I recently attended the E-Learning Summit in Sydney in February and presented on some of our initiatives within the Flexible Learning Institute in relation to designing at the course/degree level as opposed to the single subject level. In my view, to make progress in redesigning curriculum the 'granularity' we choose to focus on needs to [...]
The Student Assessment in Distance Learning and e-Learning Symposium was held in Chiba, Japan and was hosted by the Center of ICT and Distance Education, The Open University of Japan On February 16, 2012. Kumiko Aoki chaired the symposium which included guest speakers from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Korea and Japan. It also included [...]
I have been invited to present at the CODE International Symposium committee an annual international symposium to be held in Chiba, Japan, on Thursday, February 16, 2012. The symposium will be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. The Center of ICT and Distance Education (CODE), the Open University of Japan (http://www.ouj.ac.jp/eng/), is a research center [...]
At the 2011Â ascilite conference in Hobart on the 6th December I was honoured to receive a Life Member Award "in recognition of sustained and outstanding service to ascilite through significant contributions toward the leadership, key directions and core strategic activities of the ascilite community". This was the 10th Life Member Award presented in the 30 [...]
At the 2011 ascilite conference in Hobart I conducted a workshop on the Good Practice Report: Technology-enhanced Learning and Teaching that Gordon Suddaby, Natasha Hard and myself completed for the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. The workshop focussed on three key questions: How do we recognise Good Practice in technologically-enhanced learning and teaching? How do we [...]
