ACODE

Current Activities

ACODE Workshops

ACODE hosts three Workshops each year which provide a professional development forum for those involved in learning and teaching in the higher education sector. Participants hear the latest information, exchange ideas and make contacts - with a focus on enhancing policies and practices for learning and teaching enabled by technology.

ACODE Business and Networking Meetings

ACODE Business and Networking meetings are held three times a year in conjunction with ACODE Workshops. Information relevant to the next ACODE meeting as well as Minutes of prior business meetings and other documentation from ACODE workshops can be found in the ACODE Communication Hub. Meeting information is available only to Members' representatives.

ACODE Learning Technologies Leadership Institute

ACODE hosts a biennial Learning Technologies Leadership Institute (LTLI). This is a residential leadership program aimed at middle managers – academic and non academic who work with learning technologies in the Australasian Higher Education sector and provides an extended professional development opportunity for current and future leaders of Learning and Teaching and e-learning units.

ACODE working parties

ACODE has small working parties currently working on a range of activities such as Strategic Planning, Communications Strategies, Benchmarking, e-Maturity Model (eMM), Learning Technologies Leadership Institute (LTLI) 2010 and Web 2.0 policy development with activities in progress by means of the ACODE Communication Hub (please login to view information).

Action Plan

The following activities have been derived from the ACODE Strategic Plan, strategic planning exercises with member feedback and the ACODE mission.

These activities are intended to maintain current operations and service, and consolidate ACODE's position and introduce new activities. These activities will be conducted within the capacity of ACODE's financial and human resources.

ACODE's Action Plan seeks to deliver the following key strategies/goals of ACODE as identified in our mission.

Strategies and enabling activities:

Continue development of relationships with key bodies

  • Consolidate and expand interaction and collaboration with CAUL, CAUDIT and other affiliate organisations
  • Establish regular meetings with representatives from DEEWR and the Universities Australia
  • Investigate and evaluate the development of relationships with key NZ government and other education bodies
  • Establish relationships within the Office of the Federal Minister for Education
  • Establish regular meetings with representatives from the ALTC

Further develop effective communication strategies

  • Revise and update the ACODE website
  • Develop information for new ACODE members
  • Refine the process of   publicising nominated ACODE activities

Encourage establishment of Special Interest Groups and provide ongoing support

  • Develop protocols to support SIG operation and communication
  • Promotion of SIG opportunities.

Commission research as appropriate

  • Establish a budget allocation for research support
  • Identify ACODE research priorities
  • Establish mechanisms for the promotion and selection of research projects

Support research initiatives from members

  • Develop and promote a cycle of research support opportunities

Maintain regular workshop program

  • Conduct a regular needs analysis of the workshop program
  • Investigate the possibility of ACODE support for international visitors/specialists
  • Establish themes for all ACODE meetings at commencement of each year and publicise

Maintain interactive business meetings

  • Invite the participation of guest presenters on topics of current interest to members
  • Encourage the follow up of 'hot topics'

Initiate one major professional development activity per year

  • Investigate feasibility of distributed professional development for associated staff (e.g. an ACODE roadshow)

Expand professional development opportunities to address needs of staff of member institutions

Support at least one long term development project investigating an area of potential significance (blue skies/horizon project)

  • Establish ACODE commissioned project/s

Publicise outcomes of supported research and development projects

  • Refine ACODE communication mechanisms