Brian Pauling

Position

Principal Academic Staff Member
The New Zealand Broadcasting School

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 940 7546
Mobile: +64 27 540 8264
Fax: +64 3 940 8701
Email: paulingb@clear.net.nz
Or: paulingb@cpit.ac.nz

Postal Address

New Zealand Broadcasting School
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
P.O. Box 540
Christchurch 8031
New Zealand.

Profile

Brian began the broadcasting programme at Christchurch Polytechnic in 1983 and was the first Head of New Zealand Broadcasting School.
Brian has a background in broadcasting, publishing and adult education. He has a particular interest in the educational theories of cabability learning, cooperative education, immersion learning and independent learning, all of which inform the BBc degree and the teaching practices of the School. He has written extensively in these areas.
His current research includes the impact of converging technologies (television, telecommunications and computers) on the delivery of teaching and learning, digital broadcasting, public broadcasting, access and community broadcasting.
He is a media consultant for a number of regional and national organisations.

Recent Presentations
• The Long Tail – Fact or Fantasy for Broadcasting: paper presented at the Broadcast Education Association Convention, Las Vega, 19 April, 2008

•  The enclosing of public space, Paper presented to the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), September 12, 2007, Rotorua (online at http://www.liac.org.nz/)

Recent Publications
• The Future of Distance Education: reformed, scrapped or recycled. In Cleveland-Innes, M & Garrison, R (2009) An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era London: Routledge

• The Digital Future and Public Broadcasting, A research report prepared for NZ On Air, November, 2008. Wellington