Overview of Access Ace Managers stream presented by Michael Chalk, PRACE

2. Michael Chalk

4. Spread across the metropolitan and regional areas of Victoria

5. Large and small organisations

6. RTO and non RTO

8. Two face to face meetings with all participants

9. Members conducted their own local projects

10. A regional visit to Bendigo

12. Knowledge management for leaders

13. One participant developed a comprehensive evaluation tool for web 2.0 technology and its potential for use in ACE

15. Initial concern that many participants weren’t focusing on “strategic” or “leadership” issues. (But it was later recognised that this reflected the “base” from which most participants were starting)

16. Leaders encountered resistance within their organisations in every case

18. Increased organisational capacity for e learning

19. Development of tools for use in the ACE sector as a whole (e.g. online surveys for AQTF compliance, web 2.0 evaluation model, professional development plans)

20. Identification of common issues and challenges to be overcome

21. Development of successful strategies for overcoming challenges in a range of organisations and situations …and not least the development of a sense of “community” via the Ning and the emergence of a sense of ACE knowledge base that can be built upon in the future.

23. Build a guiding team

24. Establish the need

25. Communicate the “buy in”

26. Create short term wins

29. What is blended delivery? Blended delivery combines the best features of classroom-based teaching and learning with the best features of ICT enabled learning in order to enhance the educational experience of learners and also provide students with greater flexibility to access a wider range of learning opportunities. http://www.acfe.vic.edu.au/

30. The future – integration and embedding …innovative practices that promote incremental change and add variety, choice and flexibility to existing practice are more likely to be adopted because dominant models are difficult to change without a concerted and sustained effort. Jasinski, M. 2006. Innovate, integrate

32. To research, describe and trial at 10 ICT enabled blended delivery models.

33. To develop action plans and a lessons learnedreport to assist ACE providers in planning blended delivery strategieshttp://www.acfe.vic.edu.au/

34. Research questions What does clever use of ICTs in ACE mean and look like? What could clever use of ICTs in ACE mean and look like? http://www.acfe.vic.edu.au/

35. AccessACE Research Perspectives

37. Report: Lessons learned in blended learning : a guide for managing and teaching

38. Support wiki at http:// www.acfe.vic.edu.au

40. Organisational snapshots

42. prace.acfe.vic.edu.au

43. http://coonara.acfe.vic.edu.au/

46. making sure gadgets are available as required (projector, camera, mp3 players etc)

47. extending our reach through increasing the online communication capacity of blended courses,

48. expanding into fee-for-service, supporting local organisations and networks.PRACE

50. Focus for 2009: Reach Retention Results Recruitment

51. Organizational Leadership

52. Classroom practice

53. Show and tell event and world café event