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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
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8:00 – 8:45 | Arrival Tea and Coffee | |||||||
8:45 – 9:30 |
Opening Ceremonies Bruce Callow, CTO, Griffith University and THETA 2015 Conference Chair |
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Cultural Welcome |
Welcome to THETA |
Welcome to Gold Coast |
Introducing the Mascot (and why the survival of the earth depends on frogs) |
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9:30 – 10:10 |
Keynote: Waves of the Future: Possibilities for Higher Education |
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10:10 – 10:40 |
Featured speaker: Changing times, emerging generations: a snapshot of the megatrends affecting higher education |
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10:40 – 10:45 | Announcement Room A |
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10:45 – 11:15 | Morning Tea | |||||||
TRACKS | Learning and Teaching | Library | Clouds | IT Organisations | eResearch | Teaching Support | Vendor Solution | |
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 |
Perception and Reality: Student IT and Digital Literacy Skills in the Digital Age
Lisa Cluett and Jill Benn |
The Software Defined Institution
Brett Looney |
Innovating Business Process
Jarrod Sharp |
Integrating user support for eResearch services within institutions. Lessons learned from AeRO Stage 2 User Support Project
Hamish Holewa and Loretta Davis |
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 |
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11:45 – 12:15 | Chemistry Gamification: Students teaching students through gaming
Heather Gray, Leigh-Ellen Potter and Peter Healy |
Rethinking staff learning through collaborative online technology and the peer learning experience
Megan Saville and Julia Philips |
‘I Just Want Milk that Tastes Like Milk’ – QUT’s Migration of Staff email to the Cloud
Michael Boyle and Nathan Howard |
Making your message matter – how to inspire, connect and engage to share your organisation’s activities and outcomes
Loretta Davis |
NCI InfiniCloud: Extending high performance InfiniBand capabilities in the NCI OpenStack Clouds
Andrew Howard and Jakub Chrzeszczyk
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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 |
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12:15 – 12:45 | Creating institutional connections and a sense of belonging through cultural awareness and competence
Dominique Parrish |
Just-In-Time Learning for Library Research Skills
Linda Stern, Peta Humphreys and Craig Patterson |
Data Centre Community of Practice
Don Caruana, Laurence Rietberg, and Roy Pidgeon |
Kickstarting Innovation in Higher Education (HE)
Neil Thelander |
The HWMD maturity model: A foundational framework to measure effectiveness of institutional research e-infrastructures
Hamish Holewa, Malcolm Wolski, Kathy Dallest and Chris McAvaney |
Forging productive partnerships between learning, teaching, library, and IT
Caroline Steel and Elizabeth Coulter |
Really Big Data - Building a HPC-Ready Storage Platform for Research Datasets
Daniel Rodwell |
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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 |
Digital Poster 13:15 |
Investing in Innovation: The Learning and Teaching Development Fund at AUT
Stanley Frielick, Nell Smith, Emily Whitehead and Pam Wyse |
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Digital Poster 13:30 |
Sparking true imagination in a Digital Environment
Sarah Mccormick and Shawna Sadler |
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TRACKS | eResearch | Library | Learning & Teaching | IT Organisations | eResearch | User Support | Vendor Solution | |
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 |
A Framework for Increasing Staff Capability for Teaching and Learning Across Multiple Sectors
Iain Doherty, Christina Del Medico and Ann Wilson |
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 |
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 |
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14:10 – 14:40 | Australian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) – Towards joined-up digital infrastructure for research excellence
Markus Bucchorn
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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 |
A Real-time Step into Space
Kim Tairi and Shane Skidmore |
What’s Collaborative Infrastructure Ever Done for You? - Twenty-Five Years of Network Effect applied to Research and Teaching
Peter Elford |
Improving data management practices of researchers using behavioural models framework
Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson |
Seeing the Big Picture: A Digital Desktop for Researchers
Bernard Meade, Christopher Fluke, Richard Sinnott Steven Manos, Neil Killeen, Paul Mignone and Michael Wang |
Dell Private Cloud Services and University of Sydney case study
Dell |
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14:40 – 15:10 | Quality over quantity: building an online resource for researchers
Cameron Barrie and Patrick Guay |
Video-conferencing and teaching – From outback Queensland to Ireland and back again
David Wilson and Tim Gentile |
The Next Generation IT Workforce
Dr Nick Tate |
The Australian National Medical Research Data Storage Facility
Dr Jeff Christiansen, Mohammed Islam, Dr Derek Van Dyk, Leonie Hellmers and Dr Ian Gibson |
Software Tools Compared To User Education in High Performance Computing
Lev Lafayette
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Next generation data centre networks – a platform for innovation
Chris Gascoigne |
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15:10 – 15:35 | Afternoon Tea | |||||||
15:35 – 15:40 | Welcome and announcements Room A |
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15:40 – 15:50 |
Address from Michael Kirby-Lewis, UNSW, President of CAUDIT |
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15:50 – 16:20 |
Featured speaker: Connecting data to actions for improved learning |
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16:20 – 16:50 |
Featured speaker: Innovations in publishing; giving control back to authors |
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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 |
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10:15 – 10:45 |
Featured speaker: How will digital humanities in the future use cultural data? |
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10:45 – 11:15 | Morning Tea | |||||||
TRACKS | MOOC’s | Social Media | eResearch Data | Library | QUESTnet | User Support | Vendor Solution | |
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 |
Social media as a learning community: the good the bad and the ugly
Heather Gray, Jarrod Trevathan and Kiran Madisa |
Supporting Research Storage at UNSW. Collaboration through Governance
Luc Betbeder |
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 |
Vendor Presentation
HP |
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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 |
"If it doesn't spread, it's dead": Scholarship, social media and popular digital platforms
Julie Blakey |
Behind the Cloud - The challenges and solutions in developing a nationwide world class support for NeCTAR services
Hamish Holewa, Nick Golovachenko and Sarah Nesbit |
'Let's be brief(ed)': Library design, education pedagogy and service delivery
Blair Gardiner, Sarah Charing, Karen Kealy, and Naomi Mullumby |
Eduroam AU: Current Status and directions
Neil Witheridge |
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 |
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12:15 – 12:45 | Vendor Presentation
BEarena
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ICT Staff Development Community of Practise
Paul Nielsen and Shaune Sinclair |
Maintaining the balance: managing the changing dynamics of the cloud
Jenny Leonard |
Evolving customer engagement: Using mobile technology and gamification to improve awareness of and access to library services
David Honeyman and Daniel Walker |
Network Future: AARNet 4, Science DMZ and SDN
David Wilde |
Implementing a university wide IT Service Management Tool
Ashton Mossop |
Scaling for the Education Sector: How We Built Australia's Largest Next-Generation Multi-Tenant Solution
Simon Sigrè |
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12:45 – 13:45 | Lunch Break | |||||||
TRACKS | Library | |||||||
Room B | ||||||||
13:00 - 13:30 | Supporting Griffith University Education Strategy with Blackboard Managed Hosting
Leigh Stevenson and Glenn Philpott |
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Digital Poster 13:00 |
Collaboration-on-Demand: the Unified Collaboration Project at Griffith
Michael Deayton, Peter Ross, David Tuffley and Malcolm Wolski |
Digital Poster 13:15 |
Introducing intensive mode in business - Building capacity
Scarlet An and Deidre Seeto |
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Digital Poster 13:30 |
Fusion: from repo to expo
Bernadette Houghton |
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TRACKS | Student Engagement | Social Media | eResearch Collaboration | Repository Tools | QUESTnet | User Support | Vendor Solution | |
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 |
Social Media in Higher Education: Strategy and Support for Staff and Students
Megan Pozzi and Sue Hutley |
DSpace-CRIS: an Open Source solution for Research
Michele Mennielli, Susanna Mornati and Andrea Bollini |
Towards a New Library of Resources for Higher Education Learning and Teaching
Philip Hider, Barbara Spiller, Pru Mitchell, Robert Parkes and Raylee Macaulay |
Learning about User behaviour and needs from 4 years of Cloudstor Usage
Alex Reid |
Talk Nerdy to me
Sandra Lammas |
Closing the Loop – unstructured data and learning analytics in higher education
David Jones |
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14:15 – 14:45 | ICT as a catalyst for Curriculum reform, or how we paint with our brains
Jim Cook and Jai Honeybrook-Carter |
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 |
Curtin Library Rocking the (meta)data
Peter Green |
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 |
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14:45 – 15:15 | Is There Any Point in Live-streaming Large First-Year Lectures
Lyndsay Ainsworth and Andrew Frapwell |
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 |
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 |
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15:15 – 15:45 | Afternoon Tea | |||||||
15:45 – 15:50 | Welcome and announcements Room A |
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15:50 – 16:00 |
Address from Helen Carter, Macquarie University, President of ACODE |
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TRACKS | User Support | |||||||
Room C | ||||||||
16:00 – 16:40 |
Keynote: KISS Goodbye to roadblocks in scholarly infrastructure |
Knowledge Centred Support within Service Management Framework
Paul Jay |
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16:40 – 17:10 |
Keynote: Big Data Analytics |
Debate: Reimaging the University Helpdesk for the Next Generation of Digital Research Skills
Dr. Steven Manos, David F. Flanders and Dr. Fiona Tweedie |
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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 |
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9:35 – 9:45 |
Address from Heather Gordon, JCU, President of CAUL |
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9:45 – 10:30 |
Keynote: From Information to Meta Knowledge: Embracing the Digitally and Computable Open Knowledge Future |
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10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea | |||||||
TRACKS | Learning and Teaching | Learning and Teaching | IT | Library | Identity Management | eResearch Support | Vendor Solution | |
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 |
Partnerships and collaboration: connecting areas of expertise and experience
Dr Lynda Davies and Karin Barac |
Reshaping Applications and Business Intelligence at UTS
David O'Connor and Susan Gibson |
Experiences from the Research Outputs Team, UQ Library
Helen Morgan, Andrew Heath, Fei Yu, and Sarah Evans |
Are we all just staff, students or affiliates? Identity services for community and collaboration
Ric Phillips |
BCCVL – improving user experience: a road less travelled
Kelly Lennon and Hamish Holewa |
Cloud in the Real World; 3 user cases
Matt Swinbourne |
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11:30 – 12:00 | Design Develop Implement - A team-based approach to learning design
Deidre Seeto and Panos Vlachopoulos |
Connecting through integration: blending Pacific approaches with online technologies
Judy Taligalu Mcfall-Mccaffery and Stephanie Cook |
Making a Difference Using IT Analytics
Doug Brown, Adam Rigby and Michael Boyle |
A Shared Leadership Approach to Change Management in Systems Projects
Meredith Mooi and Beth Crawter |
The rapidly changing face of identity management for Higher Education and Research
Ric Phillips, Terry Smith, Maria Corpuz and Neil Witheridge |
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 |
Student Engagement = Institutional Success: Using Online Technology to Put Research into Practice
Ian Smissen |
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12:00 – 12:30 | Copyright and compliance when the law can't keep up: Issues with innovation in online classrooms
Alison Makins |
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 |
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 |
Take Back Control: OEM Maintenance and Life Cycle Myths Exposed
Jason Ogden |
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12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break | |||||||
Digital Poster 12:45 |
What we discovered when we implemented Discovery
Michelle Watson and Kayne Richens |
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 |
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Digital Poster 13:15 |
Trends in online Learning
Liam Stewart and Maria Cervantes |
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TRACKS | Security | Learning and Teaching | IT | QUESTnet | QUESTnet | User Support | Vendor Solution | |
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 |
Lessons from Griffith - assessing our assessment technology
Giuseppe Poli |
Strategic Collaborative Procurement
Steve Johnston |
Borderless Computing – Catalyst for IT Change and Innovation via the relocation of the ACU Data Centre
Iupati Tumaalii K Nguyen |
Flexible, Secure and Sharable Storage for Researchers
Andrew Nielson and Stephen McGregor |
How to mechanize the process of an IT Audit and complete an individual service/application risk assessment using ServiceView
Alisha Pham and Chris Parker |
How to drive down costs in one of the most expensive areas of your datacenter
Anthony Davis |
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14:10 – 14:15 | Welcome and announcements Room A |
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14:15 – 14:55 |
Keynote: Better connected education – The future classroom & campus |
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14:55 – 15:05 | Prizes announced Room A |
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15:05 – 15:25 |
Closing Matters and Conference Close |
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15:25 – 16:00 | Afternoon Tea |