Future of Education at ANU

Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington will speak on the future of education at the Australian National University in Canberra, 24 June 2013 in a presentation entitled ‘Navigating the Edge of the World’.

Marnie Hughes-Warrington presenting at ANU IT Forum June 24
28 May, 2013 By Hayley Calderwood
Marnie Hughes-Warrington Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) will present her keynote presentation from the THETA conference held in April, ‘Navigating the Edge of the World’ at the upcoming ANU IT Forum. Refreshments will be served. All ANU staff are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to communications.its@anu.edu.au

The forum will be held on Monday 24 June 2013, from 3–4.00pm in the Innovations Lecture Theatre, Building 124.

The history of education is punctuated by disruptive changes, and some people have even argued that it is the point of education to be disruptive. Drawing on her background in world history and her role as the head of ANU Online—a technology supported initiative that takes a new lens to programs, people and possible futures—Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington will explore what it means for staff and students to navigate the edge of the world, including the critical role of relationships in education, and whether current trends in education are radically different to the past.


Website: http://itservices.anu.edu...forum/index.php

Early Career Academics and e-Learning at ANU

Greetings from the Commonwealth Solar Observatory at Mount Stromlo in Canberra. I am taking part in Early Career Academic Retreat for the, with new staff from the Australian National University (ANU). Day one was on research and  today on teaching. I talked to the group tomorrow about "Learning to Teach Using e-Learning for Early Career Academics". This afternoon the ECAs are discussing eduction policy with Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic).

One issue which came up in the morning discussion the ANU  plan for the used of e-learning. The ANU by 2020: Education Portfolio Operational Plan has a section on "Online education" (page 12). This states "Online education will be focused on graduate coursework", with 5 online masters programs offered by 2014 and 20 by 2017. Also 5 double online masters will be offered by 2014.

In addition ANU joined the edX  Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) consortium and is working on two courses for 2014, in Astrophysics and Engaging India.

Australian National University Going Mobile

Greetings from MoodlePosium 2012 at the the University of Canberra where about 200 educators from the tertiary sector are looking at e-learning. The theme of this year's conference is how to how to enhance the use of the Moodle learning management system. The key speaker is, of course, Martin Dougiamas, Moodle Founder and Lead Developer, Moodle HQ.

As first speaker, Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at ANU announced that ANU will be introducing Blackboard Mobile, with applications designed for accessibility and well as use on mobile devices. Also Equella and Turnitin will be introduced. Also BlackBoard Collaborate is being evaluated.

I will be demonstrating my ANU on-line green ICT course materials which are designed for accessible and mobile use at 11:50am in "A Green Computing Professional Education Course Online with Moodle" (being just back from seeing how to do this in Indonesia).

Professor Nick Klomp, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of Canberra, then discussed the use of the Mahara e-Portfolio tool for students to plan what they wanted to achieve at university. He proposed working jointly with other universities to enhance the Mahara software, which is open source, to improve it use for universities. It happens I will be leading a discussion of this topic at at 4:20pm:

Moodle can be used for well structured course-work, but can it be used for supervising more fluid student projects and postgraduate research?

Tom Worthington has designed and run award winning on-line courses. He is now looking at how to apply this experience to supervising university student projects and postgraduate higher degrees, as a way to promote social inclusion. See: "On-line Professional Education For Australian Research-Intensive Universities in the Asian Century".

ps: The audience is made up mostly of staff from University of Canberra, ANU, CIT and USQ. For the last year I have been a student of ANU, USQ and CIT, as well as attending seminars at University of Canberra. So I feel very much at home.

ANU Festival of Teaching

ANU is holding its Festival of Teaching, Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 June 2009 in Canberra. While mostly for ANU teaching staff, there is usually room for interested educators from other institutions (contact the PVC Education). Video and audio from the 2008 Festival of Teaching are available.

Festival of Teaching
Inspiring Teaching
Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 June 2009

Day One – WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE
9.15 am Welcome and opening: Professor Ian Chubb AC, Vice-Chancellor
Introduced by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Lawrence Cram
9.30 to 10.30am Keynote address: Professor Trevor Gale
Director, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, UniSA

Trevor Gale is Professor of Education and the founding director of the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education; an Australian Government funded research centre hosted by the University of South Australia. Previously he was Associate Dean (Research Degrees) in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, where he also taught courses in the sociology of teaching, policy sociology, and qualitative research methodology.

10.30 to 11.00am Morning tea

11.00 to 12.30 am What inspires teaching? What inspires learning? ...

Undergraduate and postgraduate student presentations ...
Presentations from Directors and Deans ...
12:30 to 2.00pm
Break out groups: Inspiring teaching; inspiring learning
Groups ...

2.00 to 3.00pm From Inspiration to Action
Reports and conclusions from break out groups ...

3.00pm Afternoon tea

Day Two – THURSDAY 11 JUNE
9.15 am Keynote addresses Associate Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington
2008 winner Prime Minister’s Award for University Teacher of the Year ...

In the ten years that Marnie Hughes-Warrington has taught at Macquarie University, she has worked to create learning and teaching environments in which students and staff can engage in innovation by being historians. As a teacher she seeks to expand the breadth of students' historical thinking, taking them from thirteen billion years of history in thirteen weeks in a first year, first semester course, to the sometimes acrimonious debates about the role of history in society today in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses. Students use metaphor, creative research tasks and self-assessment to shape and reshape narratives about the world and about themselves, and to reflect upon their learning so that they are able to grow as historians for the rest of their lives. The students' experiences, in turn, have inspired her research and publications on the nature of history, world history and historical films, and her work with schools and organisations such as the National Curriculum Board and the United Nations.

10.15am Morning tea

10.45 to 11.00am Presentations from teaching enhancement grant winners and students teaching award winners ...

1045-1100 Lindy Orthia (Winner, ResearchFest award for Excellence in Tutoring)
Inspiring Teaching - Inspiring Teachers to Teach

1100-1115 Wayne Morgan, Law How to (Un)Inspire Students
1115-1130 Paul Chen, CBE Academy Awards and Nobel Prizes: The Impact of Teaching
1130-1145 Daniel Martin, CASS From reading brick to listening playlist: podcasting in Spanish
1145-1200 Molly O’Brien, Law Teaching Evidence in Context
1200-1215 Henry Gardner, Martin Jolly, Clem Baker-Finch
TBA

Over lunch, in and around the foyer: presentations from
Tutors Support Network: Fringe Festival
Megan Poore: CASS/CAP Education Innovation Project ...
Exploring museums and heritage: student-created digital teaching resources
1.30 to 2.30pm Wattle Information Session
2.30 to 4.30pm Wattle Getting Started for New Users Workshop