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Universities and learning
Measuring the value-added by Australian Universities.
Hamish Coates
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Dr Hamish Coates was appointed in February 2006 to lead ACER's research on higher education. His track record includes a large number of projects which have influenced educational research, policy and practice.
Dr Coates joined ACER from his position of Senior Research Officer at Graduate Careers Australia (GCA). At GCA, he designed, managed and conducted a major national project to enhance Australia's annual graduate census - the most complex and significant survey in Australian higher education.
Prior to joining GCA, Dr Coates worked for five years as a Research Fellow on numerous projects at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) and the Assessment Research Centre (ARC) at the University of Melbourne.
Strategic organizational direction setting: a workplace learning opportunity.
Mary M. Somerville & Gordon Yusko
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library; San José State University Library
Mary M. Somerville serves as Associate Dean for the San José State University Library and Gordon Yusko serves as Division Manager for the City of San José Public Library. In these roles, they foster seamlessly integrated information resources and oversee shared library facilities in a joint city-university library organization which supports lifelong learning among diverse San José populations. Toward that end, they lead organizational processes which purposefully enable workplace learning to improve user experiences.
Twenty one years of later life learning: reflecting back, focussing forward.
Lesley Hart
University of Strathclyde
Lesley Hart has worked in the field of lifelong learning in Scotland for 25 years and her career has involved working with many different types of non traditional university students. In 1987 she introduced a new learning programme at the University of Strathclyde aimed at older adults and its success led to the establishment of Scotland’s first Senior Studies Institute in 1991. She was appointed Director of Lifelong Learning in 2002.
Lifelong learning and wiki: assessing communication skills for an emerging paradigm.
Brendan Murphy
Central Queensland University
Brendan Murphy has taught in a wide range of discipline areas at tertiary level. Since 1999 he has been employed in the Multimedia and Digital Innovation programs at CQU. Brendan's areas of research interest include design in gaming and the use of gaming consoles in education. His presentation is based on his development of the course Communication in the Digital Age, which requires students to collaborate online at a class-wide and small group level.
Online learning, multimedia & future directions
Only Connect: communities of practice and university students-librarian as conduit.
Jess Tyndall
Gus Fraenkel Medical Library Flinders University of South Australia
Jess is the Liaison librarian for the School of Medicine, Flinders University, in South Australia. She gives lectures, runs workshops, small group and individual sessions in research areas and in literature searching, in EBP and in identifying and accessing grey literature.
Teacher trainees’ readiness to use multimedia in the classroom.
Hasniza Nordin & Rosna Awang Hashim
Universiti Utara Malaysia
Currrently working at Northern University of Malaysia, Malaysia as a lecturer. I have been teaching for five years since 2003. Previous experiences with Radicare (M) SDdn Bhd as an Internal Auditor (Information System) and Agilent Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd as a Webmaster. Graduated from Monash University, Australia in MEd (ICTE).
Postdoctoral and early career research work as continued education.
Serene H-J Choi, Timo A. Nieminen & Catherine Manathunga
University of Queensland
Serene Choi is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Physical Sciences at The University of Queensland, and working on an international higher education research project.
Information and education technology: a playful investigation of possible futures.
Melanie Lazarow
University of Melbourne
Melanie has been working in libraries ever since she finished her first degree in psychology and industrial sociology in South Africa Having completed her Dip Lib in Canberra she ventured to Tamworth as a cataloguer, then to public libraries in Sydeny. For the last 20 years she has stayed ensconced in higher education asking the questions of how we can better meld education and libries,for the benefit of positive change, This past year Melanie has worked with the LMS and educational software as a senior consultant . She has now in charge of the Architecture Building and Planning Library at the University of Melbourne.
