| Online community design, development and facilitation |
 I
have founded and facilitated several online learning communities including
the
knowledgeGarden
community used by Faculty of Education students.
I am currently working a
funded project to develop the noWhere2learn community
for Tertiary Preparation Program students.
Some other communities are located at
http://community.baker-evans.com
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| e-learning courses |
Over the last 10 years I have designed,
developed and
taught many courses on
e-learning. Generally these have
been online
courses (but not always). These courses have
been delivered to University teachers and administrators as
well as corporate trainers both in Australia and overseas.
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| Midwifery CD-ROM and web sites |
This project demonstrated the extraordinarily rich
learning environments which can be created if academics are provided with
appropriate tools and support. The richness derives from the types of media
used (text, drawings, photos, voice and music), the amount of content, the
interactivity embedded in the learning objects and the tools for navigating the
learning space. These CD-ROMs were awarded the 2000 USQ University Award for
Excellence in the Design and Delivery of Teaching Materials (view the award
application).
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| COOLtools (Creative Opportunities for
Online Learning) |
A collection of interactive tools which can be
embedded into online learning environments to provided additional education
functionality. See an
archive of the COOLtools site as well as a
paper reporting on the development
methodology) |
| Blackhawk and Seahawk Media Libraries |
When the Blackhawk and Seahawk helicopters were introduced
to Australia the training materials were placed on 12 inch optical disks.
Over time these materials became less accessible (the players could not be
repaired and could only be used at a single site) and there was an urgent
need to move to the media library to a highly indexed, easily navigated and
accessible format (CD-ROM) viewable using a browser.
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| USQ Handbook |
This project demonstrated how to
collaboratively work with others using familiar tools to publish a
interlinked and easily navigated web site and a printed book from a single
document. This project used the markup language described in
this paper.
In addition to providing a rich and highly usable navigation structure the
processing system automatically added the following types of links to the
web site:
- from people and the up to date entry in the university's human resources database
- from course codes to the short description of the course
- from program names to full program descriptions
- from short course descriptions to the up to date full description in the
university's online course specification database
You can view different versions of the handbooks at:
1999,
2000,
2001 and
2002. A
different system was used in
2003.
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| Art and Illustration in Children's Literature |
This CD-ROM was the first produced at USQ which used a forerunner of the
Markup Language. This was the first time the course leader was able to
include colour images in the course materials (unlike print it costs little
more to have a colour image on a CD-ROM). This CD included over 400 small and full
screen colour illustrations with commentary as well as transcripts and
video interviews with the course leader, illustrators and authors. This
CD-ROM was part of the package that won a USQ University Awards for
Excellence in the Design and Delivery of Teaching Materials and also won the
first prize in the ODLAA
Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) Award for
Excellent Practice in Distance Education & Open Learning.
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Hathaway Multimedia
Case Study |
This CD-ROM is a rich case study of a NSW primary school
containing
approximately 450 interconnected nodes of multimedia information (text,
drawings, photographs, and over three hours of audio and video). This
information is embedded in a learning environment that provides powerful
tools to help users identify, understand, and use relevant information. This CD-ROM was one of the
five finalists in the "Best tertiary multimedia applications" at the 1996
Australiasian Multimedia
Industry Association Awards and it is described in this
paper.
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| Email, communications and management suite |
These programs enabled efficient student use of a 18
computer BBC microcomputer network within the Faculty of Education in the
mid 1980's. The enabling impact of the
system is described in this keynote address
to the New Zealand Computer Education Society
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