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DCS SEMINAR SERIES

Mentored and Collaborative e-Learning for Postgraduate Professional Education

Tom Worthington (DCS, ANU)


DATE: 2009-08-27
TIME: 16:00:00 - 17:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101



ABSTRACT:
The first globally accredited Green ICT course for computer professionals commenced in January 2009. The course uses Moodle to teach how to measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sponsored by the Australian Computer Society as part of an international program for professional education, the course is also now run at the masters level by the Australian National University.

Course designer Tom Worthington discusses how the course uses e-learning with mentored and collaborative techniques and how it it has worked with three cohorts of students from around the world. He also discusses the process of having a course approved by Australia's leading university, with no prerequisites, no lectures, no examinations, all open source content and able to be conducted via a mobile phone. Some suggestions will be made for better integration of e-learning with traditional educational environments and possible future technologies such as Google Wave.

See also: * Previous presentation "Learning to lower costs and carbon emissions with ICT": http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/green_it_social_networking

* ANU Course description: http://cs.anu.edu.au/Student/comp7310>



BIO:
Tom Worthington is an independent IT consultant and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University. He has been an expert witness in several court cases involving computer issues. After a career in IT policy with the federal government, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the development of public Internet policy in Australia.

Tom teaches the design of web sites, e-commerce and professional ethics at the ANU. He designed the Australian Computer Society's Green ICT Strategies course.