ascilite 2006 conference podcasts

Of course, what many of you may not realise is the strong role ASCILITE have had in the project so far, and how this role will continue, at least over the next few years. While Rob gave us a glimpse of this in our first podcast, here Geraldine LaFoe, Vice-President of ASCILITE, tells us more [...]

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The newest initiative to emerge from the Carrick Institute was discussed this morning in a very interactive session with ASCILITE members. The Resource Information Network Project will use a range of technologies, including Web 2.0, to bring people together who share common interests in teaching and learning – an overarching community that will go beyond [...]

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We were fortunate to have four respected editors share their time and expertise with us. Roger Atkinson, Catherine McLoughlin, Grainne Conole and John Hedberg pointed aspiring researchers-looking-to-be published in the right direction to get published and to gain those all important DEST points, citations, and all the other measurables of success in the academic world. [...]

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How effective is asynchronous conferencing in enabling students to reflect on, elaborate and challenge ideas? Caroline Coffin from the Centre for Language and Communications at the Open University UK, reports on the studies conducted by herself and her colleagues which investigated CMC’s use as a medium for developing students’ argumentation skills. This framework allows researchers [...]

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Online learning has been around for quite some time now, why haven’t we done a whole lot more with it? This was just one of the questions that Rod Sims from Capella University put to the participants at this very thought provoking session called “Reinventing and reinvigorating instructional design: A theory for emergent learning”. Indeed, [...]

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In this podcast, Catherine McLoughlin shares some of the passion and insight that she and Joe Luca shared in their formal presentation on some of the dynamic forms of authentic assessment that are driving learning today. What are Web 1 and Web 2 technologies? What do our students want, how can we, or should we, [...]

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The Open University in the UK, with some 200,000 students, faces particular challenges as it moves towards a new VLE with the implementation of an open source LMS in 2007. Chris Jones and Grainne Conole from the Institute of Education Technology at the OU posed the question, “Who will own the new VLE?” and shared [...]

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In various presentations over the past two days we’ve heard the comment, ‘Why are we so slow in taking up elearning initiatives? We’ve been shouting about their potential for years, yet here we are again, still convincing people that it’s worthwhile!’ Have you heard (or felt) the same thing at ASCILITE 2006?
Diane Salter of Hong [...]

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Learners in our courses are from increasingly diverse backgrounds. Are our online learning environments culturally suited to our learners? What are their learning preferences and how can we design courses that are culturally conducive for learners? Andrea Hall from Sultan Qaboos University considered many models that might prove suitable to provide as a basis for [...]

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It’s been a buzzword throughout the ASCILITE conference – and no, it has nothing to do with what we’re doing here with our podcasting blog!
Whatever you think about it, podcasting seems to have people talking at ASCILITE 2006. Belinda Tynan and Stephen Colbran from the University of New England were certainly the focus of much [...]

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