Peter Higgs
e-Works / Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Australia)
Monday 8 September, remote

Peter manages Learning Technology in TAFE Tasmania supporting teachers and teams to develop and implement educational technology solutions for their teaching & learning. Peter also has been instrumental in TAFE Tasmania providing eLearning Strategies for staff and students through Learnscope and other professional development opportunities.

Peter holds a Dip Teach and Learning (Adult and VET) and a B Ed. from the University of South Australia.

Recently, Peter successfully managed a New Practices Project that designed and developed the QTImPlayer, see http://qti2007.flexiblelearning.net.au/ .  The QTImPlayer enables teachers and assessors working in the field to use Next G to download assessment tools, assess students and then upload the results with attached evidence such as photos, videos, audio and document files to their organisations IT system for recording. In 2008 Peter is managing, TAFE Tasmania, Australian Flexible Learning Framework projects “Emerging Technologies” which includes the QTImPlayer and Camera Glasses, Toolbox LO Rapid Development Tool” and partnering with Dairy Australia in their Industry Integration Project see http://industry.flexiblelearning.net.au/

In this session Peter will outline the TAFE Tasmania experience of teachers having access to a media rich repository of teaching and learning resources as well as assessment items. This allows them to provide engaging and relevant content for their students and industry clients in a very timely way. As well, Peter will introduce you to the QTImPlayer that allows teachers and trainers to assess students in the work place using mobile technology. The QTImPlayer hosts AQTF compliant assessment tools, allows for the uploading of assessment evidence in word documents. jpeg, movie and audio files and then auto zips the results and emails then to the organisations systems.

James Dalziel - Sponsored by Ministry of Education
Macquarie University (Australia)
Tuesday 9 September, remote

James Dalziel is Professor of Learning Technology and Director of the Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. James leads a number of projects including: LAMS (Learning Activity Management System), including roles as a Director of the LAMS Foundation and LAMS International Pty Ltd; MAMS (Meta Access Management System), a national identity and access infrastructure project for the Australian higher education sector; RAMP (Research Activityflow and Middleware Priorities), a project investigating open standards authorisation and e-Research workflows, and ASK-OSS (the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software), a national advisory service on open source issues for the Australia higher education and research sector. Prior to his current roles, James helped lead the COLIS (Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services) project, was a Director of WebMCQ Pty Ltd, an e-learning and assessment company, and was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney.

Recent developments for digital education in Australia: DER, the Australian Access Federation and Learning Design

This presentation provides reflections on some recent development in digital education in Australia in the areas of government policy and implementation, identity management and Learning Design. The new Australian Federal Government is implementing a $1.2B Digital Education Revolution (DER) package that includes provision of computers and broadband for schools, as well as complementary IT infrastructure in areas such as identity and access management, integrated learning environments, portals, repositories, e-portfolios and technical standards. In the area of identity and access management, the Australian Access Federation project is implementing a trust federation in the higher education and research sector for secure sharing of resources, data and services across institutions, and a similar approach has been proposed for the schools sector. In the field of Learning Design, the presentation describes a case study based on LAMS in which teachers and lectures are freely sharing “pedagogical know-how” in the form of digital lesson plans (also called sequences).

Update: LAMS Community, LAMS Foundation, LAMS Demo

Jane Hornibrook & Brian Opie - Sponsored by Ministry of Education
Creative Commons Aotearoa (NZ)
Tuesday 9 September

Jane Hornibrook is a project developer for Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand and is currently completing a Diploma in Publishing at Whitireia Community Polytechnic.

Brian Opie is Executive Director of Te Whainga Aronui The Council for the Humanities and a senior lecturer in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.

Public education, public knowledge

Creative Commons is a method of copyright licensing which starts from the premise that societies depend on the open circulation of knowledge for their survival and betterment. It also recognises the need for content creators to gain proper recognition, including financial reward, for their work. Nowhere is this issue more significant than in education, where new curricula and course content represents very important segment of content creation, especially in a digital environment. By drawing comparisons with the use of CC licences in creative arts contexts, this part of the presentation will demonstrate the value of applying CC licences to NZ tertiary educational content.

Should there be an indigenous Creative Commons licence?

As part of the development of Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand, a commitment has been made to explore the value of designing a CC licence which takes collective ownership of intellectual and cultural property as its focus. This part of the presentation will set out some issues and seek comment from participants in the session.

http://creativecommons.org.nz/

Update: Otago Polytechnics IP policy