[LINK] Blended Delivery Expo in Canberra 16 August 2010

[Tom Worthington]

A "Blended Delivery Expo" will be held at the Ian Ross Seminar Room, 
College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National 
University, Canberra, 2:00pm, 16 August 2010: 
<https://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/more/SID/2608>.

The ANU is training up its engineering and IT staff (including me) on 
how to teach engineering using a combination of face to face classes and 
online tools. This is being funded by the Australian Government under a 
program announced by the Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, 11 
December, 2008: 
<http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/media/pressrel/UUCS6/upload_binary/uucs60.pdf>.


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     Blended Delivery Expo
     Kim Blackmore (SoE, CECS, ANU)
     EDUCATION INNOVATION SERIES

     DATE: 2010-08-16
     TIME: 14:00:00 - 15:00:00
     LOCATION: Ian Ross Seminar Room: 
<http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/displaybldg.asp?no=31>
     CONTACT: kim.blackmore at anu.edu.au

     ABSTRACT:
     You have heard of the Hubs and Spokes project*, and blended 
delivery of courses, but what does it really mean? In this talk we'll 
take a look through the design of blended delivery courses run so far 
under the Hubs and Spokes project, and also at the courses under 
development for delivery in 2011.
     BIO:
     Kim Blackmore is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, 
Coordinator of the CECS Flexible Learning Unit, and leader of the Hubs 
and Spokes subproject in blended delivery.

* "The Engineering Hubs and Spokes Project – Institutional Cooperation 
in Educational Design and Delivery, Kim Blackmore, Paul Compston, Lauren 
Kane, Diana Quinn, David Cropley, for Ascilite 2010:
<http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Kim.Blackmore/papers/Ascilite2010.pdf>
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, The
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