Mr Allan Carrington

Biography/ Background

Allan is available on SKYPE and iChat/AIM and his username is:allansyd

Allan is a Learning Designer with the Centre for Learning and Professional Development (CLPD)  As well, in May 2009 Apple Australia recognised Allan's educational excellence and leadership and invited him to become an Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE)   Apple Distinguished Educators are members of a select group of K-12 and Higher Education professionals possessing an identified expertise in educational technology leadership. This group of over 1500 educators spans the globe with membership in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Latin America, and Asia. The ADE program seeks to recognize educators who integrate technology into the curricula and their learning environments in meaningful ways and enhance the professional development of these exemplary educators. Allan actively participates in a community of educators to exchange experiences, projects and ideas. Apple in turn empowers these education advocates with knowledge of Apple technologies and solutions.

Allan has a background in printing, publishing, web development and educational multimedia. He has two Masters Degrees - one in Interactive Multimedia and the other in Online Education. As well he has worked in learning and teaching in the VET sector and has a Cert IV in Assessment and Workplace Training. Allan has led schools (courses) in Hawaii and Texas USA, as well as Paraguay. He has taught in communications, marketing and research, print production and using the Internet for education. Allan has extensive experience in online collaboration and facilitation.

In January 2008 Allan was awarded a scholarship from the Apple University Consortium (AUC) to attend the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco USA and again in January 2009.

Allan has a particular interest in real time (synchronous) elearning using virtual classrooms and disruptive social networking technologies used for learning and teaching such as podcasting, blogs and wikis.

Qualifications

MEd (major in Online Education) M.I.M., Dip.Tech. (Mgt), Cert.IV AWT

Research Interests

Educational Podcasting Overview:

In October 2005 he was invited by EDUCAUSE to be part of the team that pioneered podcasting at the International Conference in Orlando Florida USA. Allan blogged and podcast this trip and the blog site is available online. This experience prompted Allan to build a Model for Podcasting Educational Conferences. In December 2006 he lead a podcasting project to capture the knowledge and passion of two Australian educational conferences. He and three other learning designers from Charles Sturt University recorded and published over 60 podcasts from ASCILITE 2006 and LAMS 2006 which were held in Sydney. They left a rich inheritance of knowledge on the blog sites cited in the conference papers and presentations section below and showed that podcasting adds important unique content to educational conferencing. In Dec 2007 Allan led a simialr podcasting project for ASCILITE in Singapore where they trialled the Wimba Voicetools to manage the podcast episodes and enable interactive responses from participants.

This model of podcasting conferences, which have educational outcomes, has interested many people and Apple Australia has published a profile called “Breaking with tradition – profiles in success: The University of Adelaide”.

Conference Podcasting Programs

5-9/01/09 Macworld for Educators Podcast Program San Francisco Educational leaders, presenters and conference participants were interviewed and published to the Podcast Programme Blog Website

8-10/12/08 Podcast Program for Create World 2008 Brisbane  Educational leaders, presenters and conference participants were interviewed and published to the Podcast Programme Blog Website

30/11-3/12/08 ASCILITE 2008 Melbourne Conference Podcasting Project. Educational leaders, presenters and conference participants were interviewed and published to the Podcast Programme Website

2-5/12/07 ASCILITE 2007 Singapore Conference Podcasting Project. Educational leaders, presenters and conference participants were interviewed and published to the Podcast Programme Website

3-6/12/06 ASCILITE 2006 Conference Podcasting Project. Educational leaders, presenters and conference participants were interviewed and published to the ASCILITE Conference Podcast Blog Site.

7-8/12/06 LAMS 2006 Conference Podcasting Project. Educational leaders, presenters and conference participants were interviewed and published to the LAMS Conference Podcast Blog Site.

Publications

2-5/12/07 Allan Carrington & Ian Green "Just in Time Teaching (JiTT) revisited: Using e-assessment and rapid elearning to empower face-to-face teaching" Poster Presentation for ASCILITE 2007 held in Singapore

20/04/07 Tim Neumann and Allan Carrington "A mass collaboration approach to e-learning - Multiple Venue Production" Asociation for Learning Technology (ALT) Online Newsletter News Digest 129

Baron, J, Carrington, A, Kavanagh, S, Kindley, R, and Maier, H. (2004). Learn Outside the Box: Reframing the Questions by Combining Scenario-Based Learning with Online Role Play/Simulation. The Best Practices in e-Learning Online Conference 2004, Rod Corbett, University of Calgary, 23-27 August. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~corbett/conference/ [accessed 26/10/05] http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~calgary/ [accessed 26/10/05]

Kavanagh, S., Baron, J. and Carrington, A. (2004) Pushing the collaborative envelope: a virtual classroom for clinical practice. In R. Atkinson, C. McBeath, D. Jonas-Dwyer and R. Phillips (eds), Beyond the comfort zone: proceedings of the 21st ASCILITE Conference (pp 485-492). Perth, 5-8 December. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/kavanagh.html

Carrington, Allan. (2004). Higher order learning by doing:The interactive effect between scenario-based learning and simulations. First Australian Moodle Moot (conference). University of Adelaide, 6-7 November.

Community Engagement

22/04/08 "The Power of Voice - An introduction to Wimba voice tools" University of Adelaide Faculty Professional Development series.  Webinar presentation. Slide content

27/02/09 "Can a Virtual Classroom Help Learning?" University of Adelaide Faculty Professional Development series.  Face-to-face presentation. Slide content

08/10/08 "Think Sideways and Innovate - Using Wimba Voice Presentation Board for Audio Narrated presentations"  The Wimba Distinguished Lectures Online series Audio Narrated Voiceboard and slide content

10/01/08 "The Role of Online Education at the University of Adelaide" Face to Face presentation at the University of the Pacific San Francisco USA Slide content

21/09/07 "Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants ... Do They Really Think Differently?"  Face-to-Face presentation at the University of Tennessee Health Science Centre TN USA. Slide content

16-17/08/07 "From Content-centred to Activity-centred Design". eLearning Guild's Online Forums webinar.  Slide content

8/07 "Educational Podcasting: A Quiet Grassroots Revolution" Face-to-face conference presentation and workshop at Southbank Brisbane. Presentation slides and workshop slides

26/10/06 An Articulate audio narrated learning module: “Emerging Technologies From Podcasting to Learncasting” Online resources for the learning module are bookmarked at http://del.icio.us/AllanADL/module01 The multimedia flash driven learning module can be found at
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/online/learningmodules/podlearning/player.html 

29/09/06 TAFE SA E-dayz Conference Presentation. “From Podcasting to Learncasting. From pedagogy to Podagogy”. Online resources for the presentation are bookmarked at http://del.icio.us/allanadl/edayz290906  Slide content can be found at: http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/edayz290906/

28/09/06 “MyUni Learning Design Workshop” A professional development seminar for the staff of the university.  Online resources for the seminar are bookmarked at http://del.icio.us/AllanADL/POW280906 Slide content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/seminar070906/

07/09/06 “Collaborative Technology Seminar: Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts, Social Bookmarking … and all that stuff!” A professional development seminar for the staff of the university.  Online resources for the seminar are bookmarked at http://del.icio.us/AllanADL/Seminar070906 Slide content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/seminar070906/

13/07/06 "Developing Tomorrow's Leaders with Today's Technology: Using real time and store and forward teaching and learning technologies to improve learning outcomes" An online presentation given to an OPSM Staff Trainer Development Workshop in Sydney NSW. Content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/opsm071306/

13/07/06 "Using Virtual Classrooms to Connect, Encourage, Engage and Educate: Lessons learnt from MVPs ... so far!" An online webinar given to the Doctoral Residency at Regent University in Virginia Beach USA. Content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/regent071306/index.html

21/03/06 "Harnessing the Power of E-Learning in Higher Education". Produced and facilitated in live online webinar event with Professor Diana Laurillard of the University of London. This was a major online event involving 41 universities with 450+ people online simultaneously using virtual classroom software . Information about this event can be found at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/resources/seminars/2006/harness_elearning/

05/03/06 Produced and Facilitated a Webinar with the Webhead Online Community of ESL Teachers Worldwide. "Learncasting: Podagogy and Language Learning. Content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/ESL_Webinar/index.html

31/10/05 Face to Face Presentation given at the London Knowledge Lab of the University of London. Content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/London311005/

02/09/05 Produced and Facilitated a Webinar with Charles Darwin University. "Educating the Net Generation: Remote and Indigenous Perspectives." Content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/CDUwebinar/

05 to 08/05 Educating the Net Generation Webinar Series. Produced and facilitated in a three part live online event. 14 universities and up to 250 people were participating online with presenters from EDUCAUSE USA http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/resources/seminars/2005/netgen/

• 27/05/05 Webinar #1 "Is it Age or IT: Understanding the Net Generation Learner" Presenter: Diana Laurillard Exec VP of EDUCAUSE USA. Presentation content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/webinar1/
• 08/07/05 Webinar #2 "The Student's Perspective" Presenter: Carie Windham Student at North Carolina State University Presentation content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/webinar2/
• 19/08/05 Webinar #3 "Developing Faculty for the Net Generation" Presenters: Anne Moore, Shelli Fowler and John Moore from Virginia Tech University USA Presentation content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/webinar3/
• A major report on this webinar series evaluating the development, management and pedagogy of this webinar series is available online. "Educating the Net Generation Webinar Series: An exemplar of using synchronous eLearning events called Multiple Venue Presentations for Professional Development" Found at URL http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/resources/seminars/2005/netgen/NetGenSeminarReport.pdf

06/06/05 Produced and co-facilitated a Webinar with Sheila Kavannagh of the Discipline of Nursing University of Adelaide and Dr Randall Kindley CEO the Performance Group USA and Dr Cindy Russell the University of Tennessee USA at the VET Quality Forum Conference in Adelaide. Content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/VETForum/index.html

06/05/05 Presented in a Webinar with the University of London A Report on the Net Generation MVP Series. Content can be found at http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/LondonMay05/

13/12/04 New Instructional Design ... is it really? Sheila Kavanagh OAM (Dept of Clinical Nursing) and Allan Carrington (CLPD) led this interactive workshop in Adelaide, with Dr Randall Kindley (The Performance Group) live from Minneapolis USA. A blended learning webinar and workshop for educators, managers and trainers. This event was run again on 17/2/05 as part of the Illinois Online Conference 2005. http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/resources/seminars/2005/NID_Feb05.html

11/5/04 Assessment for learning: A multimedia learning resource. Allan Carrington, Learning and Teaching Development Unit, LTDU Current Issues in Higher Education seminar http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/resources/seminars/2004/AssessmentForLearning/

Carrington, Allan and Kavannagh, Sheila. (2004). Facilitation of a keynote webcast from the USA. Australian and New Zealand Burns Association Annual Scientific Meeting. Adelaide, 8 September.

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009