LTERC SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS

DE Hub: An Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Project: A Community for Learning and Teaching, Research and 'Innovation in Distance Education'

Presenters: Professor Belinda Tynan (Director DE Hub) and Nathan Wise (Project Manager, DE Hub) (University of New England)

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Abstract

Education is transforming at a local, national and international level. There is a move towards an overarching distance education environment mediated by technology and towards a lifelong learning paradigm. The Distance Education Hub (DE Hub - www.dehub.edu.au) has been funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to establish and facilitate topical research, inform policy development and disseminate critical information in distance education leading to knowledge creation and application by distance education practitioners.

DE Hub aims to bring together academics globally who are engaged in pedagogical research to work together collaboratively to address key issues in the field. This symposium addresses the theme of the conference and aims to engage in discussion about collaboration with New Zealand academics. DE Hub takes a broad view that collaboration involves connecting, sharing and co-building of knowledge in a variety of global contexts amongst and with a range of researchers and practitioners.

The DE Hub provides an opportunity for a consortium of distance education universities (University of New England, Charles Sturt University, University of Southern Queensland and CQUniversity) to reach out to a range of research communities so as to support the making of policies and structures that are more flexible and relevant to community development in all aspects. DE Hub supports the democratization of knowledge and the research hub has established a presence on wikieducator http://wikieducator.org/DEHub and a range of links on http://delicious.com/dehub in the spirit of sharing, constructing and disseminating research that is key to the field of distance education and the priority research themes of learning and teaching, research and evaluation and community and open education resources.

Speaker Bio

Belinda Tynan - is Academic Director, Faculty of the Professions, University of New England. Professor Tynan has held numerous academic positions in the UK, Australia and Japan. She leads numerous grants and is Director for DE Hub: innovation in distance education, a commonwealth funded research project. Her research and publications cover areas such as distance education, academic staff development, new technologies and regional issues. She is also the Treasurer for the Open and Distance Learning Association Australia (ODLAA).

Nathan Wise - has a BA Hons (First Class) from UOW and PhD in history from UNSW. Nathan was formerly employed as an Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and as a Research Officer with the Refugee Review Tribunal and he is currently an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Humanities at UNE and the Project Manager of DE Hub.

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