Innovation and practicality. An interview with Dr Ken Ryba.

Abstract

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 range
of 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 establish
a Master of Educational Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Psychology which leads students toward their registration as psychologists.