Education ICT Planning Day

3 May, 2007

Summary

The Education ICT Planning day focussed on how Monash should be conducting Education in three years time, and what gaps there are in Monash’s current environment and practice towards that aim.

Outcomes

The following targets were progressed on the day:

A strategic roadmap of how Monash should develop its pedagogy and use of technology to best support its long term objectives in relation to the development and delivery of education;
A refined Education Technology Framework that provides a framework for the strategic roadmap and its implementation;
Suggestions for specific capital project proposals for 2008 from the strategic roadmap.

Background

Monash University conducted a one-day planning seminar, to review the issues and opportunities in technology-supported education at Monash. Monash has adopted a multi-campus approach that emphasises distinct strengths at each campus. At the same time, Monash’s international strategy describes “One Monash” as an environment where any individual or group can collaborate together without barriers of distance or technology.

These factors provide unique challenges in adopting a consistent and yet locally relevant approach to teaching. The planning day will investigate opportunities to overcome these challenges through improved processes and improved technology support in the planning, development and delivery of teaching and learning.

Guest speakers

In addition to the Vice-Chancellor and President, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Education), Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (International) and Education leaders from around Monash, we were fortunate to secure an internationally renowned external speaker, Richard Katz (Vice-President, EDUCAUSE). Richard provided a vision-casting perspective on where technology supported education practice is headed in the next 3-5 years, based both on his local institutional experience and on his exposure to industry trends.

Richard has been vice president of EDUCAUSE since 1996 .In 2001, founded the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR). Prior to EDUCAUSE, Katz held a variety of management and executive positions at the University of California (UC). Katz has published widely on a variety of management and technology topics, and his book Dancing with the Devil was deemed one of the 10 most important education-related books of 1999 by Lingua Franca. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and his MBA from UCLA.

Program and Presentations

8:30am – 9:00am	Registration / Coffee
9:00am – 9:05am	Opening comments from David Murphy, Director CALT
9:05am – 10:00am	Monash strategic context (panel) International (Professor Stephanie Fahey, DVC (International)) Coursework review and graduate attributes (Heinz Kreutz, EPIC) Multi-campus (Phil Steele, PVC Campus Coordination) Information Technology support of Education (Alan McMeekin, ITS)
10:00am – 10:30am	Panel discussion
10:30am – 11:00am	Morning tea
11:00am – 11:30am	Educational Technology Framework (presentation: Len Webster)
11:30am – 11:50am	Educational Technology Framework response/discussion (panel: David Murphy, Len Webster, Kate Roth, Alison Whitley, Gayle Nicholas)
11:50am – 12.40pm	“Lightning” presentations Student Polling – Brett Williams Omnium – Vince Dziekan Podcasting – Peter Wagstaff uLearning – Des Casey and Janet Fraser Teaching lab of the future – Gordon Sanson
12.40pm – 1:05pm	Vice-Chancellor’s insights and discussion
1.05pm - 2.00pm	Lunch
2:00pm – 3:00pm	The future environment: Richard Katz (presentation and discussion)
3:00pm – 3.30pm	Afternoon tea
3:30pm – 4:30pm	Participant feedback: Identification of key issues and needs
4:30pm – 4:45pm	Summary and conclusion