I will be speaking on "
ICT trends in Education" at the Australian Computer Society meeting in Canberra, 12th November 2013.
This will be a less academic version of my "
MOOCs with Books: Syncronisation of Large Scale Asynchronous e-Learning" talk for the ICCSE conference in Colombo.
ACS Canberra Branch Forum
A quiet revolution is taking place in Australia's schools, TAFEs and
universities, with education moving on-line. Award winning education
designer Tom Worthington will provide an overview of the trends and its
implications for education.
- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS)
- Social media for education
- Open Source e-Portfolio software
- Cloud based Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- e-Book textbooks
- Portable course-ware formats
Biography: Tom Worthington FACS CP
Tom
Worthington is an independent ICT consultant and an adjunct lecturer in
computer science at the Australian National University.
Tom designed the on-line sustainability courses for both the ACS
certification program and the ANU Master of IT. In 1999 he was elected a
Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the
development of public Internet policy. Tom is a Past President of the
Australian Computer Society, Fellow, Honorary Life Member and Certified
Computer Professional, as well as a voting member of the Association for
Computing Machinery and a member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers.
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