Membership

ACODE currently has 46 institutional members that include most Australian and all New Zealand universities as well as the University of the South Pacific.

Institutional Membership

Membership is open to universities in Australia, New Zealand and the south west Pacific region. Other educational providers in the region may be eligible for Affiliate status. Please contact the secretariat@acode.edu.au to apply or for information on joining.

Institutional Members and representatives

Voting rights
Voting rights are vested only in financial Insitutional Members. Each institution, on payment of the membership fee, shall have one vote. The member designated to attend the meeting of the appointed alternative shall have the right to vote on behalf of his/her institution.

Representation
Institutional Members shall nominate a suitable representative (Nominee) and alternate representative.

Affiliate Status

Affiliate status may be available to other organisations in Australia which are interested in open, distance, flexible and e-learning but which are not universities. Affiliate status shall be granted to such organisations as may be determined from time to time by resolution of the ACODE.

Representation
Affiliates shall be invited to nominate a suitable representative.

Voting Rights
Affiliates shall have no voting rights.

Fees
Affiliates shall not be charged a fee for affiliate status. However, they may be charged a fee for attendance at ACODE activities, as determined by ACODE from time to time.

Affiliate Institutions

Associated Organisations

In recent years ACODE has extended its working relationships with other organisations including Universities Australia, the New Zealand Ministry of Education, ALTC and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR).

In 2003 ACODE signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT).

• Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ)
• The Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
• Ascilite (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education)

Associated Australasian organisations include:

• Educause Australasia
• Education Services Australia (formerly Education.au ltd and Curriculum Corporation)
• Ako Aotearoa (The National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence)
• AICTEC (Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee)