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Personal Learning Environments Symposium
Personal learning environments: implications and challenges.
Edilson Arenas
Central Queensland University, Melbourne International Campus
Edilson has extensive experience in managing and delivering content using online technologies. His experience has been implemented in areas such as Software Engineering, Networks and Operating Systems. Edilson is currently undertaking a PhD at Deaking University in the field of blended learning in higher education multicultural environments where online technologies are integral to the learning experience.
Self-direction and lifelong learning in the information age: Can PLEs help?
Nona Muldoon
Central Queensland University
Nona is an academic at CQU, with specialiation in instructional design and elearning. Her research interests concern investigating the impacts of learning designs underpinned by the theory of situated cognition and principles of constructive alignment, with particular focus on developing learning models and flexible delivery mechanisms mediated by technologies.
The Australian postgraduate writing network: developing a collaborative learning environment for higher degree students and their supervisors.
Donna Lee Brien & Jen Webb
Central Queensland University & University of Canberra
Professor Jennifer Webb, BA Hons (CQU), PhD (CQU) is Director of Communication Research at the University of Canberra, and teaches creative writing and cultural studies. Her background includes art house and academic publishing, and researching, writing and teaching in communication and culture. Her recent publications include Reading the Visual (Sage, UK, and Allen&Unwin, Sydney, 2004) and the collection of short fiction, Ways of Getting By (Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2006). A new work, Understanding Representation, is currently in production with Sage Publishers, London. She is currently working on two research projects supported by ARC grants – Urban Imaginaries, and Art and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region, as is the editor of TEXT: the journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
Associate Professor Donna Lee Brien, BEd (Deakin), MA (UTS), PhD (QUT), GradCert Higher Ed (UNE), is Head of the School of Arts and Creative Enterprise at Central Queensland University. Widely published in the areas of writing pedagogy and praxis, creative non-fiction and collaborative practice in the arts, Donna has an MA and PhD in Creative Writing. Her biography John Power 1881-1943 (Sydney: MCA, 1991) is the standard work on this expatriate artist and benefactor, and Donna is also the co-author of The Girl’s Guide to Real Estate: How to Enjoy Investing in Property, 2002; and The Girl’s Guide to Work and Life: How to Create the Life you Want, 2004 (both with Dr Tess Brady, Sydney: Allen & Unwin). Founding Editor of dotlit: The Online Journal of Creative Writing (2000-2004) and Assistant Editor of Imago: New Writing (1999-2003), Donna is an Associate Editor of New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (UK) and on the board of readers for Writing Macao. She has been the President of the Australian Association of Writing Programs since 2004.
Building capacity for lifelong learning: using a PLE to support participatory design of the Granitenet virtual community portal
Catherine Arden & Kathryn McLachlan
Catherine is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, specialising in adult and vocational education and training and lifelong learning. Her research interests include the application of transformative, experiential and blended learning methodologies to promote lifelong learning for individuals and support the development of rural communities.
PLEs: framing one future for lifelong learning, e-learning and universities.
David Jones
Central Queensland University
David Jones is the Head of E-Learning and Materails Development at Central Queensland University. His research interests include e-learning, information systems development and adoption, ateleological systems development and the theoretical foundations of information systems. He has published over 40 journal and conference papers within the field of information systems and e-learning and co-authored a book on e-learning.
Learning networks: harnessing the power of online communities for discipline and lifelong learning.
Colin Beer & David Jones
Central Queensland University
