Professional development through study tours, attending conferences, workshops and professional meetings

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In addition presenting at local and international conferences.

Knowledge management

2009, 5-6 August. “Knowledge Management Australia 2009: From Diverse Perspectives". Ark Group. Chrystal Palace, Luna Park, Sydney, Australia.

2009, March 27. “Equella Digital Object Management System Workshop”. The Learning Edge. Sydney, Australia.

2008, 6-8 February. “Australian ePortfolio Symposium 2008”. Australian ePortfolio Team. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Educational technology

2009, 18-19 March. “ACODE 49: Student expectation/experience using Web 2.0”. Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE). Victoria University and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

2008, 18-19 November. “ACODE 48: Emerging Technologies: implications for policy and practice”. Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE). University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.

2006, 4-8 December. “Sakai International Conference”. Atlanta, Georgia, US.

2006, 24-26 July. ”Moodle Conference”. Hosted by the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

2006 19-28 July. Conducted a study tour on the operations of a number of educational technology research institutes and centres. The London Knowledge Lab (LKL) and the London Centre for Leadership in Learning of the Institute of Education, University of London; The Institute for Educational Technology (IET); The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi); Computers and Learning Research Group in IET; User Lab in IET; Centre for the Study of Educational Technologies (CSET) in IET; The Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET ), Open University; eLINK research group and the Metadata research group, The Catholic University of Leuven.

2002, 15-23 July. Conducted a study tour on strategic directions and the operations of online learning at Institutes in online learning in Western Europe: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: Centre for ICT in Education (15 July); University of Twente, Netherlands : Development Institute for Knowledge, Education and Learning (DINKEL) (16 July); Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany: Distance Education in Developing Countries (17 and 18 July).; Catholic University Leuven, Belgium: eLINK, as well as EuroPACE (22 July); United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies [UNU/INTECH] Maastricht, Netherlands (23 July).

2002, February. "10th European Congress and Specialist Trade Fair for Educational and Information Technology (LearnTEC2002)" in Karlsruhe, Germany.

2001, 16-28 September. Conducted a study tour on online learning, video-conferencing, professional development of academic staff in educational technology, strategies for the wide diffusion of instructional technologies within the institute, as well as smart classrooms and staff training facilities in the USA: University of Washington, Washington State University, Oregon State University, University of Florida and Georgia State University.

2001, 21-25 May. "World Education Market (WEM)" in Vancouver, Canada.

1996, 17-22 June. "World Conference on Educational Hypermedia and Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA)" in Boston, USA.

1995, October. "Australian National Tele-centres Conference" in Bunbury, Western Australia on invitation by the coordinator, Ms Gay Short. The conference programme included visits to a number of tele-centres.

Managerial

2010, 3 February. “Cultural Competency Training Workshop”. Charles Sturt University. Presented by Wendy Nolan

2008, March. “Change Management workshop”. Presented by Hedy Bryant, Charles Sturt University

2007, 17 August. “Working with Indigenous Australians”. Charles Sturt University. Presented by Karen Kime

1992. “Communication for managers” P E Technikon (now integrated within Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University).

1991, October. Commissioned by the Rectorate of the Port Elizabeth Technikon (now integrated within Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) to investigate information systems for top and senior management at universities and polytechnics in Europe and the United Kingdom that included the University of Leuven in Belgium and the Imperial College in London.

1991, 26 June. “Team management and Leadership”. Dynamic Growth Training, Johannesburg.

1987, 21-23 June . “Project Management”. ISM (IBM South Africa), Port Elizabeth.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

2005, 25-28 September. “Apple University Consortium (AUC) Academic & Developers Conference”, Hobart, Australia.

2001, 4 September. "SAP eLearning Seminar". Johannesburg, South Africa.

1995, November. "Annual Conference of the New Zealand Computer Society". Wellington, New Zealand.

1995, October. "On-line Commerce". Brisbane, Australia.

1992, 16 March. “Fundamentals of HP-UX”. Hewlett Packard, Port Elizabeth.

1991, 15-17 July. “Joint Application Development (JAD) Leadership”. INFOMET, Port Elizabeth.

1990, 25-29 June and 1989, 25 September. “Structured Systems Analysis and Design”. INFOMET (a Business and Information Systems Methodology), Johannesburg.

1989, 9 January. “Oracle Programmers Workshop”. Knowledge Systems International, Johannesburg.

1988, 6-8 July. “Data Gathering and Analysis”. Don Gray Training, Johannesburg.

1988, 23-25 May. “SQL Language for SQL/DS Environment”. ISM (IBM South Africa), Port Elizabeth.

1983. “Programming with COBOL”. SANLAM. Bellville.

1978, January. “ASSEMBLER Programming”. SANLAM. Bellville.

Educational (general)

2009, 16-17 November. “ACODE 51: Online Assessment”. Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE). Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.

2009, 13-14 July. “ACODE 50: Lost in Space –Teaching and Learning Spaces”. Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE). The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

2006, 17 August. “Strategies for Supervising at a Distance workshop”. Charles Sturt University. Presented by Dr Christine Jennett.

2005, 1 December. “Course Review workshop”. Charles Sturt University.

2005, 3-7 July. “Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Annual Conference Higher Education in a Changing World”.Sydney, Australia.

2003. Workshop on “Learning-centered teaching” by Prof Lynne Hunt, the 2003 Australian Prime Minister's Teaching Award winner (of Edith Cowan University, Australia), University of Botswana.

1996, October. "Teaching Information Technology" in Dunedin, New Zealand.

 

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