Monday 16th June

11:00 AM

1:30 PM

Workshop registrations

Palms Reception Desk

11:00 AM

5:00 PM

Full conference registrations

Palms Reception Desk

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

Light lunch (workshop participants only)

Lawns outside Palms Convention Centre

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Concurrent workshops

Details below

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

Afternoon tea (workshop participants only)

Palms Convention Centre – Foyer

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

Workshops (continued)

Details below

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

Happy hour at the Ripples Bar - Dress: smart, casual

7:00 PM

onwards

Buffet dinner at Lagoon Restaurant - Dress: smart, casual

Workshops

1:30pm
to
4:30pm

Tuesday 17th June

6:30am -

Full buffet breakfast in the Billabong Café

8:00am - 8:30am

Registration & tea/coffee for day delegates at the Palms Reception Desk

8:30am - 9:00am

Ceremony to welcome delegates

Welcome by the traditional owners of the land: Associate Professor William Oates

Welcome by the Vice-Chancellor CQU Professor John Rickard

9:00am - 10:00am

Opening keynote paper: Associate Professor Patrick Danaher

Telling tales: metanarratives, counternarratives and other stories in lifelong learning successes and futures

Presentation of scholarship to Mina Dadehbeigi
Presentation of Best Paper Award

Chair: Professor John Rickard

10:00am - 10:30am

Morning Tea

Stream 1

Stream 2

Stream 3

Stream 4

Learners and learning

Chair: Karin Simon

Student journeys

Chair: Graham Black

Personal learning environments symposium

Chair: David Jones

Lifelong learning

Chair: Debbie Orr

10:30am - 11:00am

Discussion session

Critical spirit as an identity discourse: How might it be useful?

Chair: Mark Tyler

Kristy Richardson & Geraldine Neal

With a little help from my friends: student journeys and women research higher degree students

Professor John Rickard

Launch of CQU PLE project

Edilson Arenas

Personal learning environments: implications and challenges

Donna Lee Brien & Jen Webb

The Australian postgraduate writing network: developing a collaborative learning environment for higher degree students and their supervisors

Catherine Arden & Kathryn McLachlan

Building capacity for lifelong learning: using a PLE to support participatory design of the Granitenet virtual community portal

Nona Muldoon

Self-direction and lifelong learning in the information age: can PLEs help?

Gun Berglund

Reframing future lifelong learning discourses

11:05am - 11:35am

Peter Jansen & Don Adams

Flexible learning and electronics trades training: a case study

Belinda Nicolson-Guest

The international L2 postgraduate experience of the academic essay: a learning journey

Barry Golding

Learning by men not in work: a review of research

11:40am - 12:10pm

Robyn Donovan, John Dekkers & Jo Keleher

A framework to assist women returning to study

David Hamilton, Leone Hinton & David Qian

International students: does attendance and involvement correlate with assessment performance?

Jacqueline McManus

Conditions for lifelong learning

12:15pm - 12:45pm

Hilary Hughes

Incidents for reflection in research

Violeta Todorovic, Phillipa Sturgess & Geoff Danaher

Stepping off into the unknown: framing external futures for a successful preparatory program

Catherine Down

Understanding the role of context in lifelong learning

12:45pm - 1:35pm

Lunch

ANZIIL conversation

Chair: Debbie Orr & Cecily Martina

Reflective practice

Chair: Robyn Donovan

Personal learning environments symposium (continued)

Chair: David Jones

Older learners

Chair: Leone Hinton

1:35pm - 2:05pm

Contributors: 
Sue Collins, Alex Radloff, Hilary Hughes & Graham Black

Information Literacy outcomes: framing futures for success in learning, teaching, researching and career paths

Discussion session

Discourses, stories and themes in lifelong learning practice and research

Chair: Patrick Danaher

Colin Beer & David Jones

Learning networks: harnessing the power of online communities for discipline and lifelong learning

David Jones

PLEs: framing one future for lifelong learning, e-learning and universities

Discussion session

Chair: David Jones

James H. Cook

Universities and senior lifelong learners: quo vadis?

2:10pm - 2:40pm

Lynn McAllister, Gillian Hallam & Wendy Harper

The eportfolio as a tool for lifelong learning: contextualising Australian practice

Brian Findsen & Sarah McCullough

Learning later in policy, learning later in life reflection on life as an older, working class student in formal education in Scotland

2:45pm - 3:15pm

Anne Power

Community service learning and reflection: insights from two case studies

Geoff Danaher, Phyllida Coombes & Patrick Danaher

Lifelong learning, work, retirement and inalienable interconnectivity: reflecting on personal success and framing collective futures

3:15pm - 3:45pm

Afternoon Tea

3:45pm - 4:45pm

Keynote paper: Dr Hamish Coates
Emerging trends in evidence-based quality enhancement 

Chair: Professor Alex Radloff

TBA

Dinner & Trivia night - Anniversary House - Dress: smart, casual

Wednesday 18th June

6:30am-

Full buffet breakfast in the Billabong Café

8:30am - 8:45

Welcome

8:45am - 9:45am

Keynote paper: Dr Lana Jackman
National forum on information literacy: advocacy in action 

Chair: Barbara de la Harpe

9:45am - 10:15am

Morning Tea

Stream 1

Stream 2

Stream 3

Stream 4

Universities and learning

Chair: Jenny Anastasi

Learning communities for framing lifelong learning futures symposium

Chair: Mark Tyler, Catherine Arden & Patrick Danaher

Information literacy symposium

Chair: Helen Partridge

Online Learning,  multimedia and future directions

 Chair: Sharon Harvey

10:15am - 10:45am

Hamish Coates

Measuring the value-added by Australian Universities

Catherine Arden, Trevor Cooper, Kathryn McLachlan & Sheila Stebbins

A learning community two years on: reflecting on successes and framing futures

Geoff Danaher

Look what the tide brought in: the tensions and opportunities within seachange learning communities

Dolene Rossi

Online learning communities: adopting a learner centred perspective to frame lifelong learning futures

Michael Sankey & Jill Lawrence

I’m not alone: first year course leaders helped through communities of practice

Hilary Timma

Living and learning: communities of practice re-engaging young mothers through vocational education

Introduction by Christine Bruce

Jim Berryman

The graduate information literacy program at the Australian National University and services to higher degree research students: recognition and challenges

Sheila Webber & Bill Johnston

Fostering lifelong learning through information literacy education

Ilze Jonikis, Jennifer Golding & Michelle Mahoney

A bunch of IRISs: teaching of information literacy skills for lifelong learning

Madeline Shanahan & Wendy Forrest

Information literacy: past success and future needs for undergraduate health practitioners

Audience reaction

Jess Tyndall

Only Connect: communities of practice and university students-librarian as conduit

10:50am - 11:20am

Mary M. Somerville & Gordon Yusko

Strategic organizational direction setting: a workplace learning opportunity

Hasniza Nordin & Rosna Awang Hashim

Teacher trainees’ readiness to use multimedia in the classroom

11:25am - 11:55am

Lesley Hart

Twenty one years of later life learning: reflecting back, focussing forward 

Serene H-J Choi, Timo A. Nieminen & Catherine Manathunga

Postdoctoral and early career research work for further learning and independence

12:00pm - 12:30pm

Brendan Murphy

Lifelong learning and wiki: assessing communication skills for an emerging paradigm 

Melanie Lazarow

Information and education technology: a playful investigation of possible futures using NVivo and the LMS as focus points

12:30pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

English language learners

Chair: James Cook

Learning communities for framing lifelong learning futures symposium (continued)

Chair: Mark Tyler, Catherine Arden & Patrick Danaher

Information literacy symposium (continued)

Chair: Helen Partridge

Learners and learning

Chair: Graham Black

1:15pm - 1:45pm

1:50pm - 2:20pm

2:25pm - 2:55pm

2:55pm-3:20pm

3:20pm - 3:50pm

3:55pm - 4:25pm

4:30pm - 5:00pm

TBA

Thursday 19th June

6:30am-

Full buffet breakfast in the Billabong Café

8:45am

Welcome

9:00am - 10:00am

Keynote paper: Emeritus Professor Fred Lockwood

Meeting the challenge: increasing access, exploiting the use of C&IT and enhancing the quality of learning and teaching 

Chair: Professor Angela Delves

10:00am - 10:30am

Morning Tea

Stream 1

Stream 2

Stream 3

Stream 4

Workplace learning

Chair: Sam Rannard

Universities and learning

Chair: Leone Hinton

International learners

Chair: Ian Johnson

Learners and learning networks

Chair: Hilary Hughes

10:30am - 11:00am

Anne Callahan & Zaana Howard

Planning for success: reprioritising, repurposing and retooling with results

Michael Sankey & Rod St Hill

Ethical consideration in providing distance education in the light of massification 

Workshop: Ian Johnson

Practical teaching strategies: accommodating the needs of international students in university classrooms

Henk Huijser

Exploring the educational potential of social networking sites: the fine line between exploiting opportunities and unwelcome imposition

11:05am - 11:35am

Fiona Foxall & Megan Tanner

Work based learning: quantifying enhancements to healthcare practice

Vicki Pascoe

“Is this that warm fuzzy stuff?” Successfully engaging first year multimedia students in group processes

Alison Owens & Jillian Litster

‘In my country we didn’t …’ : international student reflections on changes in learning in a foundation course at an Australian university

11:40am - 12:10pm

Cathrine Filstad

Getting access to colleagues in learning – the notion of informal learning

Ahmed Elgezawy & Patrick Keleher

Preparing professionals for the demands of intellectual quality and connectedness in engineering education

Dolene Rossi

Reflecting on research practice: a retrospective means of framing future learning

12:15pm - 12:45pm

Sandra Walker

Factors that influence the education choices of medical / surgical registered nurses with more than 20 years clinical experience 

Kathryn Hegarty

Sustaining learning, learning to sustain: educating to envisage sustainable futures 

Serene H-J Choi, TImo A. Nieminen & Catherine Manathunga

“What brought you here?” International postgraduate students’ perspectives

George Payne

Case study: creating winners for life: a consortium between CSA (Cricket South Africa) and UNISA to promote lifelong learning 

12:45pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

Lifelong learning journeys

Chair: Jillian Litster

Learners and learning networks

Chair: Hilary Hughes

Knowledge management

Chair: Vicki Roberts

Workplace learning

Chair: Jenny Doak

1:30pm - 2:00pm

Geoff Danaher, Beverley Moriarty & Patrick Danaher

Lifelong learning, journeys on the move: reflecting on successes and framing futures for Australian show people 

Teresa Moore & Robert Westlake

Adapt and overcome: everyday learning in the ADF 

Jennifer Anastasi

The precarious position of nursing education in the knowledge economy: a literature review and commentary

Tengku-Faekah Tengku-Ariffin, Rosna Awang-Hashim & Khulida Kirana Yahya

Factors influencing workplace learning among school teachers 

2:05pm - 2:35pm

Jay Somasundaram & Patrick Danaher

Knowledge management and lifelong learning: reflecting on successes and framing futures 

2:35pm - 3:00pm

Closing ceremony

Mark Tyler, Catherine Arden & Patrick Danaher