Ali is an AI Practitioner-Researcher who started her career with an ICT, Mathematics, Chemistry and Science major.
She has taught ESL English in Sydney and China and spent most of her teaching career in secondary schools as the Head of Science in three different schools and as a VCE Chemistry and VCE and Selective Entry Advanced Learning (SEAL) Mathematics teacher.
Ali has worked as a Teacher mentor and lecturer in initial Teacher and post graduate Teacher courses from 2007 when she started as a senior Chemistry curriculum lecturer at Deakin University where she completed her Master of Educational Leadership research degree and networked with academics she now works with at Victoria University.
Ali is a unit convenor of four Teaching Mathematics units in the Master of Teaching programs at Victoria University.
She has developed the world’s first AI pedagogy named the AI insect and is currently finalising a research paper on this. Ali’s research interests in AI, Chemistry and Mathematics are related to her long term goal to make a practical real difference to improving the mobility of the elderly and enhancing neuroplasticity of the ageing and she believes she can motivate outstanding educational outcomes and pathways through her teaching of AI technology, Chemistry and Mathematics to help us achieve this endpoint for us all to live longer, healthier, more fulfilled lives.
Ali is an active research member in the Equality in Research team, Women in IT committee and is the Chief Emergency Warden at VU Footscray Park.
Ali’s past research has included mixed methods research into the effectiveness of PBL pedagogy in mathematics classrooms, case study research into the roles of mathematics and science in interdisciplinary STEM settings and currently How democratic STEM classroom settings can guide students’ engagement in and understanding of AI. Ali presented her research at HERDSA in Brisbane in July in 2023 and will present her AI pedagogy at Valencia University in March 2024.
Ali initiated and manages the AI Our Way secondary girls program and mixed Advanced mathematics AI school program that runs through the VU Cyber Security and Training Operations Centre (CSOC) at Victoria University, St. Albans. Ali is currently working towards developing a VU University VCE Extension study in AI for VCE students to complete as part of their VCE, achieving a uni study credit point simultaneously. Ali has written a number of teacher resource books in Chemistry, Biology and Science through TSSM and Kilbaha Publishing.
Most recently, Ali wrote a chapter for the Doing Doctoral Research – Narratives of Practice book which will be published by Brill Sense in December 2023.
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.
Alison McGregor is a Numeracy-focused Teaching Academic, Unit Chair and Lecturer within Master of Teaching, Bachelor of Education and Early Childhood Education courses in Teaching Mathematics, Science and STEM.
Alison is an advocate for Equality and Inclusion of Gender & Diversity in Research and the Women In IT (WIIT) action groups. She is the Chief Emergency Warden at Victoria University.
Alison is a Doctoral Researcher in the most appropriate strategies to Teach AI and Co-Secretary of the ISILC HDR Conference Committee at The Institute of Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (ISILC).
Alison has taught AI, Chemistry, Mathematics, Science and Literacy in a range of primary, secondary, and tertiary settings in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia and in Fuzhou, P.R. China.
McGregor, A. (2011). What about the vulnerable in Afghanistan? Q & A, Channel ABC.
