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Elluminate Live!Elluminate Live! (ELive) is a synchronous web tool suitable for online collaboration, classrooms, demonstrations, meetings, web conferences, seminars and IT deployment, training and support. Moderator(s) control interaction through a set of tools allowing control over participant’s ability to use the microphone, edit the whiteboard, import presentations or documents, message the group, use their webcam and interact with shared applications. Elluminate’s unique ‘Communication Collaboration Framework’ also permits full oversight and management of the performance of each participant’s connection and devices in each session. Elluminate has agreed to a free, no obligation ASP hosted trial for one unit in each nominated Faculty at Monash University during Semester 2 2007. Unlimited general use for meetings and collaboration will also be allowed, this will be available prior to the commencement of Semester 2 2007. Refer also: Monash University Elluminate Live Trial Word 52 Kb PDF 41 Kb For further information on the Monash Trial, please contact Simon Lismann, VCP, +61 3 990 39512. Interactive video conferencing“Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Interactive Video Conferencing in Medical and Health Sciences Education” A Project Officer, funded by a Faculty Teaching and Learning Performance Fund Grant, was appointed in July 2007 to work with staff of the North West Rural Medical Education Unit (School of Rural Health, Bendigo), Centre for Medical Health Sciences Education and Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health to develop, implement and evaluate an introductory professional education module and video-conferencing teaching resources for staff. The project is due for completion in December 2007. A review of the literature related to best practice in videoconferencing in teacher development is in preparation with key focus areas including interactivity and collaboration, theories of learning and pedagogical strategies for use in the videoconferencing environment. The literature review, Project Report and a link to the staff development module (module content; pre-reading, list of core competencies, staff guides and resource list) will be made available through a web link. Based on outcomes from this project it is envisaged that a more substantial action research project and socio-technical analysis of learning and teaching practices in the videoconferencing environment, involving academic staff from a number of urban/rural sites, could then be undertaken in 2008. Contact: Ms Natalie Radomski, Project Team Leader, North West Education Unit, +61 3 5440 9015 InterLearnInterLearn is a collaborative online learning environment developed at Monash University for the use by staff in the learning and teaching process. A new version of InterLearn, better suited to full unit design is currently in development, will be released in 2008. It provides an alternative or supplement to the WebCT environment.Contact: Mr Bill Potter, Educational Developer, CALT, +61 3 990 34470 The Omnium Project & the Omnium Research NetworkThe Omnium Project aims to resolve specific difficulties faced by visual artists and designers wanting to work collaboratively, but whose locations and cultural backgrounds are both distanced and diverse. The Omnium Research Network, in the Faculty of Art & Design, is a virtual community where researchers can actively engage with their community showcasing their current and ongoing projects, exchanging information, collaborating and promoting a spirit of open and critical dialogue.Contact: Mr Vince Dzlekan, Convenor, Omnium Research Network, +61 3 990 31553 WebExWebEx is a net based collaborative technology used widely in the corporate world. It is in its fourth year of use as an enhancement of the innovative delivery approach within the Master in School Leadership in the Faculty of Education . On and off campus students, local and international, with access to a telephone and Internet browser can use the technology to application share, interact on a virtual whiteboard, video stream, text chat in real time and audio connect. The project is currently pursuing the effects on collaborative teaching and learning from using WEBEX . Future directions include the study of impacts on organisational learning systems from the use of such technologies. Refer also: Beatty, B & Allix N (2005) Being there: Exploring extending and enriching distance education in real time with WEBEX Paper presented at the ODLAA Conference Adelaide 2005. Contact: Dr Brenda Beatty, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, +61 3 990 52840 |
