Morrison, Deacon & Stadler on designs for learning

Interdisciplinarity has recently become a focus of research and innovation in Australian universities. The traditional university structures, however, have not historically supported cross-faculty collaborations. This talk is about the challenges of working across faculties, forming and maintaining research teams, and producing measurable outcomes in one university setting. Three case studies of ongoing projects investigating sociotechnical issues are used to illustrate some of the challenges faced by researchers crossing the faculty divide.

Weiqin Chen, Jan Dolonen and Lars Eirik Rønning got the paper “Learning OO with Peers” accepted at ICCE 2005 .

Palmyre Pierroux will be presenting a paper at the conference “Re-thinking technology in museums” to be held in Limerick, Ireland on June 29-30th.

The first Nordic Design Research Conference will be held in Copenhagen from May 29-31st in 2005. This is an important interdisciplinary venue for design related research. InterMedia has had a full paper accepted: Morrison, A. Deacon, A. & Stadler J. ‘Designs for learning about film spectatorship’. Andrew Morrison has developed the paper in conjunction with […]

Even Westvang and Andrew Morrison visited the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town on our joint project (ICT-UCT) into assisting Humanities staff to use ICTs in their teaching and research. We worked on the project website. Even gave an in-house seminar on web development. Andrew gave a research seminar to the […]

Synne Skjulstad and Andrew Morrison have had an article on dynamic interfaces accepted by Computers and Composition. Due out soon! This has been a long process or finding out how to write about co-designing the BallectroWeb at InterMedia. This web focuses on video and project based research reporting and wasdeveloped Flash and XML.