David Hall – Head of Linguistics, Macquarie Uni

"Teaching and learning in an online environment" Some really valuable points re-iterated by David’s experience with online uni courses across the Australia/Asian region: online learning is NOT a transmission model quality interaction is essential the learner experience is enhanced in comparison to the large lecture based model of teaching most problems experienced were administrative! the…

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Mike O’Neill – The Executive Connection

What do CEOs really think about training? Some key message from Mike about exploring your role through the eyes of a CEO: does your learning strategy support the business objectives is your requested investment going to be measureale? results – what will be the outcomes Oh – and baby boomers are adaptable – you bet…

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Paul Bray – Re-Engineering Australia Forum

Paul just knocked their socks off again! If you attended the LT2005 conference or joined via the LT2005 wiki, then you will already know Paul’s amazing story about schools collaborating to engineer model F1 cars (via Webex synchronous technologies) – here’s a link to Paul’s paper. (And the girls won!!!) One of the most important…

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Grant Beevers – The CyberInstitute

From e-Learning to c-Learning Grant from the CyberInstitute addressed a number of what he sees as emerging issues and trends: new practices (I’d like to add new pedagogies) focusing on the learner experience (yeah – we’re starting to get it!) use of Skype and other VOIP technologies use of IM (he probably means all the…

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Live – from the National Training Day

The National Training Day has just kicked off – here at the newly renovated Hilton Hotel in Sydney! And there’s wireless….except I had to pay for access….bummer! When will the 5 star hotels get that this sort of access should be free….!!!? So – as the Chair for the day – I’ll be trying to…

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Post-conference rewards….

Apart from the obvious rewards – the networking, the dialogues, the innovations, the inspiration….there’s another reward for attending the LT2005 conference! Did someone say "Technological Presence – when is too much?….."(Actually, the Negative debating team did – and they won – yeah team!) Well – Clearly they didn’t hear the news. Yes – it’s true…

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LT2005 is now over….

LT2005 conference may be over, but the conversations continue….visit the LT2005 wiki for the continuing collaborative space. Some recurring themes that had people talking down at Hot Pipi’s Cafe: The essay is dead – long live the video essay – thanks Adrian! TRC – Triple Ring Circus – to describe the rich learning environments –…

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