Posts By Tom Worthington

Wikis for Vocational Education

Greetings from the second day of Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberra at the University of Canberra. This afternoon’s session on “Wikis for Vocational Education” is being podcast by “Talking VTE”. Leigh Blackall mentioned Making the Invisible Hand Visible. The Case for Dialogue About Academic Capitalism by Susan Awbrey. One institution mentioned which maintains a mixRead… Read more »

Wikis for Vocational Education

Greetings from the second day of Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberra at the University of Canberra. This afternoon’s session on “Wikis for Vocational Education” is being podcast by “Talking VTE”. Leigh Blackall mentioned Making the Invisible Hand Visible. The Case for Dialogue About Academic Capitalism by Susan Awbrey. One institution mentioned which maintains a mixRead… Read more »

Do your PHD through Wikiversity

In the last session of Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberraat the University of Canberra Leigh Blackall demonstrated how he was using Wikiversity for his PhD. I was sceptical as to the value of this and if it would be accepted by formal university processes. Leigh pointed out that there were several Examples of PhDs usingRead… Read more »

eLearning Services for Flood Recovery

eLearning Services at the Queensland Department of Education and Training has made ‘virtual classroom’ spaces available for students where the floods have disrupted normal classes.Maths, English & Science materials are provided, including:Resources – self-paced digital learning resources by year level Activities – self-paced structured lessons by year level Programs – Original post

Wikis for Education

The second session at Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberrais on “Wikis for Education”. This is a topic I did not think I knew much about, but realised I had run two courses were I got the students to edit the Wikipedia, one is 2007 was Writing for the Web for Local Government and the otherRead… Read more »

Recent Changes Camp 2011 Canberra

Greetings from Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberraat the University of Canberra, an informal symposium on anything to do with Wikis. There are 21 of us at the event. About a third are from the university, most of the others are from other Canberra universities. There are also some from interstate and overseas.We are in theRead… Read more »

ANU Education Innovation Series

A series of free Education Innovation Workshops is being run during February 2011, by the Educational Development Group, College of Engineering & Computer Science at the Australian National University. These are hands-on sessions intended for those developing courses with ANU’s “Wattle” (Moodle based) Learning Management System. Priority will be given to ANU Engineering and ITRead… Read more »

Canberra 2030 Planning Report

On 16 October 2010 I attended a Canberra 2030 “Time to Talk Workshop” workshop. The ACT Government has now released an outcomes report on these consultations. Unfortunately the ACT Government has only provided the report as large PDF (3.42MB) and Text Format (4.52MB) files. The report is not provided in an easy to download andRead… Read more »