ascilite 2006 conference podcasts

Do academics need to be visionaries to keep pace in the current learning environment? Margaret Maag is continually looking to challenge the traditional landscape of higher education in order to facilitate and enhance students’ learning. What are the challenges along the way in using mobile learning applications, such as educational podcasts? Does this popular [...]

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Just what happens when you explore the intersections of spatiality, identity and online learning? Reem Al-Mahmood explores “spatial imaginings” to answer the question “what are people actually doing in learning environments?” Issues of learner identities and learning practices in relation to pedagogical, physical and online spaces/places were discussed with reference to three vignette’s that [...]

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In response to the presentation entitled “ICT strategies and organisational change” in his questions, one of the delegates, Stephen Bright, appeared to feel strongly about the responsibility and the role of the champions of e-learning and adoptors of technology in the new VLE when he asked the question; “Do the champions of e-learning get any [...]

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Allan Ellis and Stephen Rowe Southern Cross University talk with Allan Carrington about the roll out of real time elearning using Elluminate Live at their institution. They talked about some challenging things like

An Australian Elluminate “Elluminati” – a community of practice
Audiographic Conferencing history at Southern Cross
The importance is how to use it – the pedagogy
Need [...]

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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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Day one keynote one and what a keynote. Mike Spector of the Learning Systems Institute of Florida State University began ASCILITE 2006 discussing the reality check the USA has had with the good news of 3% in 1994 has jumped to 94% in 2005 for the take up of technology in schools, but with the [...]

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