Australian higher education in the workplace

The Australian Collaborative Education Network will hold its 2010 NATIONAL CONFERENCE at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, 29 September 2010. The Call for Abstracts closes 31 March 2010 and registrations are now open.

Australian Collaborative Education Network Inc.
2010 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
29 Sept – 1 Oct 2010
Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Western Australia
www.acen.edu.au

Conference Update #2

ABSTRACTS CLOSING 31 March 2010

PUBLISHING CONFERENCE PAPERS

Selected ‘best papers’ from the conference will be invited to be refined and resubmitted as proposed publications for the following book and journals

• An edited monograph to be published by ACEN Inc.
• Special Issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
• Special Issue of the Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability.

ANOTHER KEY NOTE SPEAKER CONFIRMED
In addition to the previously announced high profile speakers (Professor Mantz Yorke and Ms Mary Hicks) we are please to advise that we now have a third keynote speaker

• Mr Peter Tyree
  President, Business /Higher Education Round Table
  Former Chairman of the Tyree Group of Companies

Peter is the former Chairman of the Tyree Group of Companies, one of the largest non public companies in Australia. As an Electrical Engineer he has attained a diverse knowledge in the areas of energy, waste water treatment facilities, and electrical conductors. Peter’s “give to society” attitude has seen him work in charitable and industry bodies as well as keeping long term relationships with several universities. In his relationships with universities, his involvement has been as a member of a number of “visiting” Committees, School and Faculty Advisory Boards and Foundations, particularly the University of Wollongong, University of Sydney and the University of NSW, each of which has given Peter deep insights into how important the Business/Higher Education relationships are. Peter took on the role of President, Business/Higher Education Round Table in February 2010.

PRE CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM
Monday 27 September 2010 - 1.00pm Venue: Murdoch University
WIL Research and Scholarship Symposium (Open to active researchers).

If you are interested in research or scholarship in Work Integrated Learning, here is an opportunity for you to get involved in an exciting national event to explore WIL research and create research/scholarship partnerships and initiatives. This Roundtable kicks off a national WIL conference at Curtin University and will bring together renowned international researchers with Australia’s best WIL scholars and you have an opportunity to be an active participant. The Roundtable will identify research priorities for WIL in Australia, forge research partnerships and develop collaborative, cross-institutional research initiatives.
If you are an active researcher and would like to contribute please contact Rick Cummings (R.Cummings@murdoch.edu.au)
Cost: Nil

PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Attend two workshops and get a 30% discount off the second (Symposium not included)

Workshop 1 Tuesday 28 September 2010 - 9.00am to 12noon
Venue: Curtin University of Technology
The WIL Process: Setting up effective WIL programs
Presenter: A/Prof Jan Orrell ...

Workshop 2 Tuesday 28 September 2010 - 1.00pm to 4pm
Venue: Curtin University of Technology
The Work of WIL: The fine balance of managing WIL workload: employer relations; and student expectations
Presenters: Carol-joy Patrick and Merrelyn Bates ...

Workshop 3 Tuesday 28 September 2010 - 1.00 pm to 4pm
Venue: Curtin University of Technology
Understanding and researching WIL: a workshop for new WIL researchers
Presenters: Dr Franziska Trede and A/Prof Maree Simpson ...
From: Call for Abstracts, ACEN, 2010.

Internet Learning Future

Matthew Allen from Curtin University of Technology will be giving two free talks at ADFA in Canberra, 17th July, 2009. The morning seminar is for those with online teaching experience and the afternoon for those with an online learning design focus:

Innovative education online: Ideas for the future of learning and the Internet
An Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Workshop with Associate Professor Matthew Allen, 2009 ALTC Teaching Fellow, Head, Department of Internet Studies, Curtin University of Technology (http://www.netcrit.net)
Venue: LT 12, Lecture Theatre North (Building 32), UNSW@ADFA, Northcott Drive, Canberra
Map: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/images/adfamap.pdf
Date/Time: 0930 – 1230 Friday 17th July, 2009 (a light lunch will be provided at 1230)

Workshop Description:
Web 2.0 technologies provide significant opportunities to create novel approaches for student learning that go well beyond the dull, artificial world of Blackboard, WebCT and other learning management systems. Web 2.0 connects student learning to the realities of online knowledge networks, content creation and create opportunities for innovative and authentic assessment.

This workshop will provide the chance for you to explore what’s possible, contribute from your own experience, and collectively build a vision for new, effective approaches to online learning. Focusing on the link between these technologies, and pedagogic principles, the workshop will help you discover what is possible, consider how it challenges our ideas about learning, and develop new approaches for your own teaching practice. You will be provided with a framework of ideas, focused discussion
opportunities, and examples from the current research work of the presenter on online learning.

The presenter, Associate Professor Matthew Allen, is a nationally recognised university educator, having received an Australian Award for University Teaching in 2000 and more recently being awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Teaching Fellowship. This workshop forms part of his fellowship project, Learning in Networks of Knowledge (http://altc-link.wikidot.com/).

Objectives:
Through the exchange of ideas, the participants will learn about how to engage students directly with the public, ‘real-world’ Internet, through online knowledge production and their membership of knowledge networks which exist through the Internet. They will have contributed and gained a better understanding of both the potential benefits of this approach, and also some of its challenges (such as management, copyright, assessment, equity and so on).as well as the broader challenges. They will emerge with specific technologies, practices and activities that they can apply to their own teaching.

Pre-requisites:
Participants should be people who have already some familiarity with using online learning techniques in their teaching beyond the level of simply placing materials online in a learning management system. Participants will be expected to share and discuss their current ideas with other workshop members.

To Register:
The workshop will be limited to 28 participants, so please let us
know if you intend to join us.

Contact: Ms. Rachel Hunter, Educational Technology Services, UNSW@ADFA
Email: r.hunter(a)adfa.edu.au
Telephone: 02 6268 8499

Exploring online learning via Web 2.0 and a knowledge networking approach
An Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Workshop with Associate Professor Matthew Allen, 2009 ALTC Teaching Fellow, Head, Department of Internet Studies, Curtin University of Technology (http://www.netcrit.net)
Venue: LT12,Lecture Theatre North (Building32) UNSW@ADFA, Northcott Drive Canberra
Map: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/images/adfamap.pdf
Date/Time: 1400 – 1530 (afternoon tea at 1530) Friday 17th July, 2009

Seminar Description:
The 90-minute seminar / discussion is aimed at developers and designers who are active in developing innovative approaches to the use of the internet as a teaching environment. It will canvass broader issues arising from Matthew’s ALTC project.

Learning in Networks of Knowledge (LINK) (see below). The session will consist of a presentation by Matthew of a draft paper on the underpinning questions and issues, the current research program, and will then allow extended discussion and debate about possibilities and problems with web 2.0 – based online learning.

The Learning in Networks of Knowledge (LINK) Project will develop, trial and assess new methods of learning via the Internet.

It assists the re-invigoration of university-level online learning by updating techniques and underlying pedagogic approaches to take account of the changing nature of the Internet in society today. Founded in experience gained over several years with existing online learning approaches, LINK aims to help Australian universities adjust to the new possibilities for Internet education in the late 2000s. LINK involves a sophisticated trialling of new ideas about learning via the Internet, using the most recent forms of online knowledge activity. Its primary outcomes will be broadly applicable pedagogic methods, confirmed and corrected on the basis of the trial, and expressed as examples and guidance material for other academics across the university sector.

The presenter, Associate Professor Matthew Allen, is a nationally recognised university educator, having received an Australian Award for University Teaching in 2000 and more recently being awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Teaching Fellowship. This workshop forms part of his fellowship project, Learning in Networks of Knowledge (http://altc-link.wikidot.com/).

Pre-requisites
Participants should be familiar with and involved in the design of nnovation in online or computer-based learning; the session
will particularly suit those wishing to engage with conceptual underpinning that might guide our fusion of Internet and pedagogy.

To Register
The workshop will be limited to 28 participants, so please let us know if you intend to join us.

Contact: Ms. Rachel Hunter, Educational Technology Services, UNSW@ADFA
Email: r.hunter(a)adfa.edu.au
Telephone: 02 6268 8499