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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

Mehr, F. R., & Chitalia, A. (2025, December). GenAI-Assisted vs. Teacher-Guided Assignments: A Comparative Case Study [Paper presentation]. ITP Rangahau & Research Symposium 2025, Virtual.

Barmada, B., Chitalia, A., & Kabbar, E. (2025). Industry Internships: Benefits, Challenges and Applied Models. EDULEARN25, 17th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (pp. 4071-4077). https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2025.1058

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 (pp. 3530-3538). https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2024

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 (pp. 1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE62452.2024.10834386

Chitalia, A., Dacey, S., Barmada, B., & Andrews, R. (2024). Embedding Mātauranga Māori in Computing Courses: A Follow-Up Case Study. 15th Annual Conference of Computing and Information Technology Research and Education New Zealand (pp. 1-4).

Robertson, C., Vellore Ranganathan, S.K., & Chitalia, A. (2023, November). Benefits of Authentic Learning Through Industry Engagement: A Case Study [Paper presentation]. Te Puna Aurei LearnFest, Virtual conference.

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 (pp. 1743-1747). 10.21125/iceri.2023.0516

Chitalia, A., Dacey, S., Lovell, G., Song, L., & Barmada, B. (2023). Embedding Mātauranga Māori in a Computing Courses: A Case Study. In Marie Shanon (Ed.), CRITNZ 2023 Proceedings (pp. 91-97). https://doi.org/10.34074/proc.2401

Chitalia, A., & Ayling, D. (2023). Teacher Capability Development at Unitec-Te Pūkenga: A Case Study. In Marie Shanon (Ed.), CRITNZ 2023 Proceedings (pp. 104-114). https://doi.org/10.34074/proc.2401

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

Song, L., Lovell, G., Chitalia, A., & Barmada, B. (2022, December). The Impacts of Cloud Computing on Teaching and Learning: Case study analysis [Paper presentation]. 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 (pp. 1-12).

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

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

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

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