2015 THETA Program

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SUNDAY, 10 May 2015

13:00 – 16:00	Registration Open
13:00 – 16:00	Meeting space available
17:00 – 18:30	Conference Welcome Reception in Exhibition Hall

MONDAY, 11 May 2015

8:00 – 18:30	Registration Open
8:00 – 8:45	Arrival Tea and Coffee
8:45 – 9:30	Opening Ceremonies Bruce Callow, CTO, Griffith University and THETA 2015 Conference Chair Room A Recording
	Cultural Welcome Uncle Graham Dillon, OAM DUniv, Griffith University Council of Elders, Elder of the Kombumerri Ngarang-Wal *Room A* Recording	Welcome to THETA Professor Ian O’Connor, Vice Chancellor, Griffith University *Room A* Recording	Welcome to Gold Coast John-Paul Langbroek MP Member for Surfers Paradise Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Treasurer, Shadow Minister for the Commonwealth Games *Room A* Recording	Introducing the Mascot (and why the survival of the earth depends on frogs) Jean-Marc Hero, Professor, School of Environment, Griffith University *Room A* Recording
9:30 – 10:10	Keynote: Waves of the Future: Possibilities for Higher Education Bryan Alexander, Educator, futurist, speaker, writer bryanalexander.org/ *Room A* Presentation Recording
10:10 – 10:40	Featured speaker: Changing times, emerging generations: a snapshot of the megatrends affecting higher education Mark McCrindle, McCrindle Research *Room A* Presentation Recording
10:40 – 10:45	Announcement *Room A*
10:45 – 11:15	Morning Tea
TRACKS	Learning and Teaching	Library	Clouds	IT Organisations		eResearch	Teaching Support	Vendor Solution
TRACKS	*Room A*	*Room C*	*Room 5*	*Room 6*		*Room 7*	*Room 8*	*Room B*
11:15 – 11:45	Expert in my Pocket: Creating First Person POV Videos Peter Bright, Bill Lord, Helen Forbes, Florin Oprescu, Nigel Barr, Terri Downer, Nicole M Phillips, Lauren McTier, Vilma Simbag and Kristel Alla Full Paper Recording	Perception and Reality: Student IT and Digital Literacy Skills in the Digital Age Lisa Cluett and Jill Benn Presentation	The Software Defined Institution Brett Looney Presentation	Innovating Business Process Jarrod Sharp Presentation		Integrating user support for eResearch services within institutions. Lessons learned from AeRO Stage 2 User Support Project Hamish Holewa and Loretta Davis Presentation	How to set up and run an on-line educational video production service Julie Beesley and Tim Harland	ICT strategies to outperform and succeed Paul Cooney Presentation
11:45 – 12:15	Chemistry Gamification: Students teaching students through gaming Heather Gray, Leigh-Ellen Potter and Peter Healy Presentation Recording	Rethinking staff learning through collaborative online technology and the peer learning experience Megan Saville and Julia Philips Presentation	‘I Just Want Milk that Tastes Like Milk’ – QUT’s Migration of Staff email to the Cloud Michael Boyle and Nathan Howard Presentation	Making your message matter – how to inspire, connect and engage to share your organisation’s activities and outcomes Loretta Davis Presentation		NCI InfiniCloud: Extending high performance InfiniBand capabilities in the NCI OpenStack Clouds Andrew Howard and Jakub Chrzeszczyk	264 students, eight courses, 792 High Definition video streams, no walls Jim Cook and Warren French	The Transformative Classroom: Guiding the Mobile Learning Evolution Rob Roe
12:15 – 12:45	Creating institutional connections and a sense of belonging through cultural awareness and competence Dominique Parrish Presentation Recording	Just-In-Time Learning for Library Research Skills Linda Stern, Peta Humphreys and Craig Patterson Presentation	Data Centre Community of Practice Don Caruana, Laurence Rietberg, and Roy Pidgeon Presentation	Kickstarting Innovation in Higher Education (HE) Neil Thelander Presentation		The HWMD maturity model: A foundational framework to measure effectiveness of institutional research e-infrastructures Hamish Holewa, Malcolm Wolski, Kathy Dallest and Chris McAvaney Full Paper Presentation	Forging productive partnerships between learning, teaching, library, and IT Caroline Steel and Elizabeth Coulter Presentation	Really Big Data - Building a HPC-Ready Storage Platform for Research Datasets Daniel Rodwell Presentation
12:45 – 13:40	Lunch Break
*Digital Poster* 13:00	Designing Academic Posters: an online resource to develop communication skills of doctoral candidates Elizabeth Hardiman Vendor Hall Stage			*Digital Poster* 13:15	Investing in Innovation: The Learning and Teaching Development Fund at AUT Stanley Frielick, Nell Smith, Emily Whitehead and Pam Wyse Vendor Hall Stage
*Digital Poster* 13:30	Sparking true imagination in a Digital Environment Sarah Mccormick and Shawna Sadler Vendor Hall Stage
TRACKS	eResearch	Library	Learning & Teaching	IT Organisations		eResearch	User Support	Vendor Solution
TRACKS	*Room A*	*Room C*	*Room 5*	*Room 6*		*Room 7*	*Room 8*	*Room B*
13:40 – 14:10	RDSI: changing the face of research data storage in Australia Viviani Paz Recording	A Framework for Increasing Staff Capability for Teaching and Learning Across Multiple Sectors Iain Doherty, Christina Del Medico and Ann Wilson Full Paper Presentation	Where does Campus Learning become Online Learning? Emerging trends in learning space design and usage David Gunsberg, Lori Bowe, Richard Kerr and Merv Connell	Unified Collaboration : The Future of Organisation Bruce Callow Presentation		Clusters to Clouds: Pedagogy and Research Training Environment Richard Sinnott	A brave new world: libraries innovating to improve the student IT support experience at the University of Western Australia Jill Benn, Dawn McLoughlin, Roz Howard and Merrilee Albatis	Advance Threat Application Kerwin Lu
14:10 – 14:40	Australian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) – Towards joined-up digital infrastructure for research excellence Markus Bucchorn Recording	A moving target: Assessing the process and progress of learning (50 minutes) Shane Sutherland, Yangama Jokwiro, Kath Fisher, Christine Slade, Terri Downer, Richard Bostwick, Michael Monisse-Redman, Michael Finn, Jacqueline Patten and Alison Poot Presentation	A Real-time Step into Space Kim Tairi and Shane Skidmore Presentation	What’s Collaborative Infrastructure Ever Done for You? - Twenty-Five Years of Network Effect applied to Research and Teaching Peter Elford Presentation		Improving data management practices of researchers using behavioural models framework Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson Full Paper Presentation	Seeing the Big Picture: A Digital Desktop for Researchers Bernard Meade, Christopher Fluke, Richard Sinnott Steven Manos, Neil Killeen, Paul Mignone and Michael Wang Full Paper Presentation	Dell Private Cloud Services and University of Sydney case study Dell Presentation
14:40 – 15:10	Quality over quantity: building an online resource for researchers Cameron Barrie and Patrick Guay Presentation Recording		Video-conferencing and teaching – From outback Queensland to Ireland and back again David Wilson and Tim Gentile Presentation	The Next Generation IT Workforce Dr Nick Tate Presentation		The Australian National Medical Research Data Storage Facility Dr Jeff Christiansen, Mohammed Islam, Dr Derek Van Dyk, Leonie Hellmers and Dr Ian Gibson Presentation	Software Tools Compared To User Education in High Performance Computing Lev Lafayette Full Paper Presentation	Next generation data centre networks – a platform for innovation Chris Gascoigne Presentation
15:10 – 15:35	Afternoon Tea
15:35 – 15:40	Welcome and announcements *Room A*
15:40 – 15:50	Address from Michael Kirby-Lewis, UNSW, President of CAUDIT *Room A*
15:50 – 16:20	Featured speaker: Connecting data to actions for improved learning Cathy Cavanaugh, Director of Teaching and Learning, Microsoft Corporation *Room A* Pre sentation Recording
16:20 – 16:50	Featured speaker: Innovations in publishing; giving control back to authors Virginia Barbour, Executive Officer, Australian Open Access Support Group *Room A* Pres entation Recording
16:50 – 17:30	Keynote: Government as a platform: enabling innovation and digital citizenship with open data, online services and public engagement Pia Waugh, Director Coordination and Gov 2.0, Australian Department of Finance *Room A* *Late change: session cancelled.*

TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015

8:00 – 17:00	Registration Open
8:30 – 9:00	Arrival Tea and Coffee
9:00 – 9:30	Range of activities, including vendor events
9:30 – 10:15	Keynote: Learning Sciences & the Impact on Learning Technologies and Learning Activities Phil Long, Associate Vice Provost for Learning Sciences, University of Texas at Austin *Room A* Presentation Recording
10:15 – 10:45	Featured speaker: How will digital humanities in the future use cultural data? Ingrid Mason, eResearch Analyst, Intersect Australia *Room A* Presentati on Recording
10:45 – 11:15	Morning Tea
TRACKS	MOOC’s	Social Media	eResearch Data	Library		QUESTnet	User Support	Vendor Solution
TRACKS	*Room A*	*Room C*	*Room 5*	*Room 6*		*Room 7*	*Room 8*	*Room B*
11:15 – 11:45	Going massive: Learner engagement in a MOOC environment Stephanie Cook, Tricia Bingham, Stephanie Reid and Li Wang Full Paper Presentation Recording	Social media as a learning community: the good the bad and the ugly Heather Gray, Jarrod Trevathan and Kiran Madisa Full Paper Presentation	Supporting Research Storage at UNSW. Collaboration through Governance Luc Betbeder Presentation	B(uild)YO skilled Data Librarian Karen Visser, Natasha Simons and Kathryn Unsworth		Grokking Wireless Mobility means never standing still Mark Krischer	Integrating IT Stephen Whiteside Presentation	Vendor Presentation HP Presentation
11:45 – 12:15	Innovating today’s learning and teaching to engage tomorrow’s learners and teachers Daniela Signor, Kulari Lokuge Dona and Anne-Marie Chase Prese ntation Recording	"If it doesn't spread, it's dead": Scholarship, social media and popular digital platforms Julie Blakey Presentation	Behind the Cloud - The challenges and solutions in developing a nationwide world class support for NeCTAR services Hamish Holewa, Nick Golovachenko and Sarah Nesbit Presentation	'Let's be brief(ed)': Library design, education pedagogy and service delivery Blair Gardiner, Sarah Charing, Karen Kealy, and Naomi Mullumby Full Paper Presentation		Eduroam AU: Current Status and directions Neil Witheridge Presentation	Balancing Teaching, Research and Administration: who knew Policy Administration was the answer? A suggestion for policy collaboration Nigel Prior and Stuart Ainsworth	What is ACC and why should I care? Brett Looney Presentation
12:15 – 12:45	Vendor Presentation BEarena	ICT Staff Development Community of Practise Paul Nielsen and Shaune Sinclair Presentation	Maintaining the balance: managing the changing dynamics of the cloud Jenny Leonard Full Paper Presentation	Evolving customer engagement: Using mobile technology and gamification to improve awareness of and access to library services David Honeyman and Daniel Walker Full Paper		Network Future: AARNet 4, Science DMZ and SDN David Wilde Presentation	Implementing a university wide IT Service Management Tool Ashton Mossop Presentation	Scaling for the Education Sector: How We Built Australia's Largest Next-Generation Multi-Tenant Solution Simon Sigrè
12:45 – 13:45	Lunch Break
TRACKS								Library
TRACKS								*Room B*
13:00 - 13:30								Supporting Griffith University Education Strategy with Blackboard Managed Hosting Leigh Stevenson and Glenn Philpott Presentation
*Digital Poster* 13:00	Collaboration-on-Demand: the Unified Collaboration Project at Griffith Michael Deayton, Peter Ross, David Tuffley and Malcolm Wolski Vendor Hall Stage			*Digital Poster* 13:15	Introducing intensive mode in business - Building capacity Scarlet An and Deidre Seeto Vendor Hall Stage
*Digital Poster* 13:30	Fusion: from repo to expo Bernadette Houghton Vendor Hall Stage
TRACKS	Student Engagement	Social Media	eResearch Collaboration	Repository Tools		QUESTnet	User Support	Vendor Solution
TRACKS	Room A	Room C	Room 5	Room 6		Room 7	Room 8	Room B
13:45 – 14:15	How Should We Quantify Student Engagement? Perry Samson Recording	Social Media in Higher Education: Strategy and Support for Staff and Students Megan Pozzi and Sue Hutley Presentation	DSpace-CRIS: an Open Source solution for Research Michele Mennielli, Susanna Mornati and Andrea Bollini Presentation	Towards a New Library of Resources for Higher Education Learning and Teaching Philip Hider, Barbara Spiller, Pru Mitchell, Robert Parkes and Raylee Macaulay Full Paper Presentation		Learning about User behaviour and needs from 4 years of Cloudstor Usage Alex Reid Presentation	Talk Nerdy to me Sandra Lammas	Closing the Loop – unstructured data and learning analytics in higher education David Jones Presentation
14:15 – 14:45	ICT as a catalyst for Curriculum reform, or how we paint with our brains Jim Cook and Jai Honeybrook-Carter Recording	Social Media as a professional tool: Gimmick, Godsend or Risk? (50 mins) David Gunsberg and Kim Tairi	ERAI - Eunis Research and Analysis Initiative Johan Bergström Presentation	Curtin Library Rocking the (meta)data Peter Green Presentation		Awesome ELK: Solving (some of) The University of Queensland’s issues with real-time log analysis David Stockdale, Aidan Rowe, Brian Sullivan and Roy Duncan	Knowledge as a tool for change Beth Coleman	Southern Cross University and Huawei – A partnership for growth Matt Smith Presentation
14:45 – 15:15	Is There Any Point in Live-streaming Large First-Year Lectures Lyndsay Ainsworth and Andrew Frapwell Recording	Smart and Connected Campus and how it delivers an improved student experience David Gibson	Semi-Permeable Boundaries: Cross University Collaboration for Innovation Research Howard Errey Presentation	Elements Integration - lets chat about Research Repository and populating Researcher Profiles Leonie Hayes and Anne Harvey		SELinux administration through Puppet Christian Unger	Adapting and Adopting IT Service Management at QUT Avril Grant, Mark McCormack, Peter Marshall and Simon Wilkinson	Living in a Programmable World: The Network is the Classroom Mark Krischer Presentation
15:15 – 15:45	Afternoon Tea
15:45 – 15:50	Welcome and announcements *Room A*
15:50 – 16:00	Address from Helen Carter, Macquarie University, President of ACODE *Room A* Prese ntation
TRACKS								User Support
TRACKS								Room C
16:00 – 16:40	Keynote: KISS Goodbye to roadblocks in scholarly infrastructure Martin Fenner, Technical Lead, Public Library of Science (PLOS) *Room A* Presentation Recording							Knowledge Centred Support within Service Management Framework Paul Jay *Room C* Presentation
16:40 – 17:10	Keynote: Big Data Analytics Paul Muller HP Software VP *Room A* Recording							Debate: Reimaging the University Helpdesk for the Next Generation of Digital Research Skills Dr. Steven Manos, David F. Flanders and Dr. Fiona Tweedie *Room C*
18:30 – 22:00	Conference Dinner

WEDNESDAY, 13 May 2015

8:00 – 16:00	Registration Open
8:30 – 9:00	Arrival Tea and Coffee
9:00 – 9:30	Range of activities, including vendor events
9:30 – 9:35	Welcome and Announcement *Room A*
9:35 – 9:45	Address from Heather Gordon, JCU, President of CAUL *Room A* Presentation
9:45 – 10:30	Keynote: From Information to Meta Knowledge: Embracing the Digitally and Computable Open Knowledge Future Dr. Xiaolin Zhang, Director, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science Room A Presentation Recording
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea
TRACKS	Learning and Teaching	Learning and Teaching	IT	Library		Identity Management	eResearch Support	Vendor Solution
TRACKS	*Room A*	*Room C*	*Room 5*	*Room 6*		*Room 7*	*Room 8*	*Room B*
11:00 – 11:30	Creating Connections in Complexity: discussions at the intersection of big data & learning Theresa Anderson and Simon Buckingham Shum Presentation Recording	Partnerships and collaboration: connecting areas of expertise and experience Dr Lynda Davies and Karin Barac Full Paper Presentation	Reshaping Applications and Business Intelligence at UTS David O'Connor and Susan Gibson Presentation	Experiences from the Research Outputs Team, UQ Library Helen Morgan, Andrew Heath, Fei Yu, and Sarah Evans Presentation		Are we all just staff, students or affiliates? Identity services for community and collaboration Ric Phillips Presentation	BCCVL – improving user experience: a road less travelled Kelly Lennon and Hamish Holewa	Cloud in the Real World; 3 user cases Matt Swinbourne Presentation
11:30 – 12:00	Design Develop Implement - A team-based approach to learning design Deidre Seeto and Panos Vlachopoulos Full Paper Recording	Connecting through integration: blending Pacific approaches with online technologies Judy Taligalu Mcfall-Mccaffery and Stephanie Cook Full Paper Presentation	Making a Difference Using IT Analytics Doug Brown, Adam Rigby and Michael Boyle Presentation	A Shared Leadership Approach to Change Management in Systems Projects Meredith Mooi and Beth Crawter Full paper Presentation		The rapidly changing face of identity management for Higher Education and Research Ric Phillips, Terry Smith, Maria Corpuz and Neil Witheridge Presentation	Dancing to the same tune: how can local and central IT teams work together effectively to enable and transform teaching, learning and research? Rim El Kadi Full Paper Presentation	Student Engagement = Institutional Success: Using Online Technology to Put Research into Practice Ian Smissen
12:00 – 12:30	Copyright and compliance when the law can't keep up: Issues with innovation in online classrooms Alison Makins Full Paper Presentation Recording	Dropbox for Education - Allowing faculty and students to securely share, sync and collaborate DropBox Business	Strategic Torque: Enterprise Architecture & Portfolio Management Matthew Harvey and Naveen Sharma Presentation	Implementing an Electronic Research Notebook (ERN) system: A QUT Library project Philippa Broadley		Identity management challenges? Heath Marks and Terry Smith	Towards 2020: Preparing to support the future university from the IT front line Mark McCormack Presentation	Take Back Control: OEM Maintenance and Life Cycle Myths Exposed Jason Ogden Presentation - S Doyle
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
*Digital Poster* 12:45	What we discovered when we implemented Discovery Michelle Watson and Kayne Richens Vendor Hall Stage			*Digital Poster* 13:00	Expert in my Pocket: Creating First Person POV Videos To Enhance Mobile Learning Peter Bright, Bill Lord, Helen Forbes, Florin Oprescu, Nigel Barr, Terri Downer, Nicole M Phillips, Lauren McTier, Vilma Simbag and Kristel Alla Vendor Hall Stage
*Digital Poster* 13:15	Trends in online Learning Liam Stewart and Maria Cervantes Vendor Hall Stage
TRACKS	Security	Learning and Teaching	IT	QUESTnet		QUESTnet	User Support	Vendor Solution
TRACKS	*Room A*	*Room C*	*Room 5*	*Room 6*		*Room 7*	*Room 8*	*Room B*
13:30 – 14:00	Griffith University, IT Security response to the 2014 G20 Summit Greg Vickers Presentation Recording	Lessons from Griffith - assessing our assessment technology Giuseppe Poli Presentation	Strategic Collaborative Procurement Steve Johnston Presentation	Borderless Computing – Catalyst for IT Change and Innovation via the relocation of the ACU Data Centre Iupati Tumaalii K Nguyen Presentation		Flexible, Secure and Sharable Storage for Researchers Andrew Nielson and Stephen McGregor Presentation	How to mechanize the process of an IT Audit and complete an individual service/application risk assessment using ServiceView Alisha Pham and Chris Parker Presentation	How to drive down costs in one of the most expensive areas of your datacenter Anthony Davis
14:10 – 14:15	Welcome and announcements *Room A*
14:15 – 14:55	Keynote: Better connected education – The future classroom & campus Sue Bryant, Regional Director South Pacific ICT Solutions – Huawei Technologies *Room A* Pre sentation Recording
14:55 – 15:05	Prizes announced *Room A*
15:05 – 15:25	Closing Matters and Conference Close *Room A*
15:25 – 16:00	Afternoon Tea

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