ASCILITE NEWS
ASCILITE 2018 Conference Registration Opens
The 2018 Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that registration for ASCILITE 2018 is now available online as per the schedule below. Full registration includes all social events, while for day registration tickets to social events are available at additional cost. The committee is hard at work developing a great conference for 2018 so stay tuned for some exciting news in the coming months.
Should you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us via email or call us on +613 5247 9360
| REGISTRATION | EARLY BIRD* | STANDARD* |
| ASCILITE Member | $800 | $900 |
| ASCILITE Non-member | $950 | $1050 |
| Student/Retired Member | $550 | $550 |
| Student/Retired Non-member | $625 | $625 |
| Day Registration (per day) | $450 | $450 |
| CMP Mentor/Mentee | $400 | $400 |
* All prices are given in AUD and are inclusive of GST. Early Bird rates will be available until 12 October 2018.
Reminder: Call for Participation is Now Open
In case you missed it, the Call for Participation is now open and you will find full details on the conference website here.
ASCILITE 2018 Conference Call for Reviewers
We are currently seeking reviewers for ASCILITE 2018. If you would like to participate in the review process please email us today to register your interest. The call for reviewers closes 25 May 2018.
What do you need to do?
- Complete the review of your assigned submissions by the due date 10 August 2018
- Adhere to review criteria as determined by the Program Committee
- Advise immediately of any conflict of interest with papers allocated to you for review
AJET Special Issue on Learning Design Research, Vol 34 (2) 2018 Now Published
We are pleased to advise a Special Issue of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology for 2018 has been published. The editorial for the issue and the articles it contains are available from the AJET website
Special thanks go to our Guest Editors, Eva Dobozy (Curtin University) and Leanne Cameron (Southern Cross University) for their commitment to making this issue happen and as always, we thank the wonderful team of associate editors who facilitate the reviews and author revisions. The associate editors are Associate Professor Shirley Agostinho, Dr Thomas Donald Cochrane, Dr Linda Corrin (University of Melbourne, Australia), Dr Helen Farley, Associate Professor Paul Gruba, (University of Melbourne, Australia), Professor Judi Harris (William and Mary School of Education USA), Dr Chwee Beng Lee (Western Sydney University, Australia), Dr Jason M Lodge (University of Melbourne, Australia), Associate Professor Lina Markauskaite (The University of Sydney, Australia), Dr Stephen Marshall (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Dr Michael Phillips (Monash University, Australia).
We would also like to acknowledge the authors for their contributions to AJET and for the support we received from them in preparing papers for this issue.
Assoc. Prof. Michael Henderson, Assoc. Prof. Eva Heinrich and Assoc. Prof. Petrea Redmond
Lead Editors, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
OTHER NEWS
Job Vacancy: Lecturer in Educational Technologies, Griffith University
Griffith University is known for its high impact research, outstanding student experience, our commitment to social justice and our welcoming environment. We’re proud of our remarkable achievements, of our people and their passion for making a positive difference. Together we contribute to the development of knowledge and learning in an attractive environment which values excellence, equity, diversity, and innovation.
The School of Education and Professional Studies is a national leader in education research and innovative teaching programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The School is one of the largest teaching areas of Griffith University with a diverse range of degree programs for more than 3000 undergraduate students offered in a range of programs including: early, primary, junior secondary and secondary teacher education; autism, inclusive and special education; adult and vocational education and training.
The opportunity
As Lecturer, you will to undertake teaching and research in the field of Technologies education as well as contribute to the School’s teaching and research outcomes including publications and research success, teaching excellence and higher degree research supervision and completions, and engagement activities. As the successful candidate, you will have a completed doctoral qualification relevant to the fields Educational Technologies and experience in teaching at a tertiary level. You will have a developing research profile with evidenced of high quality published research.
This is a continuing, full time position based at the Mt Gravatt campus.
Further details are available on Linkedin.
Groupwork Survey Invitation, Learning Innovation Hub (Macquarie University)
Dear colleagues,
Are there any topics in Learning and Teaching that make you a bit nervous? For me, this topic is groupwork. As a student I hated groupwork with a passion because I usually did most of the work myself and felt resentful of the rest of the team. There is an elegant term in academic literature for it – a ‘sucker’. Check out this publication.
As a teacher and Learning and Teaching professional I keep hearing about numerous benefits that groupwork can bring (deep, cooperative, experiential learning, etc.) and I want to give concrete rather than vague advice to academics on how to get the most out of groupwork. So I thought I’d call on my ‘brain trust’ (the ASCILITE community) to collect some ideas on making good groupwork happen. In return, I promise to create a ‘report’ on what I’ve learnt and share the resources back with the community.
So what can you do to help?
Please respond to this very brief survey, and feel free to send me any useful groupwork resources that you know of/use. I’d really appreciate it!
Dr. Olga Kozar
Senior Learning Designer
Learning Innovation Hub/Shared Services Team
Macquarie University
