Victorian Directors of Information Technology eLearning Forum

Associate Professor Richard Constantine, Chief Information Officer and Director, Information Technology Services and Matthew Smith, Associate Director, IT Governance Strategy and Planning

For many years Swinburne has used separate and independent LMS’s in our TAFE and Higher Education sectors. In response to a management directive that all Student and Staff should use a single, unified LMS, Swinburne looked to Blackboard Hosting as a way to deliver this project. In addition to financial benefits, Swinburne’s use of a hosted solution delivers significant non-financial benefits. These benefits include outcomes such as resource flexibility, service level improvements and removing the distraction of managing technical issues allowing staff to remain focused on the main challenge of implementing a single LMS solution.

This presentation will outline Swinburne’s progress to date including the decision making process, key benefits and risk considerations, the experience to date and way forward as Swinburne progresses towards a single hosted LMS.

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Dr Garry Allen, Principal Advisor Academic ICT Integration, RMIT

At the end of 2010 RMIT will complete a three year program addressing strategic development in its elearning capability. The program, which is described at: www.rmit.edu.au/reap has been undertaken in three phases across

1. Minimum online presence,
2. Enhanced learning environments and
3. Active learning.

This presentation will cover the outcomes from REAP that are relevant to other University contexts, along with trend directions for learning technologies that influence university-level planning.

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