1. Employing the new educational technologist: a call for evidenced change
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25th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Melbourne, Australia 30 November - 3 December 2008, Shurville, Simon John, Browne, Tom, and Whitaker, Marian
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organisational structure ,ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION ,educational technologist ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,educational technology and computing ,management ,flexible learning - Abstract
Flexible technology-enhanced learning environments, both educationally and institutionally are key enablers for delivering efficient mass higher education. Educational technologists make significant contributions to the development and organisational embedding of such environments. Their emerging role is complex as it requires current knowledge and skills in learning and teaching, management and information technology. Given the strategic importance of the contributions that educational technologists now make to their institutions, we propose an international program of empirical research to analyse current issues and future trajectories relating to their aspirations, careers, management and organisational locations Refereed/Peer-reviewed
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- 2008