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                    Seminar Announcement

            School of Computer Science, CECS
             The Australian National University
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Date:  Thursday, 27 August 2009
Time:  4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]


Speaker: Tom Worthington, DCS, ANU

Title:   Mentored and Collaborative e-Learning for Postgraduate
         Professional Education

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.

Biography:
   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.

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars09/dept20090827


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