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Edition 01 Contents
Welcome to the first
edition of the Knowledge Tree. In this edition we aim to:
- provide a platform for sharing
new ideas in flexible learning and leadership
- keep learning leaders and
practitioners up to date
- promote the practice of
flexible learning and leadership
- facilitate flexible learning
leader networking on a national and international basis.
Peer
Reviewed Articles:
§ 'Beyond
W3C: TruVision - Enhanced Online Learning for People Blind Or Vision Impaired'
- Frank Bate writes about accessibility in the design of online learning
environments
§ 'e-magine
Online Campus: VET in Schools implementation' - Mick Chalmers describes the
use of a mentoring model to implement change to online delivery (in a VET in
Schools context)
§ 'Considerations
for a Digital Repository' - Ralph Wirski et al. write on digital
repositories for learning objects
§ 'The
Evolution of the Flexible Learning Leaders Program' - Jenny Dodd explores
leadership development through storytelling, metaphor and dialogue.
Critique:
§ Kate
Fannon raises issues of aging teachers and Peta
Pash considers the importance of collaborative assessment in 'Knowledge
Builders - fresh thinking about learners and their teachers', ANTA 2002
§ Sally
Drummond asks why the disadvantage faced by teachers is not mentioned in 'Access
and Equity in Online Learning: Digital Divide', ANTA, 2001.
Download
the original papers and the critiques.
Interviews:
National
perspective
§ Cecilie
Murray – The Le@rning Federation describes the schools sector's learning
object approach to online content development
International
perspectives
§ David
Sloane and Scott Milne - Digital Media Access Group,
§ Sandy
Smith and Claire Johnson - The Scottish University for Industry (UFI) -
describe successes and learning experiences with LearnDirect.
§ Dr.
Rachel Harris - Scottish Centre for Research into Online Learning and
Assessment (Scrolla) - discusses her role in the international Online
Tutoring Skills Project
§ Access
summaries and links to 2002 conferences in flexible learning.
Digital
Storytelling:
§ Linda
Smart explores her journey to life in TAFE frontiers
§ Access
reports from
Edition
02 Contents
Welcome to
the second edition of the Knowledge Tree. In this bumper edition, we have
focused on elearning as an international business venture, including
consideration of the business improvement, partnerships, collaboration, web
services and human resource implications required to satisfy such markets.
Peer
reviewed articles:
§ Consider
current barriers that restrict business improvement in Elizabeth McPherson's
article on 'How
are you Measuring you Teaching Time in Flexible Learning?'
§ Steve
Hatch in 'Network
Security: Issues for Online Education', outlines problems that currently
face RTOs trying to communicate and collaborate, with clients and partners.
§ Grapple
with Linda Smart's 'Validated
Individual Learning Pathways' in a challenging view, from the future, of
vocational education in
§ Leura
Cathcart raises some issues to consider in 'Web
Services, Portals and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) - An Organisational
Perspective'. She considers how XML Web Services can strengthen knowledge
management and communication within educational institutions, while improving
services to internal and external clients.
§ 'Elearning
in the WA Schools Sector: Lessons Learnt' by Jean MacNish and Dr. Sue
Trinidad reports on two innovative e-learning and assessment projects undertaken
in the Western Australia VET in Schools arena in 2002. They consider the key
factors that enhanced or inhibited the success of the e-learning experience in
retail training
Critique:
§ Examine
how to use elearning as a business improvement tool, through Lyn Ambrose's
summary of
§ Frankie
Forsyth posits systemic, 'big picture' implications in her critique of the
Australian Flexible Learning (AFL) Framework research into teaching and
learning online.
Interviews:
Private
Sector Registered Training Organisations (RTO) harness technology:
§ View
an interview with Julie Boyd of Multiversity Digital, an educational export
broker marketting educational products (including qualifications)
internationally. You will be pressed to consider how a broker can help VET
sector organisationa to work together and collaborate with other sectors, to
service markets way too big for any single Australian RTO/university/school
provider.
§ View
Bernadette Harris' (Harris Bromly) reflections on e-learning in workplaces,
from the perspective of a small innovative RTO going it alone.
§ View
conversations with leaders Peter
Robertson, Ken Gooding, Marie Jasinski, Donna
Hensley, Vicki Marchant, Brad Beach, Claire Brooks, Leone
Wheeler and Carol Hampton about innovation with communities and their
collaborations in fee-for-service online facilitation training and virtual team
work.
§ View
digital stories by Marlene
Manto on online communities, Megan
Funston on flexible learning with remote communities and Carole
McCulloch on her
Flexible Learning Leader journey.
§ Access
summaries and links to 2002 conferences in flexible learning.
§ Access
reports from
Edition
03 Contents
Welcome to
the third edition of the Knowledge Tree – the e-Journal of Flexible Learning in
Vocational Education and Training (VET). We’ve refocused this, our August 2003
edition, on:
- innovation in leadership,
teaching and learning
- research
- an improved web presence and knowledge
management strategy to encourage greater interaction between leaders in
flexible learning.
Peer
reviewed articles:
§
Margaret
Barron describes her experiences of intensive role-playing with standard
discussion and chat software. Marg's strong social justice ethic is evident
both in her dedication to enervating learning with lifelike experiences and in
her generous modelling of ways to use commonly, freely available, tools to do
so.
Critique:
§ Margaret
Aspin casts her discerning eyes over the Australian Flexible Learning
Framework Registered Training Organisation (RTO) Case Studies.
§ Rod
Savoie of the National Research Council of Canada has kindly critiqued the work
of Australian leaders (Tim Hand, Peter Higgs and Sam Meredith) in the learning
objects and digital rights management debate. Find out what a LOX is!
Interviews:
§
Vivienne
Blanksby and Graeme Brownfield update us on the national Flexible Learning
Toolbox initiative
§
Peter
Coyne gives an insider's view of corporate e-learning at Crown Casino.
§
Flexible Learning for Small Business? View presentations by Kathi
Eland and Barb
McPherson, Flexible Learning Leaders in 2002.
§
Leone
Wheeler discusses some recent developments in learning communities.
§
Martyn
Wild talks about a brave new eLearning initiative from AMES Online.
From the
Branches:
§ Access
state reports from Queensland,
New
South Wales and Victoria
on activities in flexible learning during 2002.
Current
Research:
§
View interviews about Applied Research projects with recipients Frank
Bate and Linda Smart, Chris
Howell, Reece
Lamshed, Prue
Madsen, Ellie
Thompson
§
John
Mitchell clearly outlines the real issues and challenges at the nub of the
‘Emerging Futures: Innovation in Teaching and Learning in VET’ research.
2003
Leaders Projects:
§
Over 40 Flexible Learning Leaders were funded in 2003. View
a selection of them or download
the summary of the whole group and their goals.
Edition
04 Contents
Welcome to the
fourth edition of the Knowledge Tree – the e-Journal of Flexible Learning in
Vocational Education and Training (VET). Read on for the latest e-learning
practice, research and opinion in
Peer
Reviewed Articles:
§ 'Blogging
to Learn' -
§ 'Online
adventures in the global world of e-learning – the musings of 3 ‘armchair’
cultural explorers' - Louise Housden,
§ 'Watch
this space: Developing a music/education partnership' - Dawn Bennett,
Flexible Learning Leader funded in 2003, surfaces the pivotal role communities
of practice (CoP) can play in ensuring that education and industry groups plan,
teach and assess in partnership as she describes the establishment of the
Australian Music Network CoP.
§
‘Real
Time, Real Young, Real Smart.The use of the Internet for real time teaching
with 5 to 8 year olds.' - Megan Hastie and Dr. Allan Palmer provide an
inspired and refreshing insight into the possibilities for using information
and communication technologies (Netmeeting) for individualised direct
instruction in real time with young children. They describe highly motivated
students, higher levels of cognitive function, enhanced memorisation of new
concepts and an increase in attention span.
§ 'Developing
the Diploma in Human Resources (HR) toolbox' - Barry Reeves, Sheevaun
Gallacher and Kate Robinson describe the experience of developing an online
learning resource, which integrates reusable learning objects with a case
study, and piloting one unit in the Toolbox with enrolled students.
Critique:
§ Read
Frank
Bate's critique of the discussion paper ‘e-Learning: emerging issues and
key trends’ by Dr John Eklund, Margaret Kay and Helen M. Lynch, developed to
inform the decision making of the Australian Flexible Learning Advisory Group.
Frank finds a number of problematic points, particularly the forecasted
‘limited applicability in VET [of the learning object model]’(Eklund Kay et
al.:30). The original paper is provided together with the Frank’s critique.
What do you think?
From The
Branches:
§ View
recent activities in
Interviews:
§ View
our Feature
Interview with Janina Gawler,
the new Chief Executive Officer of the Australian National Training Authority. Hear
her clear perspective on vocational education and training.
§ Find
out how Open Source products like moodle can help you! Michael Chalk's interest
in Open Source systems and learning management platforms lead him to interview
Australians working with Open Source. View interviews with Martin
Dougiamis (developer of moodle) and Marty
Cielens (user of moodle) as part of his Flexible Learning Leader research
in 2003.
§ View
Alison
Gotts outlining new approaches to e-learning professional development
(Diploma in E-learning) in the context of the last ten years of flexible
learning innovation in vocational education and training
§ View
Nola Campbell discussing the application
of role plays in e-Learning.
§ View
Nola Campbell discussing Open
Source Teaching Environments.
Current
Research:
§ Update
on the Applied Research projects funded under the Policy and Research
program of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework with Project Manager Kate
Fannon.
§ Read
about Innovation and Excellent Practice in VET
§
Follow
up the New Practices research projects and hear from:
§ Myree Russell, Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) on Building
Communities – Managing Community Content
§ Barbara Roszkowski, Onkaparinga Institute of TAFE, on
Competitive Manufacturing education via a project centred learning strategy
§ Tim Hand, Sam Meredith and Peter Higgs, Open Training and
Education Network on a Framework for
rights enabled learning object exchange trial
§ Steve Fisher, Centre for Innovation & Development, TAFE
§ Shaun
Crispin, Tropical
§ Merv Edmunds, Corangamite District Adult Education Group
Inc on Avec Esprit: creating curricula options for improved learning and
enhanced work and life prospects for young people
§ Dorothy Lucardi, Central Australian Remote Health
Development Services, on Online Learning for Healthy
Communities
§ Pauline De Vries Douglas Mawson Institute of Technology on Port-Ability:
Integrated Learning Options, Skilling people, growing business, building
community
§ Theo Kavadias and Joan Salmon Holmesglen Institute of TAFE on a Just-In-Time
Learning Assistant
Good
Practice:
The
segment outlines good news stories and some highlights of the NET*Working
2003 conference.
Edition 05 Contents
The fifth
edition of the Knowledge Tree e-Journal of Flexible Learning in VET features
leaders who are exploring ways to provide creative and connecting experiences
for learners and who are seeking to transform and sustain their organisations’
abilities to deliver flexible learning.
Through
innovative approaches to leadership, organisational sustainability, business
modelling, knowledge management, pedagogies, multiliteracies, facilitation with
new communication technologies, instructional design and strategic and
operational organisational change, Australian VET leaders are being recognised,
both internationally and within Australian schools and universities, as key
thinkers, serious researchers and ‘cutting edge’ practitioners in the steady
transformation of learning in vocational settings.
Peer Reviewed Articles:
§ Our
Youth. Are they digitally enhanced or not? by Mardi Dwyer
§ Using
Safety Nets: flexible learning and operational changeUsing
safety nets: flexible learning and operational change by Jennifer Harding
§ Performance
= knowledge + learning + use (Clark 2003): the application of knowledge
management theory to add practical value to a VET organization by Maureen
Sullivan
§ Flying
in the VET Sector: Throwing yourself at the ground - and missing! by Sue
Goodbourn
Non peer reviewed
articles:
§ Finding
your Voice Online: an enquiry into the use of voice applications in higher
education by Michael Coghlan
§ Implementing
elearning from the corporate perspective by Rita Bennink
§ Return
on Investment in using Technology based Simulation in Ambulance Officer
Training by Steve Matheson
§ Flexible
Libraries: opportunities and strategies for engagement by Leonie Pope
§ Rethinking
models of literacy provision for the 21st century by
§ Opening
the LOOP: developing a flexible learning culture in the workplace by Damon
Wallace
§ Selling
Change: a case study by Graeme Kirkwood
Critique
§ ‘RSS
blogging and what is means for teaching and learning’ by Michael Chalk,
Preston Reservoir Adult and Community Education (ACE)
§ ‘Leadership
in VET’ by Jenny Dodd and Phoebe Palmieri
§ ‘Sustainable
VET Leadership’ by Jock Grady
From the branches:
State
reports from Victoria,
New
South Wales and Queensland
Interviews:
§ Increasing
teacher and learner engagement through creativity with Dr. Stephen Heppell,
Ultralab
§ A
Global Online Support and Content Development Centre for international users
with Geoff Elwood, Etechgroup
§ Mentoring
in the Flexible Learning Toolboxes initiative with Professor
§ Multiliteracies
in the Online Environment with Christine Sutton
Current Research:
§ A
Distributed VET research model for regional Australia
Jo Murray
interviews Chris Horton and Jock Grady about their ideas for a Distributed
Collaborative Research Model for VET in regional
§ A
summary of recent research covers distributed schools, innovative use of
communication technologies, outsourcing, partnerships, working laterally,
network logic including ‘smart mobs’, VET’s contribution to building social
capital and assessment in flexible learning, with links to recent interviews,
reports and publications.
Good Practice:
This section
contains reports, short articles, case studies and exemplars drawn from the
Flexible Learning Leaders group.
§ The
Sustainable Vocational Education and Training Organisation Mark Landy and
Sheila Fitzgerald
§ Increasing
the use of e-resources in mainstream teaching and learning by Bryan Ormesher
§ From
Ripples to Waves by Sue Hickton
§ Key
competencies, employability skills and the new training organisation by Andrea
Bartetzko
§ The
e-business and e-learning journey of an Adult and Community Education provider.
Edition 06
Peer reviewed articles:
Shaping
New Practices: Promoting a more culturally led and community inclusive approach
to vocational education and training (VET) by Julie Woodlock
Designing
for active learning: A conversation by Margaret O’Connell and Umesh Sharma
M-learning
in the C21st: benefits for learners by Simon Geddes
Towards
Quality and Innovative Teaching Practice: Professional Development for Flexible
Learning by Christine Sutton
Non
reviewed articles:
Oh
behave! Reflecting teachers’ behaviour management practices to teachers by
Martha Goldman and Mark Robinson
Facilitation
Skills in an Online World by Faye Harris
Is
Online Teaching for You? by
Critique:
E-learning
versus Flexible Learning by Peter Le Cornu
International
e-learning: expectations and reality by Megan Funston
From the Branches:
Reports
from the Northern
Territory, Western
Australia Tasmania
and South
Australia.
Interviews:
Communities
of Practice in Community Radio with Nicky Page, Radio Adelaide
Positive
change to blended learning with Lyn Goodear South West TAFE, Victoria.
Anna
Henderson, Flexible Learning Leader 2004, Business Skills Victoria
Emma
Deutrom, Flexible Learning Leader 2004, Centrelink, Australia
The
Learning Edge, Peter Higgs and Chris Jones
Current Research:
Mobile
Law and e-Portfolios with Elizabeth Hartnell-Young and Peter Jones
education.au
and MOBIlearn Europe with Jon Mason
Egg
Boiling and M-learning? with
M-learning
research, TAFE Tasmania with Marcus Ragus
M-learning
in vocational education and training with Julie Collareda
Flexible
Learning Leaders 2004 Preview
Digibank
by Vicki Bates and Paul Genat
Good Practice:
Free
For Education - The latest innovation for managing your IP– a concept suited to
the digital age by Carol Fripp
Teacher
ICT Skills Key to Online Benefits for VET in Schools
Ellumination!
Team e-moderating helps in live interviews...but how? by Jo Murray
teacherSmart
by Julie Collareda
Special Edition Contents
Editorial:
In this special
edition editorial, Jo Murray outlines the achievements of the Flexible
Learning Leaders initiative, the 2004 scholarship recipients and the role the Knowledge
Tree e-journal in developing greater knowledge sharing and rapid publishing
among flexible learning practitioners and researchers in Australian Vocational
Education and Training.
Peer reviewed articles:
Stopping
and Realising – Managing Emotions Intelligently in Teaching and Learning by
Mary Aquino
Non
reviewed articles:
A
model of leadership impact to support innovation by Terri Connellan
Effective
Use of Technology in Flexible Learning for 15-19 Year Olds by Janine Bowes
Interviews:
Right
People! Right Jobs! Right Outcomes! Improving Client Satisfaction with Annette
Kirby
Authenticity
in learning for disengaged 15-19 year olds with Steve MvVey
Engaging
Indigenous communities in learning about health through IT/multimedia with
Tanya Wooley
Current Research:
The
Librarian as Information Coach in Collaborative Delivery Teams with Lucy Hill
Hitting
the Right Rocks Right: Innovation and Change Management with Jacqueline Bates
Good Practice:
Australian
Flexible Learning Blog and Site Web by Josephine Murray
MARVINTM by the Framework Communications Team
Edition 07 Contents
Editorial
On this editorial the changes in management
of The Knowledge Tree an e-Journal of Learning Innovation are explained.
Under the management of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) E-learning
International project of the 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework (2005
Framework), The Knowledge Tree is positioned as the journal of the
Framework, sharing research and innovation in global e-learning practice.
Edition 7 contains contributions (some
international), which explore tensions in the convergence of pedagogy and
technology, including both challenges and opportunities.
Lead article
Ulises Mejias writes on the tensions
between pedagogy and social software, about news ways of learning and
participating in society in ‘A
Nomad’s Guide to Learning and Social Software’.
Critique
Leigh
Blackall critiques how
digital literacy, for the use of social software, affects teaching practices in
Australian education in ‘Digital literacy: how it affects teaching practices
and networked learning futures - a proposal for action research’.
Peer reviewed articles
Chris Brook
and
Mark
Nichols looks at the strategic balancing act required to manage organisational
responses to e-learning in ‘Tensions
in the Convergence of Technology and Pedagogy’.
Diane
Newton and Allan Ellis consider ‘The
influence of organisational culture on e-learning design in the Australian
Army’
Margaret
O’Connell and Ralph Hampson consider the internationalisation of curricula and
intentionally seek to incorporate cultural difference in e-learning experiences
in ‘A
meeting of minds: Blurring international boundaries in a postgraduate Social
Work course’.
Non peer
reviewed articles:
Howard
Errey reports on the introduction of online counselling
into student support services in ‘How
r u Howard? :) A report on Online Counselling Practice in Education’
Lisa Wait
outlines the pedagogical tensions and different design approaches required to
develop and package e-learning resources for different uses in ‘Maintaining
a comprehensive problem-based learning environment while implementing SCORM and
IMS’.
Interviews:
On the
business of e-learning, Lisa Vincent and Barry Gordon discuss collaborative
responses to content development in ‘A Savv-e Solution: the Elearning Network of
Australasia’.
Prue
Mellor outlines her creative ‘offshore’ response to addressing
Current
Research
Our
Current Research selection includes a range of interesting web logs, sharing
ideas and approaches to learning innovation.
Edition 08 Contents
Edition 08
focuses on Tensions in the convergence of e-learning and e-business’, including the role of improvisation
and shifting leadership in the management of global business projects, the
relevance of social software for e-business in the age of connectivism, how
businesses use and can use e-learning, and how it is perceived as a business.
Professor Ann Majchrzak,
and colleagues from the University of Southern California, consider the role of
improvisation and shifting leadership in the management of global business
projects, in the lead article, ‘Managing
Emergent Work: Revisiting Jazz Lessons’.
Dr. Neville Higgins opines on the
e-business-e-learning nexus in and practical approaches in the ‘Practical
guide to e-learning for industry’
Guidelines for contributions are available from the home page or email
the editor: jomurray@southcom.coma.au
Visit The Knowledge Tree: http://flexiblelearning.net.au/knowledgetree/