Agenda

DAY ONE: Monday 25th October

8.30 Registration and coffee

9.00 Opening remarks from the chair

9:05 Governance, what governance?

• All organisations are faced with implementing and maintaining effective governance frameworks, but in practice how does one go about creating an effective one, and making this sustainable. This provocateur session will focus on lessons learned through practical experience, the "do's" and "do not's" and will create food for thought.

Brian Kissell, Chief Technology Officer, University of Southern Queensland

9:40 University alliances and the green data centre initiative

• An overview of the collaboration with The University of Melbourne, Monash University and RMIT University with Fujitsu Australia
• How sharing IT infrastructure will increase energy efficiency whilst serving a greater number of people
• Using green data systems as a platform for further growth
• How have improvements to technology changed the impact of IT at universities?
• Green data systems to cut cost whilst increasing efficiency

Andrew Tan, Sustainability Manager, Fujitsu Australia

10:15 Blackboard – the nexus of your enterprise virtual learning environment (VLE)

• The concepts of the VLE as opposed to the Learning Management Systems (LMS), and how the Blackboard technology platform allows for an open and powerful enterprise approach to your VLE as it evolves and grows

Chris Eske, Strategic Account Executive, Blackboard and Ben Carmichael, Solutions Engineer, Blackboard

10:45 Morning tea and networking

SECURITY

11:00 Computer and network security

• Determining security measures that do not compromise the quality of technology available
• How has the necessity of computer security changed and how is it likely to change in the future?
• Promoting preventative measures to students and staff
• How social networking sites have the capacity to host viruses

Leigh Vincent, ICT Security Officer, University of Ballarat

CONNECTING REGIONAL AUSTRALIA

11:35 Mobile Adult Learning Units

• Using IT to assist in the development of remote communities
• How university staff use the mobile units to deliver education to remote locations around the Northern Territory
• Where to from here?

Paul FitzSimons, Director Remote Coordination, and Don Zoellner, University Fellow, Charles Darwin University

12:10 Higher education information technology in regional areas

• What challenges do regional universities face in matching the IT capabilities of their metropolitan counterparts?
• Helping regional communities in terms of services provided and skilling the local workforce
• Ensuring the services provided by regional universities can be accessed on and off campus by users

Sam Austrin-Miner: Director of 2012 Flexible Online Learning Program, University of New England

12:45 Lunch

WEB 2.0

1:45 Different spaces: Staff development for Web 2.0

• Workshop Wikis in higher education
• Should staff be expected to maintain their understanding of technological developments as students?

Dr. Gayani Samarawickrema, Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University

2:20 Web 2.0 authoring tools in higher education learning and teaching: New directions for assessment and academic integrity

• Web 2.0 as a new assessment option.
• Are the possibilities endless?
• What are the challenges for teachers?

Dr Judy Sheard, Senior Lecturer, Caulfield School of Information Technology, Co-Director, Computing Education Research Group, Director, Monash Museum of Computing History, Monash University
Associate Professor Rosemary Clerehan, Director, International Postgraduate Academic Support, Monash University

2:55 Afternoon tea

3:15 CASE STUDY: A trial of SMS communication for student administration in a higher education environment
An analysis of the SMS information exchange pilot study. The push and pull factors taken from qualitative data of focus groups held for staff and student pilot participants to provide a picture of the benefits and draw backs of SMS to supporting student services.

Dr Joan Richardson, Acting Deputy Head Teaching and Learning- School of Business Information Technology & Logistics, Faculty of Business, RMIT University

LINKING INDUSTRY

3:50 Linking industry and education

• How Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) currently links with industry and an insight into how the CIT plans to partner with higher education providers to enhance their current linkage

William Nauenburg, Centre Director, Centre for Information and Communication Technology, Canberra Institute of Technology

4:25 Closing remarks from the chair

4:30 End of day one

DAY TWO: Tuesday 26th October

8:30 Registration and morning coffee

9:00 Opening remarks from chair

Prof Bruce Calway, Associate Dean Research, Swinburne University of Technology

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY

9:10 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Holistic approaches to

• Measurement and analysis
• Data centres, power & cooling
• Virtualisation and storage
• Thin clients, PCs & monitors
• Printing
• Purchasing policies
• Influencing user behaviour
• Influencing the organisation
• A 'thinking outside the box' concept - energy savings by the use of Condor

Dr Hugh Beedie, Assistant Director, Chief Technology Officer, Information Services, Cardiff University,Wales

9:50 Changing role of IT in the education sector

• The new role of executive leadership in directing and controlling the use of IT
• Policy, processes and systems to assist IT governance in your organisation
• How can the executive leadership assess proposals for IT investment? What questions should they ask?

Jan Begg, Managing Director, Azulin Pty Ltd

10:25 Morning tea

TECHNOLOGY IMPACTING TEACHING & LEARNING

10:45 Learning Management Systems and virtual classrooms

• Why technologies can make learning more efficient
• Teaching the teachers of the future
• What tools are available for the collective learning for students?
• Benefits from a staff and student point of view
• Success rates so far

Dr Caroline Walta, Senior Lecturer/Academic Coordinator, Graduate Diploma in Education Middle Years, La Trobe University

11:20 The impact of recorded lectures

• How does this sit within the context of teaching and learning
• Student attitudes to podcasting
• Podcasting as reflective and reflexive pedagogy

Helen Larkin, Lecturer, School of Health & Social Development, Deakin University

11:55 Reinforcing text as a primary learning tool using new technology

• The technology behind “Spoken Lecture”
• Video as a reinforcement of text – not a substitute
• Opening up content for use outside of universities

Prof Phil Long, Professor & Director, Centre for Educational Innovation & Technology, University of Queensland

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Skilling the higher education IT workforce

• Workplace integrated learning for IT students
• Preparing IT graduated and staff for ongoing improved ICT networks
• Giving graduates real life experience to offer perspective employers
• IT as a driver for future prosperity

Bruce Lakin, Chief Executive, The Australian Computer Society

2:10 ROUNDTABLE: Technology as a replacement for traditional teaching methods

• How obsolete will the traditional lecturer become?
• Is learning through technology more effective than physical lectures?
• How will universities change as a result of implementing new technologies?

Helen Larkin, Lecturer, School of Health & Social Development, Deakin University
Chris Eske, Strategic Account Executive, Blackboard

3:00 Afternoon tea

3:15 CASE STUDY: The Curtin Surface Project - Pushing the student experience to a new level
Curtin University is an early adopter of Microsoft Surface technology in Australia and has rolled out five Surface units across the University in various locations.

• The Curtin Surface Project - where, why, how?
• Where are the benefits of Surface Technology?
• What are the development challenges of Surface Technology?
• The student focus - how Curtin Surface put the spotlight on user experience design
• What next? Surface was just the beginning....

Kim Wisniewski, Technology Evangelist, Curtin University of Technology

3:50 Extending the boundaries of e-Research

• Technology as an enabler of global multi-disciplinary research
• Extending the boundaries of e-Research
• Meeting the technical demands of the data-centric research
• Case studies of IT developments at Monash

Prof Paul Bonnington, Director, Monash e-Research Centre, Monash University

4:25 Closing remarks from chair

4:30 End of conference