News Archives

AUGUST 2011

LTERC Welcomes Mr Matt Eliot onboard as "Special Research Projects Officer" Contact Matt

JULY 2011

LTERC 2011 RIS & RTS Funding Allocations - letters have now been distributed to eligible Centre Members. Please contact the Centre if you wish to utilise these funds.

APRIL 2011

CQUniversity's 2011 Research Showcase 04-14 April 2011

Congratulations to the following LTERC Member recipients from the most recent round of ALTC Grants:
    Dr Prue Howard - with the UQ and eleven other institutions, including one New Zealand and ten Australian Universities, "Curriculum renewal in engineering through theory driven evaluation"
      Prof Donna Brien - with the UC, "Examination of doctoral degrees in creative arts: process, practice and standards" 
      A/Prof Bobby Harreveld - with the UNE and six other Australian Universities, "TKNe: a transnational knowledge network in education that facilitates internationalisation"

Congratulations to the following LTERC Member recipients from   the most recent round of VC's Engagement Research Initiative: Qld   Floods Grants:
    Prof Donna Brien - Writing place through flood narratives: mapping local community identity in Central Queensland
    Dr Wendy Madsen, A/Prof Yvonne Toft & Ms Cathy O'Mullan - Showing and growing community resilience in the wake of the floods

Congratulations to A/Prof Bobby Harreveld for receiving the 2010 Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision Award at CQU.

ERA 2010 Journal Consultation Process - email from Prof Chad Hewit, Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) [18 Feb 11]

NEW SIG Assist webpage - Special Interest Groups/About SIGs/SIG Assist

MARCH 2011

Congratulations to Dr Steven Pace & A/Prof Kerry   Reid-Searl for winning the 2010 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence   in Learning & Teaching

Congratulations to Dr Dolene Rossi for securing a DEHub Research Grant. Project   Title: Learning Intractions: A cross-institutional, multi-disciplinary   analysis of learner and teacher Interactions within online context

NEW SIG Convenors:
Groups Solutions (GSS) - Ms Louise Hawkins
Inclusive Education (IED) - Dr Jenny McDougall
   
Call For Papers
Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Developement (SLEID) Journal - Conceiving the whole: the attributes of creative arts education today (EOIs due 6th March 2011) 

LTERC would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy festive season!

Latest Issue of SLEID now available: Vol. 7, No. 2 (2010) of Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development

CQUniNews Article: New LTERC Director keen to 'generate a buzz'

Congratulations to the following Members for their successful promotions:
    Donna Brien - Professor
    Trudy Dwyer - Associate Professor
    Wendy Hillman - Senior Lecturer
    Roshnee Ramsaran-Fowdar - Senior Lecturer
    Mohammad Rasul - Associate Professor
    Kerry Reid-Searl - Associate Professor
   
Congratulations   Dr Wendy Davis for the publishing of "Event TV: The production and   inhabited resistance of images of control" (2010)

NOVEMBER 2010

CALL FOR EOI - DEHub - A Distance Education Research Project Grant Opportunity

Call for Papers
Interactive Technology and Smart Education

Call for Papers
Education 2011-2021: Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning summit
     
Congratulations A/Prof Mike Horsley on your appointment to the position of LTERC Director. We look forward to working with you.
       
Congratulation   Natasha Toon, LTERC Administration Officer, for recieving "Trainee of   the Year" award at the Capricornia Training Company (CTC) Awards Night,   October 2010

Eidos Institute Representative, Mr Mike Jeffrey, Business Development Manager, CQU visit: 9th - 10th September 2010

JULY 2010

Congratulations to Ms Gillian Busch for receiving Best Poster at the   International Conference on Conversation Analysis, Germany (July 2010)

Education 2011-2021: Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning summit

JUNE 2010

New Special Interest Group (SIG)
Inclusive Education (IED), Dr Geoffrey Danaher, Convenor (June 10) 

Newly Introduced - High quality digital transcription service is now available to LTERC Members (May 10)

L & T Seminar Series:
International Student Security - the Implications for Good Practice - Dr Erlenawati Sawir (21 06 10)
       
Inividual learning in engineering team-based pedagogies: building an assessment strategy that supports collaboration - Dr Matt Eliot, CQ University (May 10)

Distance Education DEHub COALAR Visitors Presentation - Professor Fredric Litto - President, Brazilian Association for   Distance Education, Executive Committee IDCE and Formerly, Brazil, Dr   Stavros P. Xanthopoylos - Executive Director, Online and Distance   Education Centre, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil, Marta Mena - ICDE   Latin America Network and University of Moron, Argentina and A/Professor   Sara Perez - National University of Quilmes, Argentina. (May 10)

2009

AVETRA OctoberVET 2009 Rockhampton : A Success! (Nov 09)  
This   showcase event, with the theme "VET Research - Improving Practices   through Transition", was held on 5 November 2009 at CQUniversity   Rockhampton campus, and was facilitated and supported by LTERC. Want to know more ...

** NEWSFLASH ** LTERC Researcher successful in Early Career Researcher Grant Application  (Dec 09)
Dr   Jo Luck, who graduated with her PhD earlier this year, was the   successful recipient of an Early Career Researcher grant application   from the Faculty of Arts, Business, Informatics and Communication.   Working under the guidance of A/Prof Lee Di Milia as project mentor, Jo   will complete the project entitled "Course design and delivery   implications of university students' perceptions of the usefulness of   information and communication technologies for learning" during the 2010   academic year. For more information contact Jo (j.luck@cqu.edu.au or Phone 4930 9550).

** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ** RAAS Early Career Fellowship awarded to Dr Wendy Davis to continue research on the television mockumentary (Oct 09) 
See the article in UniNews.

CALL FOR PAPERS * 9th European Conference on Research Methodologies (ECRM) 2010 For Business and Management Studies
Mini Track on Reflecting and Researching one's own Professional Practices (scroll to bottom of page - last listing)
Track chair: Dr Jocene Vallack, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia
Contact details: (07) 4930 9577 or email j.vallack@cqu.edu.au

LTERC Launch - New L&T centre an 'intellectual home' to value work (CQUniNews 18-09-2009)  

Congratulations to A/Prof Bobby Harreveld for having her paper The ETRF, robust hope and teacher education: Making practical reforms to the senior phase of learning, recognised   by the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (A-PJTE) for both the   quality of Bobby's research work, and its impact in the field of teacher   education research.

L&T/LTERC 2010 Seminar Series Presentation:
Values, interests and transformative learning: Paths to thinking otherwise - Dr Geoffrey Danaher, 04th October 2010

SEPTEMBER 2010

2010 Research Incentive Scheme (RTS) Funding allocations are currently in progress. Letters will be distributed in coming weeks

OCTOBER 2010

Newly Introduced - Research Worker Assistance/Support available for all members.

Newly Established - DeHub Working Group consisting of six CQUniversity staff members.

D-Cubed ALTC Project - "A reveiw of the dissemination strategies used by projects funded by   the ALTC Grants Scheme", Deanne Gannaway, UQ, and Tilly Hinton, USC

The team at Noosa have now created a iSurf, CQUniversity, Noosa Current Projects facebook page as part of the EyeTracker Project

Congratulations to LTERC Member Dr Steven Pace for receiving   the ICT Educator of the Year Award at Australia's premier ICT Awards,   June 2011

Research Training Calendar - LTERC encourages Centre Members to participate in research training offered by the Office of Research.