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5.08/20/2025

A master at fostering understanding.

4.05/21/2025

Challenges students to reach their potential.

5.03/31/2025

Makes even hard topics easy to grasp.

4.02/27/2025

A master at fostering understanding.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Greg

Dr. Greg Preston is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he has been an academic since the early 1990s. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Educational Studies, Diploma in Education, and Bachelor of Arts, all from the University of Newcastle. His teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with primary focus on the School of Education's coursework masters programs in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), including courses such as EDUC6018 Information Technologies and Education, EDUC6038 An Introduction to ICT in Education, EDUC6036 Educational Leadership and ICT, EDUC6039 Applications of Computers in Education, EDUC6042 Digitally Supported Learning, and EDUC6101 Web 2.0 and Beyond. As leader of the ICT discipline for the last 20 years, he has taught across nearly all School of Education programs, supervised practicum placements, and guided dozens of research higher degree students to completion while serving as an examiner. Dr. Preston is the longest-serving member of the University Senate, coordinated the University's academic integrity systems for 14 years, and prior to academia worked as a teacher in New South Wales and Europe alongside state and federal positions.