Distinguished lectures
Professor Gilly Salmon
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Speaker: Professor Gilly Salmon, Executive Director Australian Digital Futures Institute, USQ
Title: Exploration: the future of learning
Summary: The 2nd decade of the 21st Century offers students and teachers perhaps the greatest opportunity for positive and constructive change since formal higher education began some thousand years ago. To date however, whilst digitalisation has impacted upon every aspect of life in our society, transformations in our approach to education have been slight. Professor Salmon explores digital futures for learning through the lens of 3 key contemporary themes: Openness, Mobility and Digital Community. Not for the faint-hearted.
Date: 19 April 2011
Biography: Professor Gilly Salmon took up her post as Professor of Learning Futures and Executive director of the Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland in early January 2011. Prior to that, she was Professor of E-learning and Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester, UK, and head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance and the Media Zoos (on campus, online and in-world in Second Life).
Gilly’s research interests span strategies for enhancing learning with and through new technologies, the future for learning in Higher Education and innovation through learning design.
She is a Senior Fellow and a National Teaching Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, Trustee of EDEN, and chair of the UK’s Association of Learning Technologies.
Gilly has two research degrees: in change management and ICT and pedagogy. Her book E-moderating is considered seminal in the field of online teaching. A new edition (the 3rd) will be published in 2011. Other recent books include E-tivities and Learning in Groups, Podcasting for Learning in Universities was published in August 2008.
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