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Abha Chitalia

Senior Lecturer / Academic Advisor
Te Puna Ako
Location: Building 110, Room L1

Profile

I enjoy working with teachers in developing courses with an all-inclusive approach towards providing students with the wide array of skills necessary to succeed in life, and a rich environment that brings culturally diverse approach to classroom interaction. I am a liaison for Computer Science Pathway. 

Publications

Barmada, B., Chitalia, A., & Kabbar, E. (2024). Assessment Process in the Light of GenAI: Prohibiting Vs Endorsing. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), Bengaluru, India.

Barmada, B., Ramirez-Prado, G., & Chitalia, A. (2024). A Collaborative Framework to Equip Graduates with Skills Needed by Industry: A Cybersecurity Case Study. EDULEARN24, 16th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies.

Barmada, B., Chitalia, A., Dacey, S., Lovell, G., & Song, L. (2023). Can an Online Environment Replace On-Campus Project-Based Computing Assessment? 16th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation.

Chitalia, A., Dacey, S., Lovell, G., Song, L., & Barmada, B. (2023). Embedding Mtauranga Mori in a Computing Courses: A Case Study. Marie Shanon, CRITNZ 2023 Proceedings.

Chitalia, A., & Ayling, D. (2023). Teacher Capability Development at Unitec-Te Pkenga: A Case Study. Marie Shanon, CRITNZ 2023 Proceedings.

Song, L., Lovell, G., Chitalia, A., & Barmada, B. (2022). The Impacts of Cloud Computing on Teaching and Learning: Case study analysis. 2022 MIT/Unitec Te Pūkenga Research Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand.

Fihaki, L.I., & Chitalia, A. (2022). Developing a staff capability digital credential course with a Pacific focus. 2022 MIT/Unitec Te Pūkenga Research Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand.

Chitalia, A., Barmada, B., & Ramirez-Prado, G. (2022). Academics-Industry Collaboration in Programme Development and Delivery: A Case Study Analysis. Computing and Information Technology Research and Education New Zealand.

Song, L., Lovell, G., Dacey, S., & Chitalia, A. (2021). Spatio-temporal feature extraction used for detection of water pollution in New Zealand rivers. MIT - Unitec Research Symposium 2021, Auckland, New Zealand.

Chitalia, A., Lovell, G., Song, L., & Dacey, S. (2021). Teaching a Computing Programme using two Different Delivery Modes - Staff Perspectives from a New Zealand Polytechnic. MIT - Unitec Research Symposium 2021, Auckland, New Zealand.

Ranganathan, S K., Chitalia, A., & Malhotra, M. (2021). Embedding Soft Skills through a Māori Framework in a Business Course. MIT - Unitec Research Symposium 2021, Auckland, New Zealand.

Chitalia, A., & Malhotra, M. (2020). Assessment Delivery in the Covid-19 Lockdown - Staff Perspectives from a New Zealand Polytechnic. Unitec Research Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand.