2006 Seminars and Special Presentations

Current and Future Offerings and Directions of Staff Development.
Presentation by Geoff Crisp and James Burgess, CLPD, to HR Strategy Meeting, 29 September

Engaging the Learner with Collaborative Technologies including Wikis and Podcasts.
New technologies lunchtime session for staff presented by Allan Carrington.

Mentoring and Career Development: What's the evidence?
Presented by James Burgess at the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) seminar Mentoring and Career Development: What's the Relationship?

Real Time Online Learning: the Virtual Classroom.
New technologies lunchtime session for staff presented by Allan Carrington.

Harnessing the Power of E-Learning in Higher Education.
A live online webinar event with Professor Diana Laurillard, London Knowledge Lab, University of London
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Learncasting: Using educational podcasting for language teaching.
An online webinar presented by Graham Stanley, British Council, Spain, Allan Carrington, University of Adelaide, and Randy Meredith, Spring Arbor University, USA.

Audio streaming of lectures.
A lunchtime session presented by Dayle Hall.

Integrating Tradition and Technology. Diana Oblinger, Vice President for EDUCAUSE and the Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, led a seminar at the University of Adelaide on the important subject of integrating traditional learning and teaching with technology, sharing her ideas and experience and challenging our thinking.

Listen to the audio recording of the seminar .

Diana Oblinger is Vice President for EDUCAUSE and the Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Previously, Dr Oblinger served as the Vice President for information resources and the Chief Information Officer for the 16-campus University of North Carolina system and as a Senior Fellow for the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR). She was the Executive Director of Higher Education for Microsoft Corporation and led the Institute for Academic Technology for IBM. Dr Oblinger was on the faculty at Michigan State University and the University of Missouri - Columbia, where she also served as an academic dean. She is a graduate of Iowa State University.