Open AccessInnovation and practicality. An interview with Dr Ken Ryba.
Author(s) -
Jean Annan,
Ken Ruba
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
kairaranga
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-9021
pISSN - 1175-9232
DOI - 10.54322/kairaranga.v9i1.103
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , special education , psychology , library science , pedagogy , medical education , sociology , graduate education , work (physics) , mathematics education , medicine , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering
Ken Ruba came to New Zealand from Canada in 1978 to teach special education courses and to work on his PhD at Massey University. His PhD was in the area of computer assisted instruction and he set up the first course on the subject ever to be offered at a New Zealand university.Over the years he has written scores of articles on special education and computers in education He has also carried put research projects and published extensively on a rangeof subjects in educational psychology and special education. Ken was instrumental in setting up the Master of Education (Special Education) degree at Massey University Following this he spent two years at the University of Waikato in the School of Education developing a new Master of Special Education degree With the establishment of the new Massey University Albany Campus he was reappointed by Massey University and subsequently took the initiative to establisha Master of Educational Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Psychology which leads students toward their registration as psychologists.