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Research Question 2a

'What would you list among the established technologies that some institutions are using that all Australasian post-compulsory educational institutions should be using broadly today to support or enhance teaching, learning, or creative expression?

STATUS: Work on this question was completed at the July 11 meeting in Melbourne. We are no longer soliciting entries on this question.

The items below, which represent the raw data for this research question, were generated by the Advisory Board and then ranked at the meeting in Melbourne July, 11, 2008, and a visual record was captured. -- See the results.



  • Collaboration Webs (2008 Horizon Report) In today’s workplace, be it in education or industry, it is not unusual for a typical work week to include a virtual meeting or conference. Tools to support collaborative online work are easy to find and uncomplicated to use. Any networked computer can serve as a multi-function videoconference room, a gateway to a gathering in a virtual world, or a joint workstation where several people can author the same documents together. Virtual collaboration has been made increasingly seamless by a host of complimentary developments in networking infrastructure, social networking tools, web applications, and collaborative workspaces. http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/collaboration-webs/
  • Public broadcasting via IP networks like Teacher TV in YouTube (UK based)?
  • Real podcasting/ vodcasting - which uses the subscription model for podcasting more widely (iTunes), for staff and students. Replace text-based feedback, instructions with audio
  • lecture recording - isn't everyone already offering this as an institutional service? (how much does this relate to the demography of an institution. eg UNSW , podcasting most requested service - function of mobility as campus needs to be traveled to and demographic breakdown).
  • Mobile Learning - Use of Mobile Learning in learning and teaching, as well as student administration, mobile devices and applications; e,g PDAs used in areas such as health
  • Blogs & Wikis - used for specific courses but every student should get both an email address and a blog, default as public http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au
  • Cloud-based applications - RMIT looking at Google Apps; MacQuarie using Google Mail. Zoho
  • Cheap or free server mirroring - BlueHost and UCTV (Uni of Canterbury), Archive.org with Blip.tv
  • Distributed Access to Core Applications - federated authentication to secured access to resources (applications)
  • Collaborative Document creation - For example Google applications, Wikis etc ability for groups to edit and work on documents collaboratively.
  • Video capture on-demand - luke warm feelings...depends on pedagogical intent
  • copyright and activity handling in a digital world - institutions are different in broad in their handling of this.
  • Creative Commons licensing - all institutions should have a set of CC licenses for content and be encouraged use them for staff and students
  • open source and the extensibility aspects in particular - the ability to deliver very precise and local tools within the aegis of the primary LMS's. heavily modifying wordpress etc. wiki's blogs etc
  • Long-term digital archiving of community created content - research and education - Fedora implementations, DSpace implementations represent single point examples but need to be much more widely implemented
  • social bookmarking - del.icio.us, Bb scholar. How students in the same area but with different interests will search and find related things in different ways that others wouldnt necessarily find. Touching on the social operating system concepts in an early manner. Although used by many professional networks, is not being used for teaching and learning
  • Grassroots Media / Collective resource sharing - For example the use of social bookmarking, pictures (http://www.flickr.com/) , movies (youtube). Tagging and sharing learning assets
  • risk and equity - how institutions deal with equity and risk issues when broader internet technologies are used and no guarantee of availability, university exposed to risk. Balance of opportunities. arranging contractual arrangements as mitigation, ties in with the open and extensible.
  • Live Virtual Meeting spaces - for example elluminate, adobe connect etc these allow you to have group chat, shared applications, recording synchronous virtual meeting spaces that can be used as virtual classrooms.
  • Virtual worlds to go back on - tool exists but noone knows how to use it amongst academic staff. Use of 3D spaces not only for PD, but for delivery to students. Ysed to some extent but should be used more widely. RMIT SecondLife, Koru, Jokaydia
  • LMS, CMS systems in common use
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