Engaging learners through innovative practice
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Jason Clarke – In 1977 Jason achieved the lowest Year 12 score in the history of his school. Today he is one of the most sought after creative thinkers in the country and the founding father of Minds at Work, a commercial collective of professional thinkers hell bent on changing the world. Jason has staged operas from Covent Garden and La Scala, conceived and designed multi-million dollar tourist attractions and won international awards for his work in the commercial film industry. Jason has developed and taught courses in Innovation, Logic and Problem Solving for two of Australia’s most prestigious Business Schools, the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship and the Stern Business School of New York. | |
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Dr Adrian Bertolini – Adrian has been training individuals, businesses and schools around Australia in inquiry-based learning for the past 12 years. Adrian's background is eclectic, starting life as an engineer with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering before teaching Aerospace Engineering at RMIT University for 5 years. It was during this time he developed his passion for inspiring educational pedagogy. Adrian redeveloped the ruMAD? (aRe yoU Making A Difference) program for the Education Foundation taking it from a small Victorian program to one being delivered nationally. ruMAD? is acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent inquiry-based learning models in the country, winning the 2009 Garth Boomer Award for curriculum development. | |
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Anne Bartlett-Bragg - Anne specialises in the creation of innovative communication networks and learning environments with social software. Her design for the first national mentoring program (MentorNet) for young women entrepreneurs in 2007, developed entirely in social software won the Best Mentoring Program at the LearnX Asia Pacific 2010 Awards where Anne also won Best Use of Social Learning Tools. Anne works at the University of Technology, Sydney in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences lecturing in organisational learning and e-Learning subjects. Anne is near completion of her PhD which has explored the adult learners’ experiences of developing learning networks through self-publishing technologies such as weblogs. | |
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Dr Curtis Bonk – Curt Bonk is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at the School of Education at Indiana University, USA. He is author of the Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs (2006) as well as Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008). Curt has received the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association, Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program from the State of Indiana. Curt is President and Founder of CourseShare and a well-known authority on emerging technologies for learning. Curt reflects on his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan. | |
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