Dr Michael Crock (Co-convenor)
Director - Information Services
Flexible Learning and Access Services
Griffith University
Michael is Director - Information Services, Flexible Learning & Access Services in the Division of Information Services at Griffith University . He was appointed to this position in February, 1998.
Michael has extensive experience in senior management positions responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating:
Current applied research and development interests include projects concerned with the identification, quantification and benchmarking of effective solutions for interactive resource-based education and training and models for the effective commercialisation of teaching and learning intellectual property.
Darien Rossiter (Co-convenor)
Manager Strategic Initiatives,
Information Services
Griffith University
Darien has had over twenty years experience working in both the public and private sectors, in education, media, information and communication technology, public relations and business. Her diverse career path as a librarian, media producer, administrator, educational advisor, consultant and researcher, provides a breadth of knowledge and experience that informs her views on new learning approaches and management of organisational knowledge.
She has considerable experience initiating and managing large scale collaborative and commercial projects between higher education, corporate and government institutions, in the role of senior project manager, change manager and principal researcher.
Darien has held senior advisory and management positions at the Australian National University , Film Australia , and the Queensland University of Technology. She is currently the Manager, Strategic Initiatives, Information Services at Griffith University , Brisbane , Australia .
Darien is in the final stages of her PhD dissertation on the topic of "Organisational Capacity to Embed Innovation in Higher Education", undertaking extensive case study research across a number of Australian universities.
Professor Tom Reeves
Department of Instructional Technology,
College of Education,
The University of Georgia,
Athens, USA
Dr. Thomas C. Reeves is a Professor of Instructional Technology at The University of Georgia where he teaches program evaluation, multimedia design, and research courses. Since receiving his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1979, he has developed and evaluated numerous interactive multimedia programs for both education and training.
In addition to numerous presentations and workshops in the USA , he has been an invited speaker in other countries including Australia , Brazil , Bulgaria , Canada , China , England , Finland , Malaysia , the Netherlands , New Zealand , Peru , Portugal , Russia , Singapore , South Africa , Sweden , Switzerland , and Taiwan.
He is a past president of the Association for the Development of Computer-based Instructional Systems (ADCIS) and a former Fulbright Lecturer. In 1995, he was selected as one of the "Top 100" people in multimedia by Multimedia Producer magazine, and in 2003, he was the first person to receive the AACE Fellowship Award from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Bev Duncan
Personal Assistant to Director,
Information Services,
Griffith University
Jenny Barker
Information Services,
Griffith University
Mary Miller
University of Georgia
Mary Miller is the Peabody Awards Collection Cataloger in the Walter J. Brown Media Archives at the University of Georgia Libraries, one of the largest broadcasting archives in the country. She is engaged in the construction of a Web interface to allow access to rich metadata and digital copies of the programs in the Archives' collections. As a Master's student in the Department of Instructional Technology at The University of Georgia, she is pursuing a research interest inspired by her professional experiences: the use of video to facilitate multicultural awareness and anti-racist behavior.