ascilite 2006 conference podcasts

Coralie McCormack and Mary Jane Taylor from Canberra University discuss assessment and feedback in online learning and teaching in a graphics course. In this course they started with the reality that assessment should drive learning. They studied feedback and how difficult it was to adhere to the principles on feedback. They are using [...]

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Michael Christie of the Centre for Digital Media and Higher Education at
Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is a historian and his background is in multicultural studies and he left Australia and became a migrant in Sweden so he has first hand experience on the challenges of cross cultural learning and teaching. Michael shares about [...]

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Anne Forster, President of ODLAA (Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia), University of Sydney, reflects on the ASCILITE experience for 2006 from her perspective as President of ODLAA, on what in particular she has gained and what she can share with her colleagues. Listen to this podcast and hear Anne’s reflections on our common [...]

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Want to hear all about the benefits of the latest incarnation of audiographic tools? Well you have certainly come to the right podcast! Stephen Rowe discusses his and his co-authors, (Allan Ellis and Tran Quoc Bao) longitudinal case study into the use of audiographics in the Faculty of Business at Southern Cross University.
Stephen talks about [...]

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The Best Research Paper prize winners were announced at the completion of the conference. The paper, “Going with the grain: Mobile devices in practice”, – John Pettit and Agnes Kukulska-Hulme of the Open University in the UK, was nominated by the reviewers as the overall winner.
What makes a great research paper? Have a listen to [...]

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Passion at ASCILITE??? We found it in a controversial and thought-provoking presentation by Lisa Wise and James Quealy from the University of Melbourne. Their presentation focussed on the institutionalised use of learning management systems . . . and how ineffective this is for today’s learning needs. Anyone who has read Stephen Downes or George Seimen’s [...]

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