Dr. Ted Nelson, Founding Designer, Project Xanadu in Sydney this evening said “I was here first and its all gone wrong”. This was in reference to Facebook. He argues that the last 60 years of computing has gone the wrong way, with hierarchical systems which imitated paper systems online. It will be interesting to seeRead… Read more »
The second last session of CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011 is just starting. I attended because I thought this was an EDUCAUSE conference. I have subscribed to their online discussion forums for years and looked forward to attending one of their events. It was a little disappointing to find this was not one of them. The conferenceRead… Read more »
In “Preparing a Poster for an Academic Conference” I discussed how I went about preparing a poster for CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011. The final poster and notes are avialable online. I prepared the poster as a HTML web page, with two sets of additional CSS formatting, for the notes and for fine tuning the printed version.ARead… Read more »
Greetings from CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011 in Sydney, where Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic, University of Auckland Library talked on “E-books: how can we show they are worth it?”. Ksenija showed statistics on the borrowing of paper and e-book copies of the same works, showing the electronic versions are accessed far more often than the paper books. She pointedRead… Read more »
Greetings from CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011 in Sydney, where McKenzie Wark is speaking on “Alice Through the Looking Glass”. He argued that there was no millennial generation of students who are comfortable with technology. Students producing a “newspaper” still want to see it in print.I tried to find where I first came across McKenzie, so IRead… Read more »
The last speaker for the day at CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011 in Sydney was Diana Oblinger, President of Educause, on “Next Generation Learning”. She pointed out that the US and Austrlaian goals for increased participation in post secondary education will require courses to be provided for people had not expected to do them. To me thatRead… Read more »
Mal Booth, UTS, talked on “How we are taking UTS to the library of the future” at at CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011 in Sydney.It was refreshing to have a presenter who invited the audience to find the notes for their talk online and read it. Unfortunately as the material is in Slideshare it is very difficultRead… Read more »
The last speaker for the day at CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011 in Sydney was Diana Oblinger, President of Educause, on “Next Generation Learning”. She pointed out that the US and Austrlaian goals for increased participation in post secondary education will require courses to be provided for people had not expected to do them. To me thatRead… Read more »
The first talk after lunch at CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011 in Sydney is “Regulatory Frameworks for Distance Education in the Asia/Pacific Region” by Stephen Marshall, Victoria University of Wellington. This was the result of a small research project on what is happening in the region. Organisations involved included DeHub, INQAAHE. Issues included social inclusion, role ofRead… Read more »
Michael Nycyk, Curtin University talked on “Online Student Conferences as Assessment Instruments” at at CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011 in Sydney. The Internet studies students were required to organise and run an academic online conference as part of their course “Debating Communities and Networks Conference 2010”. They had to write their own paper and review others andRead… Read more »