ascilite 2006 conference podcasts

Elearning is often seen as synonymous with student-centred learning. But many teachers new to elearning often ask, ‘What’s my role in all of this?’ Jacquie McDonald’s presentation, based on her recently submitted PhD thesis, places the teacher very much in the elearning framework. Whether it be setting roles and responsibilities, facilitating exchanges towards higher order [...]

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Podcaster researchers Anthony Chan and Mark Lee (CSU) together with Catherine McLoughlin (ACU) and a group of their second year students from Charles Sturt University gave a particularly dynamic presentation in which they showcased the findings of a year long project in which a group of second year undergraduate students is placed in charge of [...]

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That is the question that Stephen Sheeley was posing in the opening session of the “Technologies, instructional design and teaching practices section”. This session was standing room only and had participants eagerly involved in exploring this issue.

Why are we focussed on preserving and translating materials to online environments rather than transforming to [...]

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Team building skills are one of those things that everyone wants – our universities prioritise them through graduate attributes and employers almost universally demand them in job advertisements. But how do you teach them – or more importantly, can you teach them?
Joe Luca from Edith Cowan University gave an interesting – and hilarious in parts [...]

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