ascilite 2006 conference podcasts

Carole Hunter, Lynn Flynn and Janet Bucan are educational designers and learning media coordinators from Charles Sturt University. They joined Allan Carrington a learning designer from the University of Adelaide to become the ASCILITE2006 Podcast Team.
Little did any of them realize what an enriching personal experience the podcasting project would be. At the [...]

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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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Philippa Gerbic Auckland University, and Gail Wilson and Rosemary Thomson, University Western Sydney reflect on the insights gained from this conference. They also discuss the friendships re-visited and the networks formed and how these networks will keep on benefiting them in the future. Listen to the podcast and also hear a constructive suggestion or two [...]

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In their paper, Ron Oliver and Mark McMahon of the School of Communications and Contemporary Arts at Edith Cowan University, presented their findings in a project on ‘The trial of learning objects: Exploring the design and delivery of VTE courses with learning objects’. There is a lot written and talked about in regard to learning [...]

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Are academics that teach English subjects the most techno-phobic on earth? In this session Brett Lucas of the Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre Royal Holloway, University of London, explored the possible reasons for this claim and provided an overview of an innovative project currently being undertaken in English departments in the United Kingdom to [...]

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