Associate Professor Kim Blackmore

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Associate Professor
ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics

Assoicate Professor Kim Blackmore is a Senior Educational Developer, Experiences Team in the School of Cybernetics. She is interested in distributed and de-centralised systems that support and enable local action for greater good, across a wide range of domains. Kim has a particular interest in the human, technological and ecological systems that constitute higher education.

Kim has been a leader of education innovation in higher education and an early adopter of technology to improve teaching and learning. As Convener of the Digital Learning Project in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), Kim led the team which created the world's first bilingual MOOC. As an academic in the Research School of Engineering, Kim taught Signals and Systems, Communications Technologies and Modelling and Optimisation, contributed to the higher degree research student mentoring, and managed student project based learning. Kim founded the Educational Development Group for the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science and was a leader of the Engineering Hubs and Spokes project, which included sharing design, development and delivery of courses with the University of South Australia. As Engineering Education Strategist, Kim developed operational and logistical plans for problem based learning in the Systems Design core of the Bachelor of Engineering degree.  

Kim has been Director of Learning and Teaching at the University of Canberra (UC) and at ANU. At UC, Kim managed the education quality, innovation, and technology functions of the university, as well as the library and careers services. Key projects at UC included a whole-of-institutional curriculum review and roll-out of a new learning management system. At  ANU, Kim led the Interactive Learning Project, a strategic ANU project aiming to leverage social interaction to activate the on-campus education experience and enhance student learning, and led the Centre for Learning and Teaching through the tumult of pivoting in an out of remote learning in response to COVID-19, including rapid adoption of enabling teaching and assessment technologies.

Kim has conducted research in Education Innovation, the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching, Machine Learning, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, Document Image Processing and Anomalous Change Detection in Communication Networks, as an academic and as a Research Scientist in Defence Science and Technology.

Research interests

Current:

  • Decarbonisation and energy transition
  • Systems thinking, cybernetics
  • Recylcing, circular economy
  • Distrbuted energy, food and waste systems
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to higher education
  • Educational technology and it's impact on the higher education system

Earlier work

  • Machine Learning
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Groups

  • Dart, S, Trad, S & Blackmore, K 2021, 'Navigating the path from technical engineering to engineering education research: a conceptual model of the transition process', European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 1076-1091.
  • Browne, C, Johns-Boast, L, Flint, S et al. 2020, 'Capstone design projects, the project value map and the many eyes process: Balancing process and product to deliver measurable value to student and client', International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 586-599.
  • Blackmore, K, Browne, C & Smith, J 2019, 'Project-based application streams to support student motivations and external engagement', 30th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, AAEE2019, Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Brisbane, pp. 17-25.
  • Blackmore, K, Browne, C, Johns-Boast, L et al. 2019, 'Students' Perceptions of Individual and Group Performance in Capstone Projects', Realising Ambitions: 6th Annual Symposium of the United Kingdom & Ireland Engineering Education Research Network, UK&IE EER Network 2018, ed. M Malik, J Andrews, R Clark, R Penlington & R Broadbent, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, pp. 45-58.
  • Dart, S, Blackmore, K, Willey, K et al 2019, 'Moving from crime and punishment to success and reward: transitioning from technical to educational research', 8th Research in Engineering Education Symposium, REES 2019, ed. Bruce Kloot, South African Society for Engineering Education, South Africa, pp. 329-338.
  • Lynch, E, Smith, J, Blackmore, K et al. 2018, 'A chemist, engineer and environmental scientist walk into a classroom... Outcomes from an interdisciplinary project-based course', 30th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, AAEE2019, Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Brisbane.
  • Lund, C, Pryor, T, Jennings, P et al 2017, 'Sustainable energy education: addressing the needs of students and industry in Australia', Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability, vol. 2, no. 40, pp. 1-7.
  • Jerew, O & Blackmore, K 2014, 'Estimation of hop count in multi-hop wireless sensor networks with arbitrary node density', International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 207-216.
  • Jerew, O, Blackmore, K & Mohammadian, M 2014, 'Number of Paths and Neighbours Effect on Multipath Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks', The 2nd BCS International IT Conference 2014, ed. Professor Hussain Al-Ahmad, BCS Academy eWIC publishing, online, pp. 1-6.
  • Blackmore, K 2014, 'Measures of success: varying intention and participation in MOOCs', Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology, ed. B Hegarty, J McDonald, SK Loke, ASCILITE: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Dunedin New Zealand, pp. 549-553.
  • Quinn, D, Amer, Y, Lonie, A et al. 2012, 'Leading change: Applying change management approaches to engage students in blended learning', Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 16-29.
  • Blackmore, K, Pettigrove, M, Johns-Boast, L et al (2012, August) 'Tales from inside the blender - Five models of collaboration', IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Hong Kong, pp. H3A12-H3A17.
  • Quinn, D, Amer, Y, Lonie, A et al. 2011, 'Leading change: Applying change management approaches to engage students in blended learning', ASCILITE 2011, Changing Demands, Changing Directions, ed. G. Williams, P. Statham, N. Brown & B. Cleland, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Hobart Australia.
  • Timo, R, Blackmore, K & Hanlen, L 2010, 'Word-Valued Sources: An Ergodic Theorem, an AEP, and the Conservation of Entropy', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 3139-3148.
  • Blackmore, K & Kane, L 2010, 'Blended Course Design for Cooperative Delivery - A Case Study', The 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE) 2010 Conference, Engineers Australia, pp 151-155.
  • Jerew, O, Blackmore, K & Liang, W 2012, 'Mobile Base Station and Clustering to Maximize Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks', Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. Volume 2012, no. Article ID 902862, pp. 1-13.
  • Blackmore, K, Compston, P, Thompson, L et al 2010, 'The Engineering Hubs and Spokes Project - Institutional Cooperation in Educational Design and Delivery', Ascilite 2010, Sydney, Australia, pp. 90-94.
  • Jerew, O, Jones, H & Blackmore, K 2009, 'On the Minimum Number of Neighbours for Good Routing Performance in MANETs', IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 573-582.
  • Timo, R, Blackmore, K & Hanlen, L 2007, 'On the Entropy Rate of Word-Valued Sources', Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2007, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, p. 5.
  • Timo, R, Blackmore, K & Hanlen, L 2007, 'Strong Stochastic Stability for MANET Mobility Models', IEEE International Conference on Networks 2007, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, p. 6.
  • Timo, R, Blackmore, K & Papandriopoulos, J 2007, 'Strong Stochastic Stability for Dynamic SourceRouting', Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2007, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 1-5.
  • Xu, S, Blackmore, K & Jones, H 2007, 'An Analysis Framework for Mobility Metrics in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks', EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2007, pp. 19249 1-16.
  • Timo, R, Hanlen, L & Blackmore, K 2006, 'A lower bound on network layer control information', NEWCOM-ACoRN Joint Workshop 2006, ed. Conference Program Committee, European Association for Signal Processing, Vienna Austria, p. 5.
  • Xu, S, Blackmore, K & Jones, H 2005, 'Mobility Assessment for MANETs Requiring Persistent Links', International Workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modelling (WITMEMO 2005), ed. Conference Program Committee, USENIX Association, Berkely CA, pp. 39-43.
  • Blackmore, K 2005, 'The price of mobility in AdHoc networks', Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW 2005), ed. Leif Hanlen and Paul Teal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Australia, p. 1.
  • Timo, R, Blackmore, K & Hanlen, L 2005, 'On Entropy Measures for Dynamic Network Topologies; Limits to MANET', Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW 2005), ed. Leif Hanlen and Paul Teal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Australia, pp. 89-94.
  • Xu, S, Blackmore, K & Jones, H 2005, 'Cache Timeout Strategies for on-Demand Routing in MANETs', International Symposium on Digital Signal Processing and Communication Systems & Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing 2005, ed. Beata J Wysocki, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 153-158.
  • Jones, H, Xu, S & Blackmore, K 2004, 'Link Ratio for Ad Hoc Networks in a Rayleigh Fading Channel', Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP 2004), ed. Beata J Wysocki, Tadeusz A Wysocki, Conference Organising Committee, Australia, pp. 1-10.
  • Blackmore, K, Williamson, R, Mareels, I et al. 1997, 'Online Learning via Congregational Gradient Descent', Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 331-363.
  • Blackmore, K, Williamson, R & Mareels, I 1997, 'Decision Region Approximation by Polynomials or Neural Networks', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 903-907.
  • Blackmore, K, Williamson, R & Mareels, I 1996, 'Local Minima and Attractors at Infinity in Gradient Descent Learning Algorithms', Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1-18.
  • Blackmore, K, Williamson, R & Mareels, I 1996, 'Learning Nonlinearly Parametrized Decision Regions', Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 129-132.