Lecturer
Office: IT Building 6-59, Hatfield Campus
Tel: +27 12 420 4681
Qualifications
BIS Multimedia, BIS (Hons) Multimedia, MIS Multimedia (Pretoria)
Ms. Smith joined the department in mid-2014 as an assistant lecturer. Before this, she was employed as a Multimedia design intern at EPI-USE. She is currently completing her doctoral studies at Tampere University in Finland under the supervision of Prof. Juho Hamari, Dr. Daniel Fernández Galeote and Dr. Zampeta Legaki, as a member of the Gamification Group. Her studies focus on the effective use of gamification in flipped classroom environments in higher education.
Research
Interest:
- Gamification and game-based learning
- Teaching and learning
- Educational technology
- Human-computer interaction
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Modules offered
Programme coordinator:
- BIS Multimedia
- BIS (Hons) Multimedia
- MIS Multimedia
Module coordinator and lecturer:
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IMY 110 – Multimedia: Mark-up languages
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IMY 120 – Multimedia: Multimedia for the web
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IMY 777 – Animation theory and practice
Lecturer:
- IMY 761 – Multimedia research project
Postgraduate supervisor
- Master’s dissertations
- Honours projects
Recent publications and presentations
- Bosman, I. de V., Smith, A., Ka, K.S.D., de Beer, K., 2023. The experience of using virtual reality for interactive spatial visualisation of environmental data, in: Proceedings of the 7th International GamiFIN Conference. Presented at the GamiFIN 2023, CEUR-WS, Levi, Finland, pp. 164–175.
- Smith, A., Fernández Galeote, D., Legaki, N.-Z., Hamari, J., 2023. Gamified metacognitive prompts in a higher education flipped classroom, in: 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference. Presented at the Mindtrek ’23: 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, ACM, Tampere Finland, pp. 95–107. https://doi.org/10.1145/3616961.3616990
- Smith, A., Legaki, N.Z., Hamari, J., 2022. Games and gamification in flipped classrooms: A systematic review, in: Proceedings of the 6th International GamiFIN Conference. Presented at the GamiFIN 2022, CEUR, Tampere (online), pp. 33–43.
Achievements
- Winner of the Teaching and Learning Award for the Department of Information Science (2019, 2021)
- Third place for the EBIT Faculty Teaching and Learning Award (2021)
- Nominated best Information Technology lecturer by the EBIT student body (2020)
- Tuks Young Research Leader Fellow – Future Africa (intake of 2019)
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