Melbourne Graduate School of Education Centre for the Study of Higher Education

e-Evolution: Adventures in e-Research and e-Learning

The Centre for the Study of Higher Education, in partnership with Professor Leon Sterling, Director, eResearch, ran two interactive seminars on eResearch and eLearning in September 2009. All university staff interested in learning about the latest developments in these two areas were invited to attend.

Professor Phil Long, founding Director, Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology, the University of Queensland, delivered a keynote speech on Wednesday September 30.

Day One, Tuesday September 29 - eResearch

 

Time Speaker

Topic
9.00am

Professor Leon Sterling
Director, eResearch

 Setting the Scene: 2009 – an exciting year for eResearch (slides)
9.20am

Professor John O'Callaghan
Director, Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI)

The VLSCI as an eResearch Initiative (slides)
9.50am

Ms Helen Hayes
Director, Knowledge Transfer

 Putting the "e-" into engagement: the role of knowledge transfer in e-learning and e-research (slides)
10.20am Morning Tea
10.45am

Mr Andrew Alexander & Mr Florian Goessmann
Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS)

Australian research collaboration services (slides)
11.15am

Professor Peter Rathjen
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
The University's research strategy (slides)
11.45am

Professor John Furness
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Mouse histopathology: creating a national archive of images and metadata (slides)
12.15pm

Dr Nathan Faggian
Centre for Neuroscience

 Using the Optiportal for collaborative research, focus: streaming applications across sites (slides)
12.45pm Lunch. Exhibitions in foyer area – booth from Victorian eResearch Strategy Initiative (VeRSI) and posters from Donna McRostie and the eScholarship Research Centre
1.30pm Panel Discussion : eResearch futures - skilling the community
2.30pm Program close

 

Day Two, Wednesday September 30 - eLearning

 

Time Speaker Topic
9.00am

Professor Richard James
Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education

 Setting the Scene: eLearning directions
9.15am

Professor Phil Long
Director, Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology, The University of Queensland

 Emerging Technologies for Learning: What's on the Horizon?
10.00am

Ms Diane Squires
Media and Public Relations Manager, Marketing and Communications

 'From the Studio' - using live streaming and pre-packaged footage of University experts
10.30am Morning tea
11.00am

Professor David Williams
Department of Physiology

 Challenges for Personal Response Units in an Integrated Curriculum (slides)
11.30am

Associate Professor Peter Tregloan
School of Chemistry

 e-Learning, i-Learning, ... Exploring the Full Alphabet (slides)
12.00pm

Dr Alan Arnold
Project Leader, Learning Environments, The University of Canberra

 Learning Management Systems - extracting Value from their e-Volution (slides)
12.30pm Lunch
1.15pm

Dr Stephen Marshall
Director (Acting), University Teaching Development Centre, The University of Wellington

 An overview of the eMaturity Model (eMM) project
1.45 Panel discussion
2.45 Program close

 

 

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