Morning keynote speaker
Larry Johnson
Laurence F. Johnson, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium, an international not-for-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Its hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded colleges and universities in the world, as well as leading museums, key research centers, and some of the world's most forward-thinking companies. Johnson is an acknowledged expert on emerging technology and its impacts on society and education, as well as the topics of creativity, innovation, and how to think about the future.
Panel members
Prof Phillip Long
Phillip Long is Professor of Innovation and Educational Technology at the Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology at the University of Queensland, and Inaugural Director of the CEIT which is dedicated to research on learning environments that have the potential to innovate teaching, learning and creativity. This includes research, development, and dissemination of educational innovation through the strategic use of space (physical and virtual) and technology for learning and research collaboration. The Centre fosters a community of scholarship among technology innovators, and researchers within UQ, across Australasia and around the world. The Center includes students as full partners in the innovation cycle, supporting student participation in technology development at UQ as well as other institutions. Prof. Long’s current research interests focus on designing built pedagogies, physical and virtual to support active learning and collaboration.
Dr. Long’s professional activities include: the New Media Consortium Board (2006-09 and past chair), NMC Project Horizon (2005 to present) and chair of the Horizon Australia/New Zealand Edition (2008-9), 2006 Syllabus Conference Campus Host, 2006, the SAC Program Committee (2005-07, 06 Chair), Adobe Higher Education Advisory Board (2007), Steven’s Institute of Technology WebCampus board and many others. Dr. Long is also a Senior Associate with the non-profit TLT Group.
Dr. Long is a lapsed behavioral ecologist, having studied avian mating systems from the north slope of Alaska to the coast of Patagonia. His area of research was the evolution of mating systems and the biological bases for cooperation. He continues to enjoy birding and adding to his life list when his is not pursuing his other hobbies of sailing and running.
Dr Leesa Wheelahan
Leesa Wheelahan is currently a Senior Lecturer in Adult and Vocational Education, School of Education and Professional Studies. Her research interests include lifelong learning, tertiary education policy, recognition of prior learning, credit-transfer and student articulation between the sectors of post-compulsory education and training, and cross-sectoral relations between Australia's vocational education and training and higher education sectors. She writes regularly for Campus Review on these issues.
Afternoon keynote and panel member
Tim Cooper
Tim Cooper has spent over 16 years in the technology industry serving Public Sector customers including Higher and Lower Education, State and Local Government as well as Federal and Healthcare customers.
Tim has had various leadership positions in Sales, Marketing and Operations.
Over the last eight years, he has held leadership roles in support of Dell’s Higher Education business. These roles have included:
- Leading Dell’s U.S. Inside Sales team supporting Universities and Colleges for all their IT needs.
- Leading Dell’s U.S. Student Computing Initiatives working with Universities, Colleges and Campus stores to deliver customized, flexible solutions for students.
- Currently, Tim is responsible for identifying the IT needs of Dell’s global Education customers and deploying relevant solutions to address them.
Afternoon keynote presentation
Summary
Prof Kerri-Lee Krause
Professor Kerri-Lee Krause is Acting Pro Vice Chancellor (Quality and Student Outcomes), Chair in Higher Education and Director, Griffith Institute for Higher Education, Griffith University. Her research expertise and experience spans broadly across higher education policy areas, with a particular focus on the changing student experience, the changing nature of academic work and the implications of these changes for university policy and practice. She recently completed a national ALTC-funded project examining teaching-research linkages across the disciplines and at the institutional policy level. Kerri-Lee was also a member of the ALTC project, led by Dr Gregor Kennedy, on issues relating to educating the net generation. A significant part of her work involves providing policy and practical advice to university academics and policy-makers, on implications of her research for managing and responding to the changing student and academic staff experience in higher education.