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ICICTE 2009
KEYNOTE
Transforming Educational Technologists
Dr Simon Shurville
Program Director of Business Information Management and Library
and Information Management
University of South Australia
Simon directs an innovative postgraduate program at the
University of South Australia which integrates archival
management, knowledge management, librarianship and records
management. Simon is currently leading a transformation of the
program’s online presence to facilitate experiential learning
with a new institutional personal learning environment.
His recent work focuses on change, innovation and human resource
management in flexible and technology enhanced learning. His
current research interests with professional doctorate students
are in facilitating ethical elicitation of indigenous knowledge
and transferring archives threatened by climate change to safer
havens. Simon recently co-edited a double special issue of
Organizational Transformation and Social Change (OTSC) on
‘Technology Driven Change in Higher Education’ and has co-edited
three special issues of Campus-Wide Information Systems
presenting papers from ICICTE. He is currently co-editing a
special issue of OTSC on ‘Renewing Libraries for the 21st
Century’ and an issue of CWIS on ‘Innovative Assessment in the
Australian Technology Network’. Simon is assistant editor of
CWIS with responsibility for instigating and managing special
and themed issues, which have included ‘E-Learning in China’ and
‘E-Portfolios’. He
co-edited the successful book Words on the Web and
has published on technology enhanced learning since the
mid-1990s.
Simon holds a BA and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and an MA
in Change Management. He is a professional grade member of ALIA
and a CITP and a fellow of the BCS and a fellow of the UK HEA.
He has lectured for the University of
Brighton, City University, Cranfield University, The University
of Essex, The Open University (UK) and The University of Oxford.
Simon recently migrated to Australia where he is doing his best to
figure out the rules of the national game.
E-mail:
simon.shurville@unisa.edu.au
Website: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/Staff/Homepage.asp?Name=Simon.Shurville
ICICTE 2010
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