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Showing posts with label ASCILITE MLSIG. Show all posts

Showing posts with label ASCILITE MLSIG. Show all posts

Friday, March 14, 2025

Shifting educational practice through technology

Greetings from the ASCILITE MLSIG weekly online meeting, where convenor Thomas Cochrane (University of Melbourne) just reminded us about the...

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Mobile Learning Post COVID-19 in the GenAI Era

Greetings from ASCILITE 2024 where Vickel Narayan, Massey University, New Zealand, is speaking on " Navigating the Terrain:Emerging Fro...

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Best of ASCILITE 2024

I have booked to attend the ASCILITE 2024 computers and education conference at the University of Melbourne, 1 to 4 December (being a joint...

Friday, July 19, 2024

Chatbots for More Rounded Employable Graduates?

Greetings from the weekly ASCILITE MLSIG webinar. One of the members had a positive report on using Cogniti (developed at University of S...

Friday, June 28, 2024

Impact of Digital Technology on Children Webinar 5 July

Dr. John Worthington, Educational and Developmental Psychologist Educational and Developmental Psychologist, Dr. John Worthington, will be...

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Nurturing an Academic Community Online

Much as been written about how the Internet is undermining scholarship, and isolating us, but it can also be a way to bring people with comm...

Friday, June 16, 2023

What to do and not do with Augmented Reality for Education

Greetings from the ASCILITE Mobile Learning Special Interest Group (MLSig) meeting with Dr. Patrick O'Shea , at Appalachian State Unive...

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Designing for online, blended and synchronous learning for computing students

Today I talked to the participants of Thomas Cochrane's " Design for Transformative Mobile Learning Design BootCamp ", along w...

Friday, October 21, 2022

GPT3 + AI: What is the human value in light of AI developments?

Next week I am helping with a webinar on AI and education (announcement below). AI has the potential to help students, by providing very ded...

Friday, September 16, 2022

Language Teaching Tech Innovation

Greetings from the ASCILITE Mobile Learning Special Interest Group, where Paul Raine , developer of Zengengo , is talking on developing apps...

Friday, July 15, 2022

Virtual Reality for Language Teaching

Neil Cowie Mehrasa Alizadeh Mehrasa Alizadeh (International Professional University of Technology Osaka) and Neil Cowie (Okayama Universi...

Friday, June 3, 2022

ASCILITE Mobile Learning SIG 2022

MLSIG presentation at ASCILITE 2021 Greetings from the weekly ASCILITE Mobile Learning SIG meeting. Last week we had an introductory sessi...

Friday, May 20, 2022

A Day in the Life of the MLSig

MLSIG presentation at ASCILITE 2021 Members of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Mobile...

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Mobile and Socially Constructed Blended Learning with Activity Theory a Response to COVID-19

Next Tuesday at ASCILITE 2021 , I have sixty seconds to speak on "Mobile learning and socially constructed blended learning through the...

Friday, June 18, 2021

Coordinating Reviews of Scientific Research

Greetings from the MLSIG of ASCILITE. The group is considering undertaking a review of mobile learning research. Members with a medical ba...

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Live Discussion on Hybrid Learning at ASCILITE 2020 Conference

Greetings from the ASCILITE 2020 Conference , where I am participating in the presentation of the second of two of two joint papers I help...

Learning to Work Online for the Long Term

Greetings from the ASCILITE 2020 Conference , where I presented on the first of two of two joint papers. I am the last author and so did no...

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Mobile Learning Special Interest Group

The ASCILITE Mobile Learning Special Interest Group has produced an eight minute video to explain what they do for the ASCILITE 2020 Confe...

Friday, November 20, 2020

ASCILITE 2020 Conference Online 30 November

The ASCILITE 2020 Conference will be the organisation's first online. This is hosted 30 November and 2 December by UNE. This will be my...

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Tom Worthington: Canberra, ACT, Australia; Tom Worthington is an independent computer professional, educational design consultant and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. A Certified Professional member of the Australian Computer Society, in 2015 Tom received a national gold Digital Disruptors Award for "ICT Education" and in 2010 was Canberra ICT Educator of the Year. Tom previously worked on IT policy for the Australian Government and in 1999 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the development of public Internet policy. He is a Past President, Honorary Life Member, Certified Professional and a Certified Computer Professional of the society as well as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Tom has a Masters of Education (specializing in Distance Education) from Athabasca University, a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from the Australian National University and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment from the Canberra Institute of Technology.

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