[LINK] Mentored and Collaborative e-Learning for Postgraduate Professional Education

[Tom Worthington]

I am giving a free seminar on how I am running a masters course at the
ANU which the students can do on their smart phones. All welcome, no
need to book, just turn up. Draft notes and slides for the talk are at: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/collaborative_e_learning/>.

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DCS SEMINAR SERIES

Mentored and Collaborative e-Learning for Postgraduate Professional
Education
Tom Worthington (DCS, ANU)
<https://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/showone.pl?SID=924>

DATE: 2009-08-27
TIME: 16:00:00 - 17:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101
<http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=n101,+computer+science+and+information+technology+building&sll=-35.26591,149.120865&sspn=0.0219,0.024462&ie=UTF8&cd=1&t=h&z=15&iwloc=A>

ABSTRACT:
The first globally accredited Green ICT course for computer
professionals commenced in January 2009. The course uses Moodle to teach
how to measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sponsored by the
Australian Computer Society as part of an international program for
professional education, the course is also now run at the masters level
by the Australian National University.

Course designer Tom Worthington discusses how the course uses e-learning
with mentored and collaborative techniques and how it it has worked with
three cohorts of students from around the world. He also discusses the
process of having a course approved by Australia's leading university,
with no prerequisites, no lectures, no examinations, all open source
content and able to be conducted via a mobile phone. Some suggestions
will be made for better integration of e-learning with traditional
educational environments and possible future technologies such as Google
Wave.

See also: * Previous presentation "Learning to lower costs and carbon
emissions with ICT":
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/green_it_social_networking>

* ANU Course description: <http://cs.anu.edu.au/Student/comp7310>

BIO:
Tom Worthington is an independent IT consultant and an Adjunct Senior
Lecturer at the Australian National University. He has been an expert
witness in several court cases involving computer issues. After a career
in IT policy with the federal government, he was elected a Fellow of the
Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the development of
public Internet policy in Australia.

Tom teaches the design of web sites, e-commerce and professional ethics
at the ANU. He designed the Australian Computer Society's Green ICT
Strategies course.
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Tom Worthington FACS HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Lecturer, The Australian National University t: 0261259654
Computer Science http://cs.anu.edu.au/people.php?StaffID=140274