“Building Common Services for Education through
Service Orientated Architecture and Learning Technology Standards”
7-9 November 2007
Co-Sponsored by: Ministry of Education New Zealand and IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
Queenstown, New Zealand
The Crowne Plaza Hotel New Zealand
The New Zealand Ministry of Education is proud to be hosting the IMS Global Learning Consortium quarterly meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand, in November 2007.
These meetings, open forum and workshops will involve a wide range of stakeholders including representatives from New Zealand’s education sector and international consortia.
Further details about the event will be posted on this website as they are confirmed. If you have any questions, please email the New Zealand Ministry of Education: ICT.Sector@minedu.govt.nz.
NB: November is a busy time of year in Queenstown, so if you are intending to attend this event, we recommend that you book your flights and accommodation now.
The Public is invited to attend all events in green.
Wednesday: 7 November
Time |
Events |
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8:30 |
Registration and Refreshments |
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9:00 |
Welcome from Rob Abel and Murray Leach |
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9:30 |
Achieving Learning Impact (Rob Abel) |
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10.30 |
Morning Tea courtesy of Hewlett-Packard |
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The New Zealand Learning Impact Awards Entries will be showcased in the Atrium from 10.30-2.00 pm |
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11:00 |
Shared services in the New Zealand Education Sector (Catherine Williams and Keith Marshall). |
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11:30 |
Common Services Federation (James Dalziel and Martin Rothbaum) |
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12:30 |
The Datacom Lunch |
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| Stream 1 | Stream 2 | |
1:30 |
Learning Specifications and their Usage (Colin Smythe) |
ACODE presentation: e-Learning benchmarks (Christine Goodacre, La Trobe University) |
2:30 |
Beyond Static Content: The Common Cartridge (Sandy Britain) |
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3:30 |
Afternoon Tea courtesy of Hewlett-Packard |
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4.00 |
New Zealand Learning Impact Award Forum – Entrant Q&A Session |
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Thursday: 8 November
| 8:30 | Registration and Refreshments |
9:00 |
E-Learning from a New Zealand and International perspective (Murray Brown & James Dalziel). Followed by an audience discussion: “What will it take for e-Learning to take off” |
10.30 |
Morning Tea courtesy of Hewlett-Packard |
11:00 |
Saying what you mean & doing what you say: Learning Technologies and the New Zealand Tertiary Education Reforms (Doug Sutton and Michelle Jordan-Tong) |
11:45 |
An overview of Advanced Distributed Learning (Daniel Rehak) |
12.30 |
The IBM/FileNet Lunch |
1:30 |
Panel discussion: Issues in the development of library repositories
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3:00 |
Domain modelling in the Education Sector (John Fisher) |
3:30 |
Afternoon Tea courtesy of Hewlett-Packard |
| 4:00 | Panel discussion: The challenges of International Collaboration using a Service Oriented Approach (Featuring representatives of the e-Framework) |
| 5:00 | Announcement of New Zealand Learning Impact Awards winner |
| 7:00 | Sun Microsystems Gala dinner |
Friday: 9 November
| 8:30 | Refreshments |
9:00 |
The New Zealand Digital Strategy (Penny Carnaby) |
9:45 |
The benefits of collaboration: Massey University’s RUBRIC experience (Gerrit Bahlman) |
10:30 |
Morning Tea courtesy of Hewlett-Packard |
11:00 |
The Cyber Home Learning System (Korean Education and Research Information Service) |
11:30 |
NZ Education panel discussion:
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1:00 |
Address from Sun Microsystems, Gold Sponsor for the summit. |
1.15 |
Closing address (Rob Abel and Murray Leach) |
| 1:30
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The Microsoft Lunch |