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Master of Ceremonies, Dr Niki Page
Online Services Manager, Tourplan
Dr Niki Page has held a range of teaching, management and project roles in the tertiary education sector over the past two decades, with specialisations in ICT, Information Literacy, Library, eLearning and Learning Support areas. Past roles with DEANZ have included Executive Committee member, Vice-President, Website Manager and Editorial Board of the association's journal. Having spent the last nine years at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Nicki is now embarking on a change in direction. She has been appointed as the Online Services Manager for "Tourplan", an IT company specialising in tour-related software solutions for the global travel industry.
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Keynote speakers
Invited speakers
Keynote speakers
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Professor Paul Bacsich (UK)
Canterbury fellow visiting the University of Canterbury e-Learning Lab in 2012
Blog: http://bacsich.typepad.com/
Towards the Multiversity? An integrated view of where we are in the
world of e-learning - tertiary education and schools
Since 1991 Professor Paul Bacsich has played a large part in many UK and
European e-learning projects with an international remit beyond Europe,
beginning with the JANUS project (which deployed a satellite Internet
across European educational institutions in 1992-95), years of
e-university work on, at and after the UK e-University (2001-2007). Most recently Paul leads a series of EU projects: a review of Virtual Campuses
in universities (Re.ViCa), an ongoing review of virtual schools and colleges (VISCED), and just beginning, an international review of OER policies for education at government level. In this keynote he will use his concept
of the "Multiversity" to synthesise his work on "where in the world is
e-learning" including New Zealand, of course!
Paul will also lead a VISCED workshop with support from the University of
Canterbury e-Learning Lab to accurately highlight New Zealand's Virtual
Campuses in VISCED international reviews.
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Professor Kwok-Wing Lai (New Zealand)
Professor of Education, University of Otago
Wing's presentation: Changing culture of learning: Mobililty, in(formality) & connectivity
Changing culture of Learning: Mobility, in(formality), & connectivity
Dr Kwok-Wing Lai is professor of education and director of the Centre for
Distance Education and Learning Technologies at the University of Otago.
He is also the founding editor of Computers in New Zealand Schools. Wing
has been teaching and researching ICT in education and distance learning for over 25 years, his recent research interests include computer-supported knowledge building and blending formal and informal
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Dr Diana Oblinger (USA)
President and CEO of EDUCAUSE
IT and education: Game changers
Diana's public lecture: Next generation learning
Diana's presentation: IT and edcuation: Game changers
Dr. Diana G. Oblinger is President and CEO of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit
association whose mission is to advance higher education through the use
of information technology. The current membership comprises over 2,400
colleges, universities and education organizations, including 250
corporations. Previously, Oblinger held positions in academia and business:
Vice President for InformationResources and the Chief Information Officer
for the University of North Carolina system, Executive Director of Higher Education for Microsoft, and IBM Director of the Institute for Academic Technology. She was on the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia and at Michigan State University and served as the associate dean of academic programs at the University of Missouri.
Since becoming president of EDUCAUSE, Oblinger has become known for
innovative product and services growth as well as international outreach.
For xample, Oblinger reated the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI),
known for its leadership in teaching, learning and technology innovation
as well as several signature products, such as the 7 Things You Should
Know About series. She also initiated EDUCAUSE’s first fully online events
and its e-book series, including ducating the Net Generation and Learning Spaces. Oblinger is a frequent keynote speaker as well as the co-author
of the award-winning book What Business Wants from Higher Education.
She is the editor or co-editor of seven books: The Learning Revolution,
The Future Compatible Campus, Renewing dministration, E is for
Everything, Best Practices in Student Services, Educating the Net
Generation, and Learning Spaces. She also is the author or co-author of numerous monographs and articles on higher education and technology.
Dr. Oblinger has received outstanding teaching and research awards, was
named Young Alumnus of the Year by Iowa State University and holds
two honorary degrees. She is a graduate of Iowa State University
(Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D.) and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi.
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Dr Caroline Seelig
Chief Executive, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Appropriate education performance indicators for ODL organisations
Dr Caroline Seelig joined the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand as Chief
Executive on 26 January 2009. Three years later she remains confident
about the power and potential of the role of Open and Distance Learning
in scalable, cost effective and quality education in NZ and overseas.
Formerly Deputy Chief Executive of Nelson Marlborough Institute of
Technology (NMIT - 2000-2009), Caroline has 16 years’ experience as a
senior manager in New Zealand’s ITP sector, having previously also
worked at EIT Hawkes Bay and Tai Poutini Polytechnic. At NMIT she led
the institution’s strategic and investment planning, along with oversight of flexible learning, academic and portfolio development, quality
management and student support. Caroline has extensive knowledge of
the ITP sector and has led or been involved in a wide range of successful
collaborative initiatives and external funding bids to drive change and innovation. Woolf Fisher Scholar in 2004, Caroline holds a PhD in Biology from University College of Swansea and a Master of Educational
Administration, Massey University.
Caroline says Open Polytechnic distance learning makes a difference in
the lives of many thousands of people. 'I want us to make the most of
the strengths and the people we have here. Our future is about being
dynamic, innovative and the best at what we do.
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Invited speakers
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Professor Niki Davis
Professor of e-learning, University of Canterbury
and DEANZ 2016 project panel
A scenario guide to effective tertiary education for New Zealand in 2016
Professor Davis will be joined by Dr Andrew Higgins, Dr Bill Anderson, Associate Professor Gordon Suddaby and Pinelopi Zaka for her invited address.
Professor Niki Davis (project leader) is the current President of
DEANZ and University of Canterbury Professor of e-Learning,
where she directs the e-Learning Lab. She is recognised
internationally as a leading expert in teacher education. Sought by
UNESCO, European Commission, national agencies, companies,
scholarly societies and institutions for her expertise; she has
over 200 publications including books and scholarly papers. See
http://www.education.canterbury.ac.nz/research_labs/e_learning/index.shtml and http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/UCResearchProfile/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=3612254.
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Dr Andrew Higgins
is known for his work on Taking the Lead: Strategic Management for
E learning and for a long lasting involvement in distance education. He
led the New Zealand delegation to APEC on "Bridging the Digital Divide"
and was a member of the Ministerial Advisory group responsible for the
Highway and Pathways report. He is working on the New Zealand E
Learning Guidelines revision and on research into the role e Learning
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Dr Bill Anderson
is the Director, Distance Learning at the University of Otago, and a past
President of DEANZ. His current work addresses issues surrounding support
for distance students and the sources of that support, as well as the interaction between the approaches to study that distance students adopt and the types of support they seek.
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Ken Kay
CEO EdLeader21
The 7 Steps to Become a 21st Century School [virtual presentation]
Ken is the Chief Executive Officer of EdLeader21, a professional learning
community for education leaders. He has been the leading voice for 21st
Century Education for the last decade. He co-founded the Partnership for
21st Century Skills in 2002 and served as its President for 8 years. As executive director of the CEO Forum on Education and Technology, he led
the development of the StaR Chart (School Technology & Readiness
Guide), used by schools across the country to make better use of
technology in K-12 classrooms. Ken spent 28 years in Washington, DC,
where he gained a national reputation as a coalition builder on competitiveness issues in education and industry -- particularly policies
and practices that support innovation and technology leadership. He
founded a landmark coalition of US universities and high-tech companies focused on research and development issues. He also was the founding Executive Director of the premier CEO advocacy group in the US computer industry.
Ken has co-edited the book “New Directions for Youth Development: The
Case for Twenty-First Century Learning,” and has written the foreword to
the book, “21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn.”
Currently, he serves on the boards of Edvantia (www.edvantia.org) and
the Buck Institute for Education (www.bie.org).
Ken is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Denver
College of Law. He and his wife, Karen, have three adult children, a
daughter-in-law and a grandson. They live in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, with their golden retriever, Bisbee. |
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Dr Wayne Macintosh
Director, International Centre for Open Education
and OER panel
Dr Wayne Macintosh is Director of the Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation, an independent non profit organisation which provides internationla networking, leadership and support to educatiors and educational institutions to achieve their objectives using open education approaches. The OER Foundation is coordinating the international OER university network.
Wayne is the founder of the WiiEducator project, an international community of +30,000 teachers, lecturers and trainers working at the heart of the education endeavour, namely, to share knowledge freely. Previously, he was Education Specialist, eLearning and ICT policy at the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), and intergovernmental organisation based in Vancouver, Canada. Before joining COL he was Associate Professor and founding director of the Cetnre for Flexible and Distance Learning (CFDL) at the University of Auckland.
Prior to moving to New Zealand he spent eleven years working at the University of South Africa (UNISA), a distance learning institution and one of the world's mega-universities. Wayne has participated in a range of international consultancies and projects including work for COL, the International Monetary Fund, UNESCO and the World Bank. He also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Open Learning, and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand.
Phil Kerr
is Chief Executive of Otago Polytechnic since 2005. Otago Polytechnic is a founding anchor partner of the OERu.
Phil has developed a broad portfolio of expertise as an academic and an administrator in both university and polytechnic environments. Previous roles have included lecturing in business (accounting, economics and management) and tertiary teaacher education, and leading staff development and management of Student Services, Human Resources and Property functions.
Since joining Otago Polytechnic Phil has been motivated by the dual themes of innovation and sustainability - reflected in students' learning environments, educational experiences and the Polytechnic's operational practices.
He has particular interest in business education, education for sustainability, staff development generally and leadership development specifically; and in the recognition of prior experiential learning.
Herbert Thomas
holds a Ph.D in Computer-integrated Education and a Master's Degree in Linguistics. He is currently the Electronic Learning Media Team Leader in the Digital Media Group at the University of Canterbury. He has taught English and both secondary and tertiary levels and has been involved in the field of learning and e-learning management for more than 10 years. He has presented and published, amongst others, on matters relating to definitions of learning in the digital age; the design of learning spaces and environments; and education and complexity.
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Vasi Doncheva
is a lifelong learner, passionate about finding new ways to effectively
use technology to engage and inspire learners and create learning
opportunities for diverse and widely dispersed communities. Currently
she is working at NorthTec and leading the development and
implementation of flexible learning initiatives that foster innovation
and creativity through innovative use of technology in teaching and
learning as well as support services. Vasi worked for a few years in the
hospitality industry in Cyprus and Bulgaria as training and development
manager and consultant. After completing her MBA in Marketing
Management in 1995 she started her teaching career. She migrated
with her family to New Zealand in 2001 and her passion for learning
led her to a career in higher education firstly as a lecturer and later on
as an e-learning professional. Completing a postgraduate study in online
education and a Master of Training and Development online with the
University of Southern Queensland further fuelled her passion for
technology and learning. In the last few years she has started to explore
Open Educational Resources and how they can be effectively used and adopted by educators in their teaching practice.
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Terry Neal
has worked for 12 years in the institute of technology and polytechnic (ITP) sector in New Zealand. She has worked with individual ITPs, led national projects, and advised government, to build the ITP sector’s ability to use technology to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of vocational education. She has presented across New Zealand on e-learning strategy and implementation and use of virtual worlds in education. In February 2011, she began as Flexible Learning Manager (External Services) at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. As part of this role she represents the Open Polytechnic on the OERu, and is a member of the Joint Working Group leading the collaboration between the National Institute of Open Schooling in India and the Open Polytechnic. She has also led several consulting projects for the Commonwealth of Learning on open and flexible vocational education in the Pacific. |
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[Other speaker details associated with the OER panel to come]
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Chief Executives Panel
Hon Steve Maharey
is the Vice-Chancellor of Massey University. Massey is New Zealand’s
national university, teaching 34,000 students on its campuses in
Palmerston North, Albany and Wellington as well as through distance
learning. His academic interests include social policy, education policy,
cultural studies, media and the role of government. He is currently
working on new approaches to government and the public serve in
the 21st century. Prior to taking up his appointment at Massey at the
end of 2008, he was a Government Minister for nine years holding a
wide range of portfolios including Minister of Education, Minister of
Social Development and Employment, Minister of Research Science
and Technology, Minister of Broadcasting and Minister of Housing.
He was the Member of Parliament for Palmerston North from 1990
until 2008. Before entering Parliament he was a Senior Lecturer in
Sociology at Massey University. He has also taught as a Junior Lecturer
in Business Administration. He has been an elected City Councillor, and
was awarded the Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in 2009.
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Mike Hollings, Chief Executive Te Kura
has more than 30 year's wide ranging experience in the education sector, from teaching through to management, policy development and review. He has been the Chief Executive of Te Kura (formerly The Correspondence School) since August 2006. In 2010 Mike was invited to be one of four New Zealanders participating in the Global Education Leaders Program, and has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of Big Picture Education Australia. Prior to joininig Te Kura, Mike was the National Manager Analysis and Policy at the Education Review Office with responsibility for evaluating the quality of education in New Zealand schools and was the Acting Chief Executive between June 2005 and May 2006. Mike was Chief Executive of Te Mangai Poho, the Maori Broadcasting Funding Agency from 1996 to 1999 and has held various senior management positions at Te Puni Kokiri, The Ministry of Maori Development. Of Maori descent from the Ngati Raukawa tribe, Mike has led the establishment of Te Kohanga Reo (early childhood Maori language immersion education) and Kura Kaupapa Maori (Maori lanaguage immersion in primary and secondary schooling) in his home community in the Wairarapa district.
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