Dr Maree Gosper is a senior lecturer in academic development in the Learning and Teaching Centre Macquarie University. Maree has been involved in a number of cross-sector and university-wide development activities to support teaching and learning development, the integration of technologies into the curriculum and the development of sustainable eLearning environments. She has been involved in the development, implementation and evaluation of Macquarie University’s teaching development grant schemes for a number of years and is currently leading a major project developing a policy framework for technologies in learning and teaching at Macquarie.
Maree has led and managed a number of institutional research projects at Macquarie University and externally funded research projects including the Web-based Lecture Technology Project funded through the Carrick Institute (now known as the Australian Learning and Teaching Council). Her research activity has covered a range of disciplines with a focus on the integration of information and communications technologies into the curriculum, matching cognitive processes underpinning learning with cognitive enabling features of technologies, and the development of effective and learning communities and eLearning environments.
Dr Rob Phillips works in the Teaching and Learning Centre at Murdoch University, Perth Western Australia. He has worked with educational technology since 1992 and has a background in theoretical chemistry and computer science. He combines thorough pedagogical knowledge with strong information technology skills. Rob was responsible for the implementation of the WebCT Learning Management System at Murdoch and he now plays a role in educational policy development. He spent some time managing Murdoch’s Open and Distance education areas.
In 2007, Rob was a Senior Consultant to the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education on the development of the Carrick Exchange, a social networking system for the identification, dissemination and embedding of quality individual and institutional practice into the higher education sector.
He has broad, but practical research interests, including university policy issues; evaluation of learning using ICT; learning objects and content management; making creative and innovative use of technology; and project management in ICT developments.
He was President of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite) from 1996 to 2000, and was an executive member of the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE) from 2004-2006. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia and received a 2007 Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning "For leadership in scholarly academic practice in the use of Information and Communication Technology to improve learning and teaching".
The workshop will be structured around five activities.
Introduction and orientation (15 mins)
This will feature a plenary discussion to explore the participants' contexts and the issues they are facing from institutional, staff and student perspectives.
Presentation of findings and major themes to emerge from the Carrick Project (30 mins)
The aim will be to specifically address the issues of concern raised by the group.
Discussion of issues and themes (30 Mins)
Mid morning/afternoon break (15 mins)
Exploration of key themes - mismatch between staff and student perspectives, lecture attendance, changes to learning, changes to teaching, whole of curriculum implications. (45mins)
Small group will explore one or more themes in relation to:
Strategies and future scenarios ( 45 mins)
In groups, participants will explore strategies for using WBLT in different contexts and develop scenarios for what the student experience could look like in the future – with or without lectures.
Previous presentations
There have been no previous presentation of web-based lecture technologies or the themes emerging from the Project.
Details of the Project are available on the project web site: http://www.cpd.mq.edu.au/teaching/wblt/overview.htm
Gosper, M., McNeill, M., Woo, K., Phillips, R., Preston, G., Green, D. (2007). Web-based lecture recording technologies - Do students learn from them? Invited presentation at the Educause Australasia. Apr 29 - May 2, Melbourne, Australia.
McNeill, M., Woo, K., Gosper, M., Phillips, R., Preston, G., Green, D. (2007). Web-based lecture technologies - Advice from students. Paper presented at HERDSA '07. Jul 8-11, Adelaide, Australia.
Phillips, R., McNeill, M., Gosper, M., Woo, K., Preston, G., Green, D. (2007). Staff and student perspectives on web-based kecture technologies: Insights into the great divide. Paper presented at ASCILITE. Dec 2-5, Singapore.
Green. D., McNeill, M., Gosper, M., Woo, K., Phillips, R., Preston, G. (2008). Web based lecture technologies: A lens intensifying the changing roles of learners and lecturers. Paper to be presented at Ed-Media. Jun 31- Jul 4, Vienna, Austria.
Woo, K., Gosper, M., McNeill, M., Preston, G., Green, D., Phillips, R. (In Press). Web-based lecture technologies: Blurring the boundaries between face-to-face and distance learning. ALT-J.