North American Forum Programme

Day 1 - Friday, 12 March 2004
MORNING SESSION
9.00 - 9.10	Welcome from the Co-convenors Michael Crock and Darien Rossiter
9.10 - 9.15	Welcome from the e-Agenda 2004 Patron Professor Glyn Davis, Vice Chancellor and President, Griffith University
9.15 - 9.30	Icebreaker Introductions Session Chair – Tom Reeves	Who you are and your number one challenge or opportunity
9.30 - 10.00	Opening Keynote Session Chair – Tom Reeves What makes you think they are really learning? – Tom Reeves
10.00 - 10.30	Breakout Discussion Groups Session Chair - Michael Crock Facilitator Christine Geith (Education) Janise Richards (Industry) Bruce Callow (Government)	Three facilitated discussion groups of seven to eight participants. Each group is to identify three key e-Learning issues from government, education and industry sector perspective to report back to the Forum.
10.30 - 10.45	Report Back on Group Discussions Session Chair - Michael Crock Reporter Joan Lippincott Vinod Chachra Tamara Sumner	Each group has five minutes to report back on the three key issues from their group.
10.45 - 11.00	MORNING TEA
11.00 - 12.30	Ten Minutes Presentations and Angel/Devil Critiques Bracket One: Session Chair – Darien Rossiter Topic and Presenter Success in integrated business process outsourcing – Bill Kline Inertia as a barrier to implementation of an e-Learning strategy focused on business needs – Richard Carter The importance of e-Learning policies – Shirley Waterhouse ‘Angel’ Critique (five to seven minutes) – Scott Campbell ‘Devil’ Critique (five to seven minutes) – Tamara Sumner Bracket Two : Session Chair – Tom Reeves Topic and Presenter Digital libraries and academic efficiencies – Tamara Sumner How can we capture and enrich knowledge? – Joe Mitchell Linking and distributing layered metadata and linked information with e-content– Jack Blount ‘Angel’ Critique (five to seven minutes) – Joan Lippincott ‘Devil’ Critique (five to seven minutes) – Clark Quinn
12.30 - 2.00	LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION
2.00 - 3.30	Ten Minutes Presentations and Angel/Devil Critiques Bracket Three: Session Chair – Mary Miller Topic and Presenter Can we sustain our distance learning faculty under the current model? – Sally Johnstone Accountability for e-Learning – Richard Hezel Overcoming faculty overload in e-Learning – Christine Geith ‘Angel’ Critique ( 5- 7 minutes) – Shirley Waterhouse ‘Devil’ Critique (5- 7 minutes) – Roberto Bamberger Bracket Four: Session Chair – Darien Rossiter Topic and Presenter Towards an e-Learning ecology – Shirley Alexander Design for doing: supporting how people really act in the world – Clark Quinn Leveraging the natural capabilities of humans and computers in an e-Learning and e-Teaching environment – Vinod Chachra ‘Angel’ Critique (five to seven minutes) – Janise Richards ‘Devil” Critique (five to seven minutes) – Bruce Callow
3.30 -3.45	AFTERNOON TEA
3.45 - 4.45	Reality Check – Three Breakout Groups (self-selected) Session Chair – Michael Crock Facilitator Rick Carter Richard Hezel Susan Metros	The task for each group is to confirm three mission critical e-Learning e-Training issues from government, education and industry sector perspective to report back to the forum
4.45 -5.00	Report Back on Group Discussions Reporters to be chosen by the group	Each group has five minutes to report back on the three key issues from their group
5.00 - 7.00	AFTERNOON BREAK
EVENING SESSION
7.00 - 7.45	Pre Dinner Drinks with Soapbox Rebuttals and Critiques Evening Host – Tom Reeves Rebuttals and Critiques – Tom Reeves, Michael Crock, Darien Rossiter, Mary Miller Topic and Presenter Information literacy and technology ‘fluency’ – Joan Lippincott Issues without notice from the floor	Soapbox presenters five minutes each
7.45 - 10.00	FORUM DINNER
	Dinner speakers David Wiley – Scalability, Sociability, and Learning Susan Metros – Engaged Electronic Learning

Day 2 - Saturday, 13 March 2004
MORNING SESSION
9.00 - 9.10	Welcome and Opening Instructions Co-convenor – Michael Crock
9.10 -10.30	Matrix Activity	Each participant has three minutes to articulate their preference for a topic / issue on the matrix. Participants to indicate whether they would like to work solo or collaboratively, and who are the key stakeholders required for input.
10.30–11.00	MORNING TEA – extended break for collaboration task discussion
11.00 - 11.45	Matrix Update Activity Facilitator – Michael Crock Review of topics and commitments. Final instructions.
11.45 -12.15	Closing Keynote Roberto Bamberger
12.15 - 12.30	Farewell from e-Agenda Deputy Patron Professor Ian O’Connor, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Deputy President, Griffith University Forum Close Michael Crock and Darien Rossiter
12.30 - 1.30	LUNCH
1.30	Departure