IDEA 2006
Integrated e-learning environments
9 - 12 October 2006
Victoria University Flinders
Street Campus,
Melbourne Australia
Selected presentations are available online from the program pages for each of the IDEA 2006 events.
IDEA 2006
As a followup to the very successful IDEA 2004 and IDEA Summer 2005 events, the Australian Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) and Multimedia Victoria (MMV) are proud to announce IDEA 2006, a series of e-Learning events to be held at the Flinders Street Campus of Victoria University in Melbourne from 9 - 12 October, 2006.
Venue
The Victoria University Flinders Street Campus is located at 300 Flinders Street in the centre of Melbourne. It is opposite Flinders Street Station and is close to Southbank and Federation Square.
Purpose
There is growing recognition that Australians need access to quality online educational resources and services to support learning and research. To meet this demand, educational resources and services are increasingly being used beyond the bounds of their original organisations. The IDEA 2006 events will focus on common integration and interoperability solutions that enable these types of integrated e-learning environments.
The purpose of the IDEA 2006 series of events is to:
- Provide a national forum for discussing e-learning integration issues, solutions and technologies;
- Provide a showcase for Australian e-Learning projects;
- Share intelligence on emerging technologies that will impact learning and training;
- Foster strategic and business alliances between Australian e-learning projects; and
- Create ongoing communities of practice around common e-learning technologies.
Format
IDEA 2006 is a series of events spread over four days, each catering for slightly different audiences.
IDEA Lab
9 October 2006
IDEA Lab is a series of workshops aimed at implementors of e-learning
technology. The workshops provide technical updates on new e-learning
specifications.
Open e-Learning Forum
10 October 2006
A one day open forum on the infrastructure and
technologies underpinning integrated e-learning environments.
It is aimed at ICT managers responsible for
e-learning infrastructure and vendors wishing to integrate their services
into e-learning infrastructure.
Lunch will include ad-hoc demonstrations of e-learning
technologies. If you wish to reserve demonstration space during lunch,
please give details when you register for the forum, or contact
Johanna McKenzie (email: jmckenzie@adlaustralia.org)
IDEA Reception
evening of 10 October 2006
DEST and Multimedia Victoria are hosting a short reception following the
Open e-Learning Forum. Canapés and drinks will be
available.
e-Framework Update
11 October 2006
This one day workshop will provide an overview of the e-Framework for Education and
Research, show how the service-oriented approach has been
applied to the planning and development of technical infrastructure,
and provide an update on recent activities and priority areas for
development.
It is aimed at those involved in planning and deploying services for
higher education and research.
ICE Workshop
afternoon of 11 October 2006
This half day workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the Integrated Content Management System
(ICE) system for producing web, print, and other electronic
content using a word processor for authoring.
RUBRIC Reports
12 October 2006
The RUBRIC project is implementing best practice and assisting take-up
of institutional repository based research infrastructure in regional
Australian universities.
The purpose of this day is to allow RUBRIC project partners to report on
institutional repository best practices, solutions and issues. They
will also discuss the future of institutional repositories in
Australia.
The day is aimed at anyone following institutional repository
developments in the higher education sector of Australia, or anyone
interested in establishing an institutional repository for themselves.
If you would like more information about the content or objectives of the IDEA 2006 events please contact Dr Nigel Ward from the Australian ADL Partnership Lab (email: nward@adlaustralia.org). If you would like more information on registering for the event please contact Johanna McKenzie (email: jmckenzie@adlaustralia.org)
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