Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Keynote SpeakerIn today's Higher Education settings it is increasingly important that institutions provide and can evidence quality learning experiences and outcomes. For some institutions the provision of Open Educational Resources magnifies the scale and complexity of this challenge.. At the UK's Open University, our OER work encourages maximum sharing and reuse of our open quality materials, but we are increasingly aware that our open users and our formally enrolled students are becoming more sophisticated with their expectation of Higher Learning online. Integrating high quality, new, pedagogically sound products via eBooks and Apps on new platforms such as the iPad and Android tablets is our latest challenge. Our second and related challenge is how we can create the means by which we and our students can manage the social dimensions that contribute to a quality student experience in a distributed environment.
Professor Denise Kirkpatrick commenced in the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience) at the University of Adelaide in May 2012 and has previously worked as an academic and senior leader and manager in open and distance, dual-mode and on-campus universities in Australia and the United Kingdom. She has worked as Pro Vice-Chancellor at the Open University (UK) where she led the strategic development of new media for learning and teaching and at La Trobe University, Australia. She has led the strategic development of open, distance and e-learning in Australian universities including Monash, University of New England and Charles Sturt University. Denise has worked as a consultant in Australia, Europe, South-East Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
She is an international auditor for the Australian Universities Quality Agency and the Austrian Quality Agency. She researches and publishes in the fields of open, distance and e-learning, and quality in Higher Education. Denise was President of the Australasian Council of Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE) from 2003 – 2007 and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Council on Distance and E-learning (ICDE).
