Professional responsibilities

President of the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE)

ACODE's mission is to enhance policy and practice in Australasian higher education around technology enhanced learning and teaching at institutional, national and international levels through: disseminating and sharing knowledge and expertise; supporting professional development and providing networking opportunities investigating; developing and evaluating new approaches; advising and influencing key bodies in higher education; and promoting best practice.

Director, ACODE Learning Technologies Leadership Institute, and
Director, ACODE Benchmarking Summit

As part of my involvement on the ACODE Executive Committee I am responsible for directing the activities of the ACODE Learning Technologies Leadership Institutes and the ACODE Benchmarking Summits (run in alternate years). Participants in the Institute develop a deeper understanding of what constitutes effective leadership in relation to TEL and work closely with the Faculty to gain an understanding of their future leadership potential.

The Benchmarking Summi ts uses the ACODE Benchmarks for technology enhanced learning. Every two years those participating institutions undertake a self-assessment activity using the benchmarks, culminating in a inter-institutional benchmarking activity.

Vice-Chair, Moodle Users Association (MUA)

The role of the Moodle Users Association is to help guide the development of the open source Moodle project. Moodle is used in some 225 countries, by almost 64,000 registered sites and is regularly accessed by over 81 million users.

Mentor: ASCILITE Community Mentoring Program

I am currently an active Mentor in the ascilite Community Mentoring Program. This involves engaging in professional mentoring relationship with a more junior ascilite member (mentee) and provides a vehicle for the enhancement of specific knowledge, skills or capacities in an area of developing expertise. This arrangement is formalised through a Mentoring Agreement.

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