Alison McGregor is a Teaching Focused Academic in numeracy, a teacher, lecturer, and researcher of AI, science and mathematics, STEM education.
Alison has held range of leadership roles in schools and universities. She is the manager of the early learning sector in the VU Action Group for Equality and Inclusion of Gender Diversity in Research (AGEIGD), Unit Convenor of Teaching Mathematics units within masters and undergraduate teaching courses and Chief Emergency Warden. Within schools, she has held positions of Head of Science and Science Coordinator.
Alison manages the AI Our Way secondary school excursion program that runs through the VU Cyber Security and Training Operations Centre (CSOC) at Victoria University, St Albans. She supported the integration of AI into a secondary school mathematics curriculum.
Alison’s teaching roles expand from Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, to Fujian Province, P.R.China and California, United States of America. Alison’s research includes mixed methods research in student engagement in mathematics and the PBL pedagogy, case-study research into the roles of mathematics and science within interdisciplinary STEM settings, and participatory action research in praxis-informed development and implementation of a new model of AI pedagogy, AIEdTechism.
Unit Convenor - ETP5003, ETP5004, EEC2107 & EEC3100.
Practitioner-Researcher.
Chief Emergency Warden, Active Researcher & Shared Chair role in Equality in Research Committee, Active research member in Women in IT (WIIT) group, Co-secretary of HDR Conference Committee, Sub-Editor and Chapter Author in Doctoral Research: Narratives of practice book
EMPE, EBED, ECE and Grad Dip. Education.
ETP5003, ETP5004, EEC2105, EEC1103, EDC1004, ETP5007, EEC4102
McGregor, A. (2015). Year 10 National Australian Science Curriculum Teracher and Student Workbooks, Kilbaha Publishing. McGregor, A. (2017).
Teach Yourself Series – VCE Chemistry. The Specialist School of Mathematics (TSSM), Melbourne, Australia. McGregor, A. (2016).
Teach Yourself Series – VCE Physics. The Specialist School of Mathematics (TSSM), Melbourne, Australia. McGregor, A. (2015).
Teach Yourself Series – VCE Biology. The Specialist School of Mathematics (TSSM), Melbourne, Australia.
McGregor, A. (2023). Using Vignettes within Autoethnography to Reflect on Doctoral Research Pathways from Imagining to constructing innovative AI Pedagogy and Improved Self-awareness as a Teacher-Researcher. In Marcelle Cacciattolo & Mark Vicars (Eds.), Doing Doctoral Research: Narratives of Practice. Melbourne, Australia: Brill | Sense.
McGregor, A. (2024). How can democratic STEM classroom practices guide student engagement in and understanding of AI? The Twentieth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society. Valencia University, Valencia, Spain.
McGregor, A. (2023). Juxtaposing the application of AI and Gaming Technology in Education: Vignettes from Australia and China, Higher Education Research Development and Scholarship Advancement (HERDSA), Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia.
McGregor, A. (2018). Implications for using the Representational Constructionist Approach (RCA) to teach Chemistry, Deakin University Centre for Research for Educational Impact Conference, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
McGregor, A. (2015). How to best teach VCE Chemistry. Science Teachers Association of Victoria Conference (STAVcon), La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.
McGregor, A. (2017). Non-traditional ways to teach Science and Mathematics using the National Australian Curriculum, Science Teachers Association of Victoria Conference (STAVcon), La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.
