP Final Evaluation Report Producedfor the Ministry of Education accesible on http://www.minedu.govt.nz/digiopseval
- Ham, V., Moeau, P., Williamson-Leadley, S., Toubat, H. and Winter, M. (2004). ICTPD Through Three Lenses: an evaluation of the 28 ICTPD School Clusters Programme 2001-2003. Unpublished report for the Ministry of Education.
• Winter M. (2008) The relationship between external evaluators and practitioner action researchers, presented at ANZEA Conference, Rotorua
• Smith T. and Winter M. (2008) Developing Strategies for Digital Transformation, presented at ANZTSR Conference, Auckland
• Winter M. (2008) e-Learning in the Workplace – a poster presentation to the conference on Evaluating Workplace Learning, Wellington 5 March
"I am interested in the whole systems way of looking at complex situations, and appreciate the insights gained from Soft Systems Methodology and similar holistic approaches. I have trained in Mind Mapping with Tony Buzan in London, and enjoy using and sharing this and similar techniques. I am also a trained counsellor and life coach. In my role as a science educator, I value practical approaches, including the use of data-logging technologies to gather real life data to enrich the learning experience."
