Learning Technology Research Symposium - 2008

The Learning Technology Research Symposium is a half-day event inviting the community of researchers in ICT-supported learning to exchange ideas, showcase work and catch up on recent innovations in Learning Technology Research.
When and Where
11th December, 2008 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
This year's Symposium will be held at the CoCo Research Centre, Lvl 2, Education Bldg (A35), at the University of Sydney.
Symposium Timetable
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9:30-10 am |
Registration |
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10:00-10:15 am |
Symposium Welcome (by CoCo directors) |
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10:15-11:15 am |
Research Poster Showcase (two 30 min sessions) |
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11:15-11:45 am |
Invited Presentation "New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning and participatory culture" by Jan Herrington
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11:45-12:30 pm |
Roundtable Session 1 |
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12:30-1:15 pm |
Lunch and Awards (best poster awards, sandwiches, coffee...) |
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1:15-2:00 pm |
Roundtable Session 2 |
Virtual Poster Session.
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Documentation
Posters
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- Amanda LeRoy: "Understanding preservice teachers’ epistemic and self-efficacy beliefs about the integration of technology in the classroom: putting theory into practice"
- Dietrich Albert: "Cognitive science section department of psychology of Graz"
- Dietrich Albert: "Immersive digital educational games"
- Dietrich Albert: "An educational journey: Around an inspiring virtual learning world in 80 Days"
- Dietrich Albert: "Self-regulation and personalization in technology-enhanced learing"
- Jan Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Anthony Herrington, Brian Ferry & Ian Olney: "Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning"
- Jason Sargent: "Towards resolving the refugee camp as campus paradox"
- Jennifer Jones: "Learning designs as supports for University Teachers' Design of eLearning experiences"
- Jennifer Nicholls & Robyn Philip: "Documenting playbuilding through group blogging"
- Kerin Wood: "Using digital animation presentation software to engage Aboriginal students in improving literacy skills"
- Lina Markauskaite & Peter Goodyear: "Epistemic fluency for scholarship of teaching"
- Lisa Kosta: "Investigating learning designs to support self-regulated learning"
- Maria Bannert: "Design and effects of metacognitive support for hypermedia learning"
- Melinda Lewis: "How do you take your IT? Student and staff responses to information technology in the bachelor of health sciences"
- Peter Reimann & Rafael Calvo: "Providing feedback on writing: A text mining approach"
- Peter Reimann & Jimmy Frerejean: "An example of educational data
mining: Group decision making"
- Phillip Dawson: "Examining how an online mentoring model may support new supplemental instruction leaders"
- Sarah Howard: "Who takes risks in the classroom: Examining risk-taking and efficacies in the context of ICT-related change"
- Sebastian Fiedler: "Sustaining Technology Enhanced Learning Large-scale multidisciplinary Research (STELLAR)"
- Sharryn Bowes: "Integrating ICT into teaching and learning"
- Shannon Kennedy-Clark: "Productive failure in the virtual world: The impact of scaffolded and un-scaffolded intelligent agents"
- Susanna Mann: "Designing for mobile learning at the Powerhouse Museum"
- Ray Handley: "Technology as the spark to re-ignite unmotivated learners - for whom is it effective and how does it work?"
- Richard Wenchao He: "E-Learning for preschoolers? a parent-involved solution for linguaphone China"
- Victoria Neville, Sue Bennett & Lori Lockyer: "Concept maps as cognitive tools to illustrate pre-service teachers’ understanding of the use of ICT in teaching"
Roundtables
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- Frances Plummer: "What are the opportunities, challenges and dilemmas in supporting teachers to integrate ICT in teaching and learning including support for the digital education revolution?"
- John Wilson & Colin Wood: "Potential of interactive, web-based games to deliver enhanced student learning outcomes"
- Lina Markauskaite: "Scholarship of e-teaching: How can we research our own online teaching practices?"
- Maria Bannert: "Freedom to choose or freedom to fail: How can we support self-regulated e-learning?"
- Mary-Helen Ward: "Are blogs an effective way to assess student reflection?"
- Michael Jacobson: "Digital media and a new looking glass for learning: design and learning issues in multi-user virtual and serious game environments"
- Richard Wenchao He: "E-learning for more than one user at a terminal"
If you have any questions about the event, please contact symposium coordinator Myrna Admodjo by email or phone at 9351 5139.
Likewise, if you need to cancel or make any changes to your registration, please inform our coordinator so we can keep track of numbers.
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