1. technology and computing

THETA 2015
Conference Agenda
(Draft 23/2/2015)
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
Track 7
Solutions (Vendors)
SUNDAY, 10 May 2015
13:00 pm – 16:00 pm
Registration open
13:00 pm – 16:00 pm
Meeting space available
17:00 pm –18:30 pm
Conference Welcome Reception
MONDAY, 11 May 2015
8:00 am – 18:30 pm
Registration open
8:00 am – 8:45 am
Arrival tea and coffee
Jean-Mark Hero
9:00 am – 9:10 am
Opening Ceremonies
Bruce Callow
9:10 am – 9:20 am
Professor Ian O’Connor Vice Chancellor Griffith University
9:20 am – 9:30 am
Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate
9:25 am – 9:30 am
Welcome to Country
9:30 am – 10:10 am
Keynote: Waves of the Future: Possibilities for Higher Education Bryan Alexander
10:10 am – 10:40 am
10:40 am – 10:45 am
10:45 am – 11:15 am
Exhibits Open
8:45 am – 9:00am
“Save the Frog and thus the earth”
Featured speaker: Changing times, emerging generations: a snapshot of the megatrends affecting higher education Mark McCrindle
Announcements
Morning tea
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T R A C K S
11:15 am - 11:45 am
Learning and
Teaching
Library
Learning and
Teaching
IT
Organisations
Teaching
Support
eResearch
Expert in my
Pocket: Creating
First Person POV
Videos
Perception and
Reality: Student IT
and Digital Literacy
Skills in the Digital
Age
Preparing
students for
successful online
learning: a case
study
Innovating Business
Process
Forging productive
partnerships
between learning,
teaching and IT
Lisa Cluett and Jill
Benn
Christine
Kimonides,
Cathy Stone and
Chath
Widanapathirana
Integrating user
support for
eResearch services
within institutions.
Lessons learned
from AeRO Stage 2
User Support
Project.
Hamish Holewa
and Loretta Davis
Rethinking staff
learning through
collaborative online
technology
Collaborations
between
academic and
professional staff
can enable
innovative
curriculum change
Peter Bright, Bill
Lord, Helen
Forbes and Florin
Oprescu
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Chemistry
Gamification:
Students teaching
students through
gaming
Heather Gray,
Leigh-Ellen Potter
and Peter Healy
Megan Saville and
Julia Philips
Jarrod Sharp
Caroline Steel and
Elizabeth Coulter
Making your
message matter –
how to inspire,
connect and
engage to share
your organisation’s
activities and
outcomes
264 students, eight
courses, 792 High
Definition video
streams, no walls.
Jim Cook and
Warren French
Amanda Nixon,
Hamish Holewa,
Christopher
McAvaney and
Malcolm Wolski
Fiona Nicolson
Loretta Davis
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm
Creating
institutional
connections and a
sense of belonging
through cultural
awareness and
competence
Just-In-Time
Learning for Library
Research Skills
Linda Stern, Peta
Humphreys and
Craig Patterson
Partnerships and
collaboration:
connecting areas
of expertise and
experience
Kickstarting
Innovation in Higher
Education (HE)
Growing up: The
HWN(M) maturity
model for
institutional
response to eresearch demand
How to set up and
run an on-line
educational video
production service
Experiences from
the Research
Outputs Team, UQ
Library
Julie Beesley
Helen Morgan
Neil Thelander
Karin Barac and
Lynda Davies
Dominique Parrish
12:45 pm – 13:40 pm
Lunch break
Digital Poster 13:00 pm
Designing Academic Posters: an online resource to develop communication
skills of doctoral candidates
Elizabeth Hardiman
Digital Poster 13:30 pm
Sparking true imagination in a Digital Environment
Sarah Mccormick and Shawna Sadler
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T R A C K S
13:40 pm – 14:10 pm
14:10 am - 14:40 pm
eResearch
Learning and
Teaching
IT
Organisation
eResearch
SPUSC
RDSI: changing the
face of research
data storage in
Australia
Where does
Campus Learning
become Online
Learning?
Unified
Collaboration : The
Future of
organisations
Clusters to Clouds:
Pedagogy and
Research Training
Environment
A brave new world:
libraries innovating
to improve the
student IT support
experience
Viviani Paz
David Gunsberg,
Lori Bowe,
Richard Kerr and
Merv Connell
Bruce Callow
Richard Sinnott
Real-time Journey
into Space
What’s
Collaborative
Infrastructure Ever
Done for You? Twenty-Five Years
of Network Effect
applied to Research
and Teaching
Australian
eResearch
Organisations
(AeRO) – Towards
joined-up digital
infrastructure for
research excellence
Library
Quality over
quantity: building an
online resource for
researchers
Kim Tairi and
Shane Skidmore
Cameron Barrie
and Patrick Guay
Jill Benn, Roz
Howard and
Merrilee Albatis
Loretta Davis
Improving data
management
practices of
researchers using
behavioural models
Malcolm Wolski
and Joanna
Richardson
Seeing the Big
Picture: A Digital
Desktop for
Researchers
Bernard Meade,
Christopher Fluke,
Richard Sinnott
and Steven Manos
Peter Elford
14:40 pm – 15:10 pm
A Framework for
Increasing Staff
Capability for
Teaching and
Learning Across
Multiple Sectors
Videoconferencin
g and teaching –
From outback
Queensland to
Ireland and back
again.
Iain Doherty,
Christina Del
Medico and Ann
Wilson
David Wilson
and Tim Gentile
The Next
Generation IT
Workforce
The Australian
National Medical
Research Data
Storage Facility
Nick Tate
Dr Ian Gibson, Dr
Derek Van Dyk
and Leonie
Hellmers
Software Tools
Compared To User
Education in High
Performance
Computing
Lev Lafayette
15:10 pm – 15:35 pm
Coffee break
15:35 pm – 15:40 pm
Welcome and announcements
15:40 pm – 15:50 pm
Address from the President of CAUDIT
15:50 pm – 16:20 pm
Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh Microsoft
16:20 pm – 16:50 pm
Featured speaker: Innovations in publishing; giving control back to authors Dr Virginia Barbour
16:50 pm – 17:30 pm
Keynote: Government as a platform: enabling innovation and digital citizenship with open data, online services and public engagement
Pia Waugh
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TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
8:00 am – 17:00 pm
Registration open
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Arrival tea and coffee
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Range of activities, including vendor events (No morning tea)
10:00 am – 10:05 am
Welcome and announcements
10:05 am – 10:45 am
Keynote: Learning Sciences & the Impact on Learning Technologies and Learning Activities Phil Long
10:45 am – 11:15 am
Featured speaker: How will digital humanities in the future use cultural data? Ingrid Mason
TRACKS
11:15 am 11:45 am
12:15 pm 12:45 pm
Exhibits Open
11:45 am 12:15 pm
M OOC’s
Social M edia
eResearch
Data
Library
QUESTnet
SPUSC
Going massive:
Learner
engagement in a
MOOC environment
Social Media as a
professional tool:
Gimmick, Godsend
or Risk?
B(uild)YO skilled
Data Librarian
Grokking Wireless
Mobility means
never standing still.
Integrating IT
Stephanie Cook,
Stephanie Reid,
Tricia Bingham
and Li Wang
David Gunsberg
and Kim Tairi
Supporting
Research Storage
at UNSW.
Collaboration
through
Governance.
Innovating today’s
learning and
teaching to engage
tomorrow’s learners
and teachers
"If it doesn't spread,
it's dead":
Scholarship, social
media and popular
digital platforms.
Daniela Signor,
Kulari Lokuge
Dona and AnneMarie Chase
Julie Blakey
Karen Visser,
Natasha Simons
and Kathryn
Unsworth
Stephen Whiteside
Mark Krischer
Luc Betbeder
Behind the Cloud
- The challenges
and solutions in
developing a
nationwide world
class support for
NeCTAR
services.
Hamish Holewa
and Nick
Golovachenko
Social media as a
learning community:
the good the bad
and the ugly.
Maintaining the
balance:
managing the
changing
dynamics of the
'Let's be brief(ed)':
Library design,
education
pedagogy and
service delivery
Eduroam AU :
Current State and
directions
Neil Witheridg
Karen Kealy, Blair
Gardiner, Naomi
Mullumby and
Sarah Charing
Evolving customer
engagement: Using
mobile technology
and gamification to
improve awareness
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Corporate lessons
learnt in improving
customer
experience & where
they may apply to
the University
sector
Nigel Prior
Network Future:
AARNet 4, Science
DMZ and SDN
David Wilde
Implementing a
university wide IT
Service
Management Tool
Heather Gray,
Jarrod Trevathan
and Kiran Madisa
cloud
of and access to
library services
Ashton Mossop
Jenny Leonard
Michael Wallace
and David
Honeyman
12:45 pm – 13:45 pm
Lunch Break
Digital Poster 13:00 pm
Collaboration-on-Demand: the Unified Collaboration Project at Griffith
Michael Deayton, Peter Ross, David Tuffley and Malcolm Wolski
Digital Poster 13:30 pm
Fusion: from repo to expo Bernadette Houghton
T R A C K S
Student
Engagement
Social media
How Should We
Quantify Student
Engagement?
Social Media in
Higher Education:
Strategy and
Support for Staff
and Students
13:45 pm - 14:15 pm
Perry Samson
Collaboration
Megan Pozzi and
Sue Hutley
14:15 pm - 14:45 pm
ICT as a catalyst for
Curriculum reform,
or how we paint
with our brains.
Jim Cook and Jai
HoneybrookCarter
eResearch
DSpace-CRIS: an
Open Source
solution for
Research
Michele
Mennielli,
Susanna Mornati
and Andrea
Bollini
ERAI - Eunis
Research and
Analysis Initiative
Johan
Bergström
Repository
Tools
QUESTnet
SPUSC
Towards a New
Library of
Resources for
Higher Education
Learning and
Teaching
Learning about
User behaviour and
needs from 4 years
of Cloudstor Usage
Talk Nerdy to me
Sandra Lammas
Alex Reid
Philip Hider,
Barbara Spiller,
Pru Mitchell,
Robert Parkes and
Raylee Macaulay
Elements
Integration - lets
chat about
Research
Repository Iand
populating
Researcher Profiles
Awesome ELK:
Solving (some of)
The University of
Queensland’s
issues with realtime log analysis
Knowledge as a
tool for change
Beth Coleman
David Stockdale
Leonie Hayes,
Nick Rossow and
Anne Harvey
14:45 pm - 15:15 pm
Is There Any Point
in Live-streaming
Large First-Year
Lectures
Boundaries:
Cross University
Collaboration for
Innovation
Curtin Library
Rocking the
(meta)data
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SELinux
administration
through Puppet
Adapting and
Adopting IT Service
Management at
QUT
Research
Lyndsay
Ainsworth and
Andrew Frapwell
Peter Green
Christian Unger
Avril Grant
Howard Errey
Semi-Permeable
15:15 pm – 15:45 pm
Coffee break
15:45 pm – 15:50 pm
Welcome and announcements
15:50 pm – 16:00 pm
Address from the President of ACODE
16:00 pm – 16:40 pm
Martin Fenner
KISS Goodbye to roadblocks in scholarly infrastructure.
Iupati Tumaalii
Borderless
Computing –
Catalyst for IT
Change and
Innovation via the
relocation of the
ACU Data Centre
Paul Jay
Knowledge Centred
Support within SMF
16:40 pm – 17:10 pm
Rebecca Jacoby – Cisco ITO
Warren Fraser
Data Centres
Community of
Practice
Dr. Steven Manos,
David F. Flanders and
Dr. Fiona Tweedie
Debate: Reimaging the
University Helpdesk for
the Next Generation of
Digital Research Skills
18:30 pm – 22:00 pm
Conference Dinner
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WEDNESDAY, 13 May 2015
8:00 am – 16:00 pm
Registration open
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Arrival tea and coffee
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Range of activities, including vendor events
10:00 am – 10:05 am
Welcome and announcements
10:05 am – 10:15 am
Address from the President of CAUL
Keynote: From Information to MetaKnowledge: Embracing the Digitally and Computable Open Knowledge Future Dr. Xiaolin Zhang
10:15 am – 11:00 am
T R A C K S
11:00 am - 11:30 am
11:30 am - 12:00 am
Learning and
Teaching
Learning and
Teaching
IT
Library
Identity
M anagement
eResearch
Support
Theresa Anderson
and Simon
Buckingham
Shum
Shane Sutherland,
Yangama Jokwiro,
Kath Fisher, and
others
David O'Connor
and Susan
Gibson
Alison Makins
Ric Phillips
Kelly Lennon and
Hamish Holewa
Copyright and
compliance when
the law can't keep
up: Issues with
innovation in online
classrooms
Are we all just staff,
students or
affiliates? Identity
services for
community and
collaboration
Doug Brown,
Adam Rigby and
Michael Boyle
Making a
Difference Using
IT Analytics
Meredith Mooi and
Beth Crawter
Elleina Andrews
Rim El Kadi
The rapidly
changing face of
identity
management for
Higher Education
and Research
Dancing to the
same tune: how can
local and central IT
teams work
together effectively
Matthew Harvey
and Naveen
Sharma
Strategic Torque:
Enterprise
Architecture &
Portfolio
Philippa Broadley
Andrew Howard
and Jakub
Chrzeszczyk
Mark McCormack
Creating
Connections in
Complexity:
discussions at the
intersection of big
data & learning
A moving target:
Assessing the
process and
progress of learning
Deidre Seeto and
Panos
Vlachopoulos
Judy Taligalu
Mcfall-Mccaffery
and Stephanie
Cook
Design Develop
Implement - A
team-based
approach to
learning design
Exhibits Open
12:30 pm - 12:30 pm
Trisha Poole,
Adrian Stagg and
Ari Afflekt
Developing online
learning and
teaching initiatives
Connecting through
integration:
blending Pacific
approaches with
online technologies
Giuseppe
Poli
Lessons from
Griffith - assessing
our assessment
technology.
Reshaping
Applications and
Business
Intelligence at
UTS
Moving Brown’s
Cows : A Devolved
Leadership
Approach to
Change
Management
Implementing an
Electronic Research
Notebook (ERN)
system: A QUT
Library project
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NCI InfiniCloud:
Extending high
performance
BCCVL – improving
user experience: a
road less travelled
Towards 2020:
Preparing to
support the future
university from the
IT front line.
through projectbased course
support
12:30 pm – 13:30 pm
Management
InfiniBand
capabilities in the
NCI OpenStack
Clouds
Lunch Break
Digital Poster 12:30 pm
Michelle Watson and Kayne Richens
What we discovered when we implemented Discovery
HelpDesk
T R A C K S
13:30 pm - 14:00 pm
Introducing
intensive mode in
business - Building
capacity
So you want to be a
cloud-hero?
Strategic
Collaborative
Procurement
Jake Carroll
Steve Johnston
Scarlet An and
Deidre Seeto
‘I Just Want Milk
that Tastes Like
Milk’ – QUT’s
Migration of Staff
email to the Cloud
Michael Boyle and
Nathan Howard
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
14:10 pm – 14:15 pm
Welcome and announcements
14:15 pm – 14:55 pm
John Suffolk - Huawei
14:55 pm – 15:05 pm
Prizes announced
15:05 pm – 15:25 pm
Closing Matters and Conference Close
15:25 pm – 15:45 pm
Coffee break
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