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ICICTE 2015
Learning through Interaction
and Creativity in Online Laboratories
Professor Michael
E. Auer
Professor of Electrical Engineering
at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Villach, Austria and International Association of Online
Engineering, Vienna, Austria
Dr. (mult) Michael E. Auer is
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Carinthia University
of Applied Sciences Villach, Austria. His current research
is directed to technology enhanced learning and remote
working environments especially in engineering.
He is author or co-author of more than 180 publications and
leading member of numerous national and international
organizations in the field of Online Technologies.
Michael Auer is founder and chair of the annual
international IEEE EDUCON, ICL and REV conferences and chair
or member of the Program Committees of several international
conferences and workshops.
He works as an evaluator and coordinator of European Union
funded research projects and is member in expert groups of
the European Commission.
Michael Auer is Founding-President and CEO of the
"International Association of Online Engineering" (IAOE)
since 2006, a non-governmental organization that promotes
the vision of new engineering working environments
worldwide. In 2009 he was appointed as member of the
Advisory Board of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG).
In September 2010 he was elected as President of the
"International Society of Engineering Education" (IGIP
Furthermore, he is one of the founders and Secretary General
of the "Global Online Laboratory Consortium" (GOLC). GOLC is
the result of an initiative started in 2009 at MIT to
coordinate the work on educational Online Laboratories
worldwide.
ICICTE 2014
"Looking forward by looking
back”: a review of 25 years of editorials in The American
Journal of Distance Education
Professor Michael
Grahame Moore
Distinguished Professor of
Education, Pennsylvania State University
Michael G. Moore is known in
academic circles for his leadership in promoting the
scholarship of distance education in the United States. He
published his first statement of theory about distance
education in 1972 and has achieved a number of ‘firsts’ in
this field. While teaching the first graduate course in this
subject at University of Wisconsin in the mid 70’s he was
contributory to founding the national annual conference
there.
Coming to Penn State in 1986 he
founded the first American journal (American Journal of
Distance Education), established the first Sequence of
taught graduate courses, a national research symposium, and
an online community of interest (DEOS). Before joining Penn
State in 1986 he worked for nine years at the British Open
University and has experience of teaching in all
technologies and most client groups.
Moore has served on the
editorial boards of all the main distance education journals
and his publications include Contemporary Issues in
American Distance Education (Pergamon Press, 1990), Distance
Education: A Systems View, co-authored with Greg
Kearsley (Wadsworth Publishers, 1996 and 2005), subsequently
published in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and the Handabook
of Distance Education (2003 and 2007).
Academic degrees in both
economics and education and an early seven-year career in
African education led to a lifelong interest in education
for development. This has included employment at the World
Bank and numerous consulting assignments for UNESCO, the
International Monetary Fund, and the Commonwealth of
Learning as well as several foreign governments.
His keynote speech for ICICTE
2011 was a great success and he has since often participated
in the conference.
ICICTE 2013
Distance Education and
Technology: A long marriage
Professor Alan
Tait
Professor of Distance Education and
Development at the Open University, UK.
Alan Tait is Professor of Distance
Education and Development at the Open University and has a long
record of professional practice, publication and the support of
professional development in distance and e-learning. From 2007
to 2012 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Open
University and was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education and
Language Studies. He is Editor in Chief of the European Journal
of Distance and E Learning (EURODL), was from 1989-1998 Editor
of Open Learning, was President of the European Distance and
E-Learning Network (EDEN) from 2007-2010, is Co-Director of the
Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning
and a senior member of St Edmunds College, University of
Cambridge. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by
Moscow State University for Economics, Statistics and
Informatics. He also holds a Visiting Chair at Aarhus
University.
He has worked widely in developing countries for international
organisations such as UNESCO, the European Commission and the
Commonwealth of Learning. Recent most cited publications include
‘What are Open Universities for?’, in Open Learning, 2008, Vol
23:2, pp 85-94, ‘Leadership Development for Distance and E
Learning’, 2007, in the International Handbook of Distance
Education, Eds. Evans T, Haughey M and Murphy D, pp 499-512, and
‘Planning Student Support for Open and Distance Learning’, in
Open Learning, 2000, Vol 15, No 3, pp 287-299.
ICICTE 2012
Cooperative Freedom and
Transparency in Online Education
Professor Morten
Flate Paulsen
Professor of Online Education at the
Norwegian School of Information Technology, Norway.
The presentation focuses on the
opportunities to provide online education that combines
individual freedom with meaningful cooperation. Online students
often seek individual flexibility and freedom. At the same time,
many need or prefer cooperation and social unity . These aims
are difficult to combine, so the presentation discusses online
education tools and services that support both individual
freedom and cooperation. The presentation also elucidates the
opportunities and challenges with transparency in online
learning environments and provides examples and experiences from
Universidade Aberta in Portugal and NKI Nettstudier in Norway.
Morten Flate Paulsen is the Director
of Innovation and Development at NKI Nettstudier and Professor
of Online Education at the Norwegian School of Information
Technology (NITH) in Norway.
He is President of the
European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN)
and was on the European Association for Distance Learning (EADL)
R&D committee until November 2010.
In the school
year 2009-2010, he worked part time for Universidade Aberta in
Portugal. From 1999 to 2005, Professor Paulsen was appointed as
Adjunct Professor, at the Athabasca University, Centre for
Distance Education in Canada. He has a Doctorate of Education
from the Pennsylvania State University, Department of Adult
Education and Instructional Systems.
Professor
Paulsen is the regional editor for
IRRODL
(The International Review of Research in Open and Distance
Learning),
EURODL
(The European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning) and the
Asian Journal of
Distance Education.
He is also on the Editorial Board of seminar.net.
He has worked with online
education since he designed NKI's first Learning Management
System in 1986 and published many books, reports and articles
about the topic. Many of his publications and presentations are
available at his personal homepage at
http://home.nki.no/morten.
His book Online Education and Learning Management Systems is
available via
www.studymentor.com.
You may also find
more information about Professor Paulsen’s work at:
Simple Tools that can
Revolutionse Feedback we Provide
Russell Stannard
Principal Teaching Fellow at the
University of Warwick, UK.
In this talk Russell Stannard is going to present his "pioneering" work on feedback.
He will talk about how he initially developed the idea, the
research he has undertaken and the feedback from students. This
idea has been taken up by literally thousands of teachers all
over the world and he has presented his work in more than 15
countries. It has had widespread press coverage not only because
of its impact but also because of its simplicity. It is an idea
that can be quickly adopted and adapted to a whole range of
teaching contexts and bring about real changes in the teaching
and learning experience.
Read about his work in
the Guardian 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/10/esl-video-feedback
Russell Stannard is a
Principal Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick,
specialising in the application of media and technology to
improve teaching, particularly in language learning. He runs
the website
www.teachertrainingvideos.com
which provides step by step help videos for teachers who want to
incorporate technology into their teaching. In 2008 he won
the Times Higher "Outstanding Initiative" in ICT for the website
and in 2010 he won the British Council "Innovation" award. The
site gets more than a quarter of a million visits a year from
teachers all around the world. Russell Stannard's work on feedback is
especially well-known and his pioneering of the use of screen
capture for feedback has received large scale press coverage
around the world and his concepts were recently included in a
report submitted to the UK government.
Find out more about
Russell Stannard at
www.russellstannard.com
ICICTE 2011
Continuing Education and
Distance Education: A Marriage of Convenience
Professor Michael
Grahame Moore
Distinguished Professor of
Education, Pennsylvania State University
Michael G. Moore is known in
academic circles for his leadership in promoting the
scholarship of distance education in the United States. He
published his first statement of theory about distance
education in 1972 and has achieved a number of ‘firsts’ in
this field. While teaching the first graduate course in this
subject at University of Wisconsin in the mid 70’s he was
contributory to founding the national annual conference
there.
Coming to Penn State in 1986 he
founded the first American journal (American Journal of
Distance Education), established the first Sequence of
taught graduate courses, a national research symposium, and
an online community of interest (DEOS). Before joining Penn
State in 1986 he worked for nine years at the British Open
University and has experience of teaching in all
technologies and most client groups.
Moore has served on the
editorial boards of all the main distance education journals
and his publications include Contemporary Issues in
American Distance Education (Pergamon Press, 1990), Distance
Education: A Systems View, co-authored with Greg
Kearsley (Wadsworth Publishers, 1996 and 2005), subsequently
published in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and the Handabook
of Distance Education (2003 and 2007).
Academic degrees in both
economics and education and an early seven-year career in
African education led to a lifelong interest in education
for development. This has included employment at the World
Bank and numerous consulting assignments for UNESCO, the
International Monetary Fund, and the Commonwealth of
Learning as well as several foreign governments.
ICICTE 2010
The Problem of Context: The
circumstances in which ICT can support learning
Professor Rose Luckin
The London Knowledge Lab,
The Institute of Education, UK.
Rosemary Luckin is Professor of
Learner Centred Design at the London Knowledge Lab, a visiting
Professor of Informatics at the University of Sussex and an
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow.
Her research explores how to most
effectively scaffold learning across multiple technologies,
locations, subjects and times. At the LKL she is part of a group
of researchers who share an interest in applying participatory
methods to the development and evaluation of technology enhanced
learning experiences. This work is interdisciplinary and
encompasses education, psychology, artificial intelligence and
HCI. It investigates the relationship between people, the
concepts they are trying to learn and teach, the contexts within
which they operate and the resources at their disposal.
She was appointed by the Minister
for Schools as a non-executive director of Becta (the UK
government agency leading the national drive to ensure the
effective and innovative use of technology throughout learning)
where she chairs their Research Advisory Group.
Her latest book: Redesigning
Learning Contexts, was published by Routledge in April
2010.
More information can be found on
http://tinyurl.com/8jcgej
ICICTE 2009
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 2008
Horizons for Learning
Professor Gilly Salmon
Professor of E-Learning and
Learning Technologies
University of Leicester
Gilly joined the University of Leicester in the UK in 2004 as
Professor of E-learning & Learning Technologies, after 16 years
with the Open University Business School. She is known for her
research and practice in the arenas of development and change
for successful e-learning processes and preparing for Learning
Futures. Her research and practice spans the role of ICT in
enabling change in Higher Education, through the development of
research-led e-learning strategy, to pedagogical innovation in a
wide variety of forms including mobile learning, wikis and blogs.
Gilly has two research degrees - one in online training and one
in change in education. She is known for her many articles and
commentary about the future for learning technologies and as an
international speaker. She was awarded a National Teaching
Fellowship in 2006. Prof Salmon is the author of the work now
considered seminal in the field of teaching online called
‘E-moderating’, a 2nd Edition of which was produced
in 2004, a recent book about designing for low cost
collaboration in all online learning situations called
‘E-tivities’ and another on group learning ‘Learning in Groups’.
Book Websites:
www.e-moderating.com
www.e-tivities.com
www.learningingroups.com
E-mail:
gilly.salmon@le.ac.uk
Websites:
www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance
www.atimod.com
ICICTE 2007
Integrating
Learning, Living and Working
Dr Rob Koper
Professor and Director of
Learning Technologies Research
Open University of the Netherlands.
Dr Koper has 22
years of experience in the field. Among other things, he was
responsible for the development of Educational Modelling
Language, currently an open standard through the IMS consortium
(IMS Learning Design), and he leads or participates in a variety
of EU-funded R&D projects. He is the coordinator of the EU
Integrated Project TENCompetence, aiming at the development of
an Open Source Infrastructure for Lifelong Competence
Development. He serves and has served on a variety of editorial
boards, program committees, and has been responsible for the
organization of a large number of international conferences,
seminars and workshops in the field, most recently the IEEE
ICALT conference. Additionally, he has had numerous roles on
management and advisory boards, such as the National Assessment
Agency, the Digital University Consortium, the local government,
and standardisation bodies such as IMS and CEN/ISSS.
More
information on Professor Koper can be found at the following
sites:
Publications:
http://scholar.google.nl/scholar?q=%22rob+koper%22&hl=nl&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Zoeken
Research group website:
www.learningnetworks.org
TENCompetence project:
www.tencompetence.org
ICICTE 2006
Information and Communication Technologies: From Learning and
Education to Their Use in Practice
George
Papandreou
President of PASOK, President of Socialist
International, ex-Prime Minister of Greece
In his over 25 years as a member of the
Greek Parliament, Mr. Papandreou has served terms as the
Minister of Foreign Affairs (1999–2004), Minister of Education
and Religious Affairs (1988-1989,1994–1996, Prime Minister (2009–
)
and was Chairperson
of the Parliamentary Committee of Education (1982–1985). He has
been a member of the Board of the
Foundation of Mediterranean Studies
and the Foundation for Research and Self-Education. His numerous
awards include being honoured by more than 15 countries.
Mr.
Papandreou’s keynote speech discussed the efforts that Greece
has made in developing educational software and the educational
portal of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs as
they relate to information communication technologies in
education.
For more information on George Papandreou
see
http://www.papandreou.gr/
ICICTE 2004
Driving
the Future of E-Learning
Dr John Eklund
Principal Usability Analyst, Access Testing Centre;
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Eklund’s
expertise is in the design, implementation and evaluation of
interactive media. Most of his work involves consulting to
corporate clients on process to build and evaluate e-learning.
He has conducted dozens of usability studies for a range of
government and corporate clients and specializes in designing
cost-effective studies that maximize the benefit to development.
He has conducted Post Implementation Reviews on large systems
for the Australian government. Published widely with over 40
publications in national and international peer-reviewed
journals and conference proceedings, he is an editor of the
Australian Journal for Educational Technology and Universal
Access in the Information Society.
http://www.uxresearch.com.au/
Visiting the
Past and Visioning the Future: Information & Communication
Technologies and Learning in Our Transforming World
Professor Marcie Boucouvalas
Program Director and Professor of Adult Learning
and Human Resource Development, Virginia Tech Graduate Center,
USA
Dr Boucavalas
is a resident faculty member of Virgina Tech’s Graduate
Center. She has four decades of experience in
the field, practicing within a variety of institutional contexts,
in geographically diverse areas, in urban and rural settings,
with a myriad of populations, special interest group and
cultures from the elite to the impoverished.
She has served on
the editorial board of the Adult Education Quarterly for
over a decade and has been editor-in-chief for the Journal of
Transpersonal Psychology since 2002 having served as a field
editor since 1981. Dr Boucavalas
has published, made presentations, or provided
service/consulting in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, served
as a Kellogg exchange professor to England, and was the USA
representation to three World Assemblies in Adult Education and
to two UNESCO Assemblies. She is listed in biographical
reference publications such as Who’s Who in America,
Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who of Emerging
Leaders in America, The World Who’s Who of Women,
The Who’s Who of Business and Professional Women, and the
International Directory of Distinguished Leadership.
She is a member of the
International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.
http://www.halloffame.outreach.ou.edu/2003/Boucouvalas.html
ICICTE 2003
The Growth of
Global Virtual Universities and Their Impact on National
Universities
Dr Paul Babich
Professor and Director of Special Projects, UK eUniversities
Worldwide Limited, United Kingdom
In his role as
Director of Special Projects, Professor Babich is responsible
for a number of areas including research, evaluation, and
comparative analysis of the service and IT system in terms of
other offerings around the world. He has particular interests in
cost effectiveness of e-learning, critical success factors for
virtual universities, and comparative analysis of Managed
Learning Environments. Formerly he was at Sheffield Hallam
University where he was Professor of Telematics and Head of
Department of Multimedia and Networks within the School of
Computing and Management Sciences. Prior to this, he had been
for many years at the British Open University, working as a
project manager in several academic and support departments,
ending up as Assistant Director of the Knowledge Media
Institute. He has been a Research Fellow at the Mathematical
Institute, Oxford and a project manager in ICL (now Fujitsu). He
is active in several UK e-learning bodies such as the
Association for Learning Technology and the Joint Information
Systems Committee.
The Revolution
is Over! So Who Won?
Dr Craig
Blurton
Head, IT & Teaching Group, Centre for the Advancement
of University Teaching (CAUT), University of Hong Kong, China
At the CAUT of
the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Blurton is responsible for
helping develop policy and participating in strategic planning
initiatives focused on information technologies in education,
identifying and working with promising academic staff
initiatives in multimedia production, conducting research into
the effective uses of instructional technologies, and promoting
the use of IT at the University. He is Deputy Chair of the HKU
Academic Council
for Information Technology in Education, and Partnership Manager
for the HKU/IBM ThinkPad computer program. Prior to coming to
HKU, Dr Blurton was Associate Director of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration Classroom of the Future in
the United States, NASA’s premier research and development
laboratory for educational technologies.
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