Keynote speakers and presenters
Keynote speakers
Penny Carnaby - Chief Executive, National Librarian, National Library
Penny was appointed Chief Executive and National Librarian in January 2003. Before joining the National Library, Penny was University Librarian and Deputy Librarian at Macquarie University, Sydney, and had held several roles at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT).
Penny is currently one of three chief executives on the Minister for Communication and Information Technology's Digital Strategy Advisory Group, and Deputy Chair of the Minister of Education’s ICT Standing Committee for Education. In 2006, she was elected Chair of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries.
Penny is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. Penny’s professional interest is in creating national frameworks and strategies to enhance the flow of information to all parts of society.
Rob Abel - Ed.D., CEO, IMS Global Learning Consortium
Enhancing education now through a new generation of digital learning standards
Is interoperability just a tickbox for procurement or can it actually improve the educational experience for teachers, students, and all stakeholders?
The IMS Global Learning Consortium represents more than 130 organisations around the world dedicated to improving the accessibility, cost and quality of educational experiences through mutual cooperation.
In this presentation, IMS leader and well-known learning industry leader Rob Abel discusses the impact of new digital educational alternatives and how interoperability standards are enabling new innovation from educational publishers, social networking providers, learning management providers, and the leading multinational computing and administrative software platform providers.
Unfortunately Rob Abel was unable to attend this conference due to flight delays.
Dr Wayne Mackintosh - education specialist, e-learning and ICT Policy, Commonwealth of Learning
Square OER pegs and round reuse holes: tapping into Kiwi innovation for sustainable digital learning futures
The open education resource (OER) movement shows considerable potential to reduce cost, improve quality and widen access to educational opportunities. Still a burgeoning field, digital OERs are challenged by the reusability dilemma: the more pedagogy you embed in the resource - the less useful the learning content becomes in different contexts.
New Zealand's size and geographical remoteness has fostered a spirit of Kiwi ingenuity and OER will be no exception. Historically, the grey areas between contemporary technologies and local challenges often yield innovative solutions. Informed by the experiences of eXe, WikiEducator and a progressive strategic vision exemplified by Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand will be working collaboratively with local and international educators to build a sustainable digital ecosystem thus turning tomorrow's promise for OER into today's reality.
The lessons learned from self-organising systems in a digital world allude to the potential for us to return to the core value of education, namely to share knowledge freely. This will enable institutions to focus more effectively on what really matters - learning.
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Bruce Peoples - chair of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36
The role and importance of standards for digital learning resources
An introduction to the role and importance of standards for digital learning resources.
Bruce Peoples is a member of several international standards committees developing standards for information technologies.
He has over 17 years experience in designing and implementing complex training, performance, decision, and production support systems and has architected several advanced, intelligent systems. He leads a team of engineers researching and developing advanced technologies to enable systems to integrate and interoperate dynamically. He designed and led development of the first paperless media production system to mass-produce ‘modular’ digital information objects.
Presenters
Dr Norm Friesen
Standards for e-learning innovation?
Stream: Authoring
Time :10.30 - 11.00am
With the rapid pace of change on the world wide web, many standards have evolved in response to the needs of the medium. These are technical solutions that may not be officially sanctioned. Their legitimacy instead comes from widespread use.
Loose standards have arisen from these technologies and practices. RSS feeds, Open Courseware formats, and a range of other conventions and technologies are now widely employed in many learning applications and practices.
This presentation looks at the characteristics of these standards or conventions. We will discuss the place of these in the world of international technical standardisation and how to bridge the gap between divergent areas of standardisation and innovation.
About the presenter
Dr Norm Friesen is Canada Research chair in e-learning practices at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
He is the author of Re-Thinking E-Learning Research: Foundations, Methods and Practices (Peter Lang, 2008), and is co-editor of Phenomenology and Practice (www.phandpr.org), an open peer-reviewed journal.
Dr Friesen has a Masters degree from the Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Education from the University of Alberta.
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Lynn Benson
National digital heritage archive - a world's first
Stream: Using
Time :10.30 - 11.00am
Increasingly, New Zealand and the world’s cultural heritage is being created and stored in digital form. Institutions are being challenged to preserve and provide long-term access to digital heritage collections under their guardianship.
The National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) is the National Library of New Zealand’s technical and business solution to this challenge. The NDHA will provide ongoing preservation of and access to digital heritage collections under the guardianship of the National Library of New Zealand and Alexander Turnbull Library.
This presentation will outline the achievements of the NDHA programme to date and outline the goals of the programme over the next year.
About the presenter
Lynn Benson is currently the Manager of the NDHA Business Unit. She previously had roles in the Alexander Turnbull Library and Archives New Zealand working with a variety of archival collections, digital and physical.
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Pierre-Julien Guay
Referencing educational heritage and promoting reusability
Stream: Storing and finding
Time: 11.10 - 11.40am
Awareness of standards for sustaining reusability is a critical issue in the choice of e-learning platforms and content producers.
The publication of a LOM application profile (metadata for learning resources) was the starting point for projects referencing Québec Educational Heritage resources from schools through to university.
This presentation outlines the conditions necessary to successfully establish repositories for learning resources. It looks at the challenges managers face for referencing training, metadata harvesting and classification. It will examine the support needed for efficient population of metadata, and how to promote reuse of referenced resources.
About the presenter
Pierre-Julien Guay has headed La Vitrine Technologie-Éducation since its establishment in 1992. He is also the chairman of the Quebec Standards workgroup (GTN-Québec). He was previously the project leader for the production of computer-based educational material at the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS) du Québec.
Pierre-Julien Guay was a member of the governing board of the Lifelong Learning Society and the TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence. Since 2004, he has been active in the area of standards for learning, education and training. He is the Canadian delegate to the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 standards committee, and is the co-writer of the upcoming Metadata for Learning Resources ISO Standard.
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Christian Stracke
Let's accompany the digital learning resource the whole day
Stream: Lifecycle
Time: 10.30 - 11.00am
What standards support the development and realisation of learning resources? What is important for the needs-analysis? How should we focus concepts and design to better target groups and deliver learning objectives? And how do we ensure resources can be adapted and reused?
Christian Stracke will discuss what insights the lifecycle of a digital learning resource can offer these questions, including usage scenarios, target groups, learning styles and preferences and the challenges of diverse learning objectives, cultures and pre-conditions.
About the presenter
Christian Stracke has an international reputation as an expert in policies, standards, and quality for learning, education, and training; e-Learning; development cooperation; competence modeling and standardisation in HR.
He is vice-chair of the European Standardisation Committee and convener of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 Committee.
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Chelsea Hughes
Putting the search in research: the Kiwi Research Information Service
Stream: Lifecycle
Time: 2.00 - 3.00pm
The Kiwi Research Information Service (KRIS) provides online access to publicly available research produced by New Zealand institutions.
Developed in 2006 by the National Library and collaborators, including New Zealand’s universities and polytechnics, KRIS harvests information (metadata) from research repositories throughout New Zealand. No research is stored by KRIS.
The service promotes and showcases publicly funded research held in repositories throughout New Zealand.
Chelsea Hughes will tell the story of KRIS: how it was developed, born, how it works and what lies in the service’s future.
About the presenter
Chelsea Hughes is a digital service manager at the National Library of New Zealand. She manages the Kiwi Research Information Service and has been a professional librarian for nearly four years having previously worked in the US, England and New Zealand as a music-cataloguing librarian.
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Brent Thomas
Wrestling with metadata
Stream: Storing and finding
Time: 2.30 - 3.00pm
The Open Educational Resources project developed free courseware for New Zealand tertiary education providers.
In the process, the project created a model for future online open-source education projects. The team developed a metadata profile to enable users to search for learning materials, with particular attention to making it easy to use for a wide range of people.
In this presentation Brent Thomas will share ideas about metadata application profiles and models, and the process used to develop the application profile. He will discuss the technical process of packaging a learning object with metadata and how to develop a shared understanding of interoperable metadata application profiles.
The presentation will feature a comparison of the OER metadata application profile with other developments in New Zealand, and look at how to move to greater interoperability.
Aboout the presenter
Brent Thomas is a former graphic designer with ten years experience working in multimedia development and training.
He has a background in developing Flash and XHTML websites and implementing small Open Source projects.
Brent is the multimedia training advisor for the Open Polytechnic of NZ.
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Jenny Hunt
How e-learning is changing the delivery of adult literacy and numeracy
Stream: Using
Time: 2.30 - 3.00pm
The UK government’s e-learning strategy ‘Harnessing Technology’ has recognised the need for a more flexible approach to learning.
Jenny Hunt will discuss what has been learned during 10 years of e-learning for adults in the United Kingdom, including the introduction of online assessments and tests, innovation in learning resources and staff training in e-learning.
Jenny will look at the advantages e-learning offers this audience with examples of e-learning content, and training and resources created for providers.
About the presenter
Jenny Hunt is an e-learning strategist who has worked for the University for Industry and the BBC.
Jenny specialises in literacy and numeracy for adults, with a focus on e-learning. She has been involved in national programmes developing e-learning training for post 16 providers of education.
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Yong Kim
Cyber Home Learning System of South Korea
Time: 1.50 - 2.20pm
The Cyber Home Learning System is an e-learning service providing primary and secondary education to pupils.
The system is used by three million students and 30,000 teachers throughout Korea, offering high quality courses for students living in rural areas and remote islands and bridging the educational divide between regions.
Yong Kim will present the strategy and concept behind the Cyber Home Learning System and will introduce changes planned for the system's next generation.
About the presenter
Dr Yong Kim is a principal researcher for the Korea Education & Research Information Service (KERIS).
He has over 10 years experience in developing learning-related technology and researching e-learning teaching-learning strategies.
Yong Kim has a Ph.D. in Computer Science Education from the University of Korea.
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James Aitken and Helen Cooper
Collaborative partnerships with cultural and scientific institutions
Stream: Using
Time: 10.30 - 11.00am
Cultural and scientific institutions are bursting with education value and play a major role in the effective teaching and learning practice of our cultural heritage. However access and use of the digitised material has its barriers for education users.
The value of collections is diminished if teachers and students cannot access content or if the content lacks a clear educational context or narrative.
The project is a collaborative initiative of all Australian and New Zealand governments.
James Aitken and Helen Cooper will use this session to discuss:
About the presenters
Since 2001, The Le@rning Federation (TLF) has worked with cultural and scientific organisations to develop over 4500 items for all Australian and New Zealand schools.
James Aiken has worked in education for 10 years managing, producing and developing digital content.
James’ background is in project management. Most recently James was the manager, business development at Le@rning Federation Project – a government project to create and access content for all schools across Australian and New Zealand.
James has a degree in Biological Science and has recently completed a post graduate eBusiness degree at RMIT University in Melbourne.
Helen Cooper is the senior advisor digital content at the Ministry of Education. As a member of the e-Learning Group Helen is responsible for Te Pātaka Matihiko, Our Digital Storehouse (Digistore). Helen is the contact liaison officer for The Le@rning Federation initiative.
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Kirsty Leeder
Practical tips for creating reusable learning objects
Stream: Authoring
Time: 2.30 - 3.00pm
Many e-learning projects share the goal of reusability. But without applying basic principles the results often miss the mark.
Web technologies that have now been available for many years have enabled enrichment of the learner experience through blending e-learning activities, objects and resources.
This presentation will explore common client requirements that drive innovation in design and use of these web technologies. It will look at the cost savings of applying a branded learning style to a range of audiences through reusing learning objects, and it will discuss using multiple platforms to meet learning needs (whether through internet/intranet access, via an LMS, or standalone).
About the presenter
Kirsty Leeder is a senior instructional designer and project manager at Flexible Learning Network. A highly-experienced member of the team, she has successfully managed the design and implementation of learning and communications programmes in the tertiary education, private and public sectors in the UK, Europe and New Zealand. This included the NZ Open Educational Resources project where she was involved as project manager and instructional designer.
Using case studies we will highlight practical rules for project management, design and developing learning objects, and naming assets.
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Mike Collett
Matching curriculum to resources
Stream: Authoring
Time: 11.10 - 11.40am
A wide range of educational resources can be accessed online. Teachers and learners need to be able to search, browse, navigate and filter using familiar words and structures that match their curriculum.
Mike Collett will discuss how multilingual curriculum vocabularies are being used for:
- controlled term lists for metadata schemas
- navigation structures for user interfaces for tagging tools and portals
- providing additional localised curriculum information
- mappings between terms in other vocabularies.
- Matching curriculum to resources [PDF v1.4; 386kb]
About the presenter
Mike Collett has been actively involved in promoting open technical standards to support learning in UK, European and international groups for many years.
He is currently chair of the European committee for learning technology standards and represents the UK at the international ISO/IEC level.
He has experience of learning resource management and discovery in several projects. He is an expert on vocabulary management and is leading on the development of a European standard for a Curriculum Exchange Format.
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Lewis Brown, DigitalNZ
Digital content standards: A compelling driver for standards in digital content is the user
Stream: Usage
Time: 11.10 - 11.40am
An immediate and compelling driver for standards in digital content creation is the user. Incredibly cheap storage, mobile devices and super-abundant content give users the opportunity to delve into a deep and wide reservoir of New Zealand content to explore, connect and remix. But without planning for the next wave of user technologies, the products of our digitisation efforts are destined to sink to the bottom of that reservoir. The keys to successful digitisation planning are smart content selection, open standards and standard form licences. This presentation will discuss the work that DigitalNZ is doing to support others in their creation and management of digital content.
About the presenter
Lewis Brown has a background in policy and strategy development, with a particular focus in recent years on digital content issues. Lewis was a key project worker for consulting and writing the Digital Content Strategy, and more recently has worked on the Digital Strategy 2.0 and developing a digitisation framework. Lewis is currently working on the Digital New Zealand project.
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Dr Sandy Britain
How to model the content lifecycle
Stream: Lifecycle
Time: 11.10 - 11.40am
Despite recent advances in digital learning technologies and digital/online libraries, the mainstay resources used in school education are still the printed textbook and the printed handout. This paper examines some of the reasons why many schools have been slow in the uptake of digital learning resources. It describes recent work conducted for the Ministry of Education which involves modelling the tools, systems, standards and processes needed to support creating and effectively using digital content in the context of New Zealand schools.
The approach that has been used in this work is based on a service usage modelling (SUM) methodology developed as part of the international e-Framework. (www.e-framework.org). The presentation includes comments on the benefits and issues associated with this approach as well as conclusions in relation to digital content management for the schools' sector.
About the presenter
Dr Sandy Britain is a senior advisor to the Ministry of Education assisting with strategic development work around e-learning in NZ. Recently, Sandy has represented New Zealand interests in international work surrounding interoperability specifications and standards development and adoption. Before moving to New Zealand in 2004, Sandy worked closely with JISC and CETIS in the UK. He has published widely in the e-learning field.