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Queensland University of Technology |
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| Project Leader - Associate Professor Gillian Hallam Associate Professor Gillian Hallam is Course Coordinator of the Master of Information Management program offered by the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT. One of Associate Professor Hallam’s areas of specialisation is Professional Practice, with a deep interest in the ePortfolio as a tool to support students’ development of and reflection on professional skills and knowledge. Associate Professor Hallam has been a member of the QUT Student ePortfolio (SeP) reference group and has played a pivotal role in the piloting of the SeP system with postgraduate students. Project role and commitment: Associate Professor Hallam is Project Leader for the proposed project and will commit 60% of her time to leading the project. |
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| Professor David Gardiner Professor David Gardiner is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at QUT. Professor Gardiner has had, and retains, a strong and active involvement in the scholarship of teaching. He was appointed to the Carrick Institute Standing Committee on Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in 2006. He chairs QUT’s International Reference Group for Europe and the Americas and has knowledge of comparative activities in these jurisdictions. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the consortium that is undertaking the DEST commissioned project Developing a National Diploma Supplement and participated as a presenter at its invitational national workshop held in Melbourne on 3 May 2007. Project role and commitment: Professor Gardiner’s role in the Project will be to bring to it a sector-wide senior management perspective and to ensure that its direction and approach is consistent with developments in the National Diploma Supplement arena. Professor Gardiner will provide high-level strategic and timely input as he monitors national developments in the university sector over the coming months and suggests strategy, focus and intersections for the Project. |
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| Professor Tom Cochrane Professor Tom Cochrane is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support) at QUT. Structurally the position heads a Division which includes all IT, library and teaching and learning support services for the University. He serves ex-officio on all the academic governance committees of the University including Academic Board, and its Research and Innovation, and Teaching and Learning Committees. Currently Chair of QUT’s ePortfolio Reference group, Professor Cochrane has been the QUT Student ePortfolio Project Sponsor since 2002, when he was a key proponent of the development of a tool to support the integration of student experience. Project role and commitment: Professor Cochrane’s role within the QUT Student ePortfolio Project team draws on his expertise in championing the use of technology to improve student learning, and in advancing the University’s teaching and learning initiatives and support services. As Chair of the project’s steering committee, Professor Cochrane’s commitment will be as and when required. This is estimated to be 20 to 30 hours for the duration of the project. |
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| Mr Colin McCowan OAM Mr Col McCowan is a registered psychologist, teacher, and counsellor who has been Manager of the Careers & Employment service at QUT for the past 13 years. His Service at QUT has won two recent national awards for best practice and he himself won the 2004 National Award for Excellence in Career Counselling. He has undertaken three international consultancies for the countries of Bhutan and Oman. He brings enormous expertise to this collaborative team as a commentator in the careers field and as a driving force (with Ms Wendy Harper, QUT Intranet Services Manager) behind the very successful QUT Student ePortfolio. Project role and commitment: Mr McCowan’s role in the Project will be to provide expert commentaries on the case studies chosen for examination in the environmental scan. He is committed to one day per week. |
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| Ms Wendy Harper Ms Wendy Harper is the Project Leader of QUT's ePortfolio initiatives Student ePortfolio and Professional Staff ePortfolio, and is the Associate Director of the Teaching and Learning Support Services. Ms Harper has more than 20 years experience in the tertiary sector covering learning and teaching systems, IT infrastructure, project management, and systems development. Ms Harper's work in the field of ePortfolios has acquired international standing and she has been invited to speak both nationally and internationally in government, tertiary secondary fora. Project role and commitment: Ms Harper will provide strategic and practical leadership in the areas of IT infrastructure, ePortfolio engagement and Project Management method. She is committed to spend one day per week on the project. |
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Lynn McAllister |
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Ms Tracy Creagh |
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The University of New England (UNE) |
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| Professor Grant Harman FACE Grant Harman is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy (UNE). He is a higher education policy specialist who has undertaken major research and consulting projects for DEST, other Australian government agencies, and international bodies, including the World Bank, UNESCO and Education IDP. He has had extensive experience in international surveys of higher education developments and in studies of students, staff and other higher education stakeholders. Currently he is Project Manager for the DEST-funded study to develop a National Diploma Supplement that will develop a single agreed template for an Australian Diploma Supplement and make recommendations on implementation issues. Project role and commitment: Professor Harman’s role will be to inform the project with regard to likely outcomes from the National Diploma Supplement Project, particularly on relationships between ePortfolios and Diploma Supplements. He will contribute to the literature review, mapping the national and international context and identifying possible impacts of ePortfolios on Australian higher education. Professor Grant Harman is committed to give three days per month to the project. |
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| Professor Lynn Meek Lynn Meek is Professor and Director of the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy (UNE). Professor Meek is a leading higher education policy specialist with extensive experience in international and comparative studies of higher education policies, innovations and administrative structures. He has undertaken numerous consultancies and research projects for DEST, the NSW Department of Education and Training and the Victorian Department of Education. Currently Professor Meek is Co-Director of the DEST-funded study to develop a National Diploma Supplement that will develop a single agreed template for an Australian Diploma Supplement and make recommendations on implementation issues. Project role and commitment: Professor Lynn Meek’s role will be to inform the project with regard to likely outcomes from the National Diploma Supplement Project, particularly on relationships between ePortfolios and Diploma Supplements. He will contribute to mapping the national and international context and identifying possible impacts of ePortfolios on Australian higher education. Professor Meek can commit to two days per month on the project. |
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Dr Jeannet van der Lee |
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The University of Melbourne |
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| Professor Richard James Professor Richard James is the Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education (University of Melbourne). Professor James is presently Co-Director of the DEST National Diploma Supplement project. He is a leading higher education researcher into teaching and learning with principal research interests in quality assurance and evaluation, access and participation, the student experience, and students’ postcompulsory education choices. With CSHE colleagues, he has conducted extensive research into the changing character of student expectations and student engagement. Professor James brings to this project broad experience in teaching and educational administration in a variety of sectors including higher education, TAFE, adult education and secondary education. Project role and commitment: In addition to advising on the relationship between ePortfolios and the national diploma supplement along with UNE colleagues, Professor Richard James will play a role in examining the growing links between ePortfolios and the assessment of student learning and the associated issues of verification and authentication. Professor James is able to contribute two days per month to the ePortfolio project. |
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| Ms Claire Brooks Ms Claire Brooks is an Educational Designer at The University of Melbourne and has 15 years experience in teaching, management and student support roles in online, hybrid and distance education in the tertiary sector across a range of vocational, community and higher education institutions.She has a particular interest in new technologies, their application to teaching and learning, organisational change,and academic development. She has worked on a number of institutional, national and international learning innovation projects. As well as other innovative learning projects, she was the educational designer and project manager for the award winning Postgraduate Essentials online course and community (ASCILITE 2005, Norman Curry 2005). The next phase of this program for completing research higher degree students includes an eportfolio component. Project role and commitment: Ms Brooks' role will be as a researcher and she is available to the project for 2 days per week. |
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Dr Gregor Kennedy |
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University of Wollongong |
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| Professor Sandra Wills Professor Sandra Wills is Director of CEDIR, Centre for Educational Development & Interactive Resources, at the University of Wollongong. CEDIR is a 50 person centre responsible for both academic development and eLearning. A national eLearning leader, she has spearheaded the development of the University of Wollongong’s eLearning Strategic Plan, as well as the eTeaching Business Plan 2005-2010 which included the roll out of an ePortfolio system in 2006, first piloted in 2001 by Sarah Lambert. She is an experienced collaborator on national projects and is involved in a number of Carrick grants, including being Project Leader for Project EnRoLE with four other universities. Project role and commitment: In addition to ensuring that Sarah Lambert has the release to participate fully in the project as the UOW representative, Professor Wills will assist the team with high level project planning and development of strategic policies for ePortfolio. She also has an interest in assisting the project to scope academic development strategies for ePortfolio. Professor Wills is able to contribute one day per month to the ePortfolio project. |
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| Ms Sarah Lambert Ms Sarah Lambert is Manager, Learning Design with CEDIR, Centre for Educational Design and Interactive Resources at the University of Wollongong. She is also Project Manager for the university’s student ePortfolio project. Ms Lambert is responsible for supporting staff in all eTeaching technologies and developing innovative eTeaching solutions for staff as part of annual service agreements with faculties. She has been led the campus-wide implementation of an ePortfolio tool for University of Wollongong students as part of a successful Teaching and Learning Performance Fund project. Project role and commitment Ms Lambert will play a role in the contextualisation of issues and in the collection and analysis of research data to map current ePortfolio activity in Australian and overseas. She is able to commit 3 days a month to the project. |
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Centre for Recording Achievement, UK |
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| Rob Ward Rob Ward is the Director of the Centre for Recording Achievement, a national network organisation and registered educational charity based in the UK. As an Associate Centre of the Higher Education Academy, CRA leads work on behalf of the Academy on supporting the implementation of Personal Development Planning and ePortfolio practice. Rob is a member of the National Progress Files Implementation Group (PFIG) and was a member of the initial Scoping Group on 'Measuring and Recording Student Achievement'. He led the CRA contribution to the National Coordination Team on Student Employability (ESECT), and was formerly a Fellow of the National Institute of Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC). With others, he currently facilitates Cohort IV of the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research, and coordinates the CRA work on the UK National Teaching Fellowship Project 'National Action Research Network on Researching and Evaluating Personal Development Planning and ePortfolio.' |
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Project Evaluator |
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University of Nottingham |
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Associate Professor Angela Smallwood |
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