Learning Café EDU44
Realising Learning Innovation: a Message from the Mountain
Date Friday, Dec 4 Time – RoomCheck
How can e-learning proponents become catalysts for change? This session will address the ongoing challenges to achieving adaptive and radical innovation in conservative organisations. Examples from around the world will be of interest to executives, managers, practitioners and change agents of all kinds.
Moderator
Gilly Salmon
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education Innovation) & Professor at University of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor Gilly Salmon is one of the world's leading thinkers around learning futures and pedagogical innovation. She researches and publishes widely on the themes of innovation and change in Higher Education and the exploitation of new technologies of all kinds in the service of learning. She is internationally renowned for her significant contributions to online education including research, learning design, teaching methods and the use of digital technologies.
Gilly is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education Innovation) at The University of Western Australia (UWA). She has established The Centre for Education Futures to realize UWA's Education Futures principles and visions, including the 'Mobile is the new Blend', establishment of the futures and radical thinking and achievements through the Futures Observatory, the collaborative design of UWA teaching units through the Carpe Diem methodology and the achievements of extensive digital learning environments for the university.
Previously, she was Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning Transformations at Swinburne University of Technology, Executive Director and Professor (Learning Futures) at the Australian Digital Futures Institute, based in the University of Southern Queensland, Australia and was Professor of E-learning and Learning Technologies, and Head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance and the Media Zoo, at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.
Recent publications include the third edition of her seminal E-moderating, the 2nd Edition of E-tivies, Learning in Groups and Podcasting for Learning.
Links
http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/gilly.salm…