Keynote speakers

Professor Scott's specific areas of research and writing are in strategic change management and leadership in post-secondary and higher education; quality tracking and improvement in universities; identifying what engages students in productive learning and retains them; learning program innovation and evaluation; assessment of professional capability; identifying the optimum role of I.T. as part of a broader approach to learning and the equity implications of its increased use. He gives regular conference addresses on this work, is the author of a wide range of refereed journal articles and his book Change matters: making a difference in education and training is widely used in a number of countries.

He works with a number of overseas countries on effective change management, quality assurance and the use of tracking and improvement systems for learning and teaching. Most recently this work has been with higher education systems in South Africa, New Zealand, Sweden and Finland and with the European Universities’ Association, along with the Canadian Quality Network of Universities.

Dr Goode is a senior lecturer in the School of Business and Information Management at the Australian National University. He has more than ten years managing and designing online information platforms. He is a keen researcher, having published papers in journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Information and Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management and the Journal of Computer Information Systems. Dr. Goode sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Information Systems Education and the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management. His research interests lie in technology adoption, policy and use, open source software and mobile devices. Dr. Goode was awarded the ANU Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Education in 2005. In 2006 he won a national award for early career teaching excellence from the Carrick Institute.

Dr Goode says his enthusiasm for teaching and research derives from a genuine enjoyment of his subject, which took his interest at an early age. "I have loved computers almost since I was born. My parents bought me my first computer when I was seven years old and I fell in love with its electronic promise. I try to bring this passion to my teaching, igniting, in my students', excitement for discovery and creativity. I believe in the future, but think we can learn much from history".

Colin Latchem has more than thirty years' experience of leading and managing educational technology and educational change. In the 1970s, he was a pioneer in the UK in educational television and learning resources and he established the Learning Resources Unit at Stanmillis College of Education (now part of Queen''s University) Belfast, and was a consultant to the UK National Council of Educational Technology.

In Australia, where he now lives and works, he held a professorial position as the Head of the Teaching Learning Group at Curtin University of Technology, Perth until 1998. In this role, he was responsible for academic staff development, open and distance education and educational technology. He also served on the Academic Programs Board of the Open Learning Australia consortium, was national president of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) and undertook major consultancies into, e.g., the University of the South Pacific; satellite USPNet, the Tanami Network, a videoconferencing network for aboriginal communities in the Australian outback, and the Western Australian Telecentre Network. He has written books on multimedia, staff development for open learning, leadership for 21st century learning, telecentres and teacher education through open and distance education. The book on leadership received the 2002 Charles Wedemyer Award for the best book of the year on distance education in the US.

Colin is now a consultant and writer. He works mainly in Australia and the Asia-Pacific although he has also spent a year working in the Caribbean on a Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation consultancy.