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Winners of the Australian Regional Learning Impact Awards Finals


We would like to extend our congratulations to the following three winners of the Australian Regional Finals for the IMS Learning Impact Awards (LIA) 2010, announced at the IDEA10 series of events:

  1. Winner - Tasmanian Polytechnic and Skills Institute: 'Mobile Assessment and Online Recognition using QTI solutions'
  2. First Runner-up - Education Services Australia (ESA): 'Personal / Professional learning network'
  3. Second Runner-up - Western Sydney Institute of TAFE: 'Mobilae - mobile learning, assessment and evidence gathering'

The three winners are now invited to showcase their entries at the Learning Impact 2010, to be held at Long Beach, California from 17 - 20 May 2010. This year's judging panel included:

  • Dr. Rob Abel - CEO of IMS Global Learning Consortium
  • Deborah Hamilton - Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
  • Dr. Kathryn Moyle - University of Canberra
  • Rodney Spark - Executive Director of e-Works
  • Ross Treadwell - Education Works, Department of Education and Children's Services (DECS) South Australia

Alongside the top three Finalists, two Encouragement Awards were also given out to entries that demonstrated a high level of quality in addressing technology challenges facing education:

  1. eMarking Assistant and the University of Southern Queensland - 'eMarking Assistant'
  2. University of Southern Queensland - 'Adoption of Tablet and screencasting technologies for multi-modal education'
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LIA10 Winners

From left to right:

Rodney Spark (Judge), Dr. Kathryn Moyle (Judge), Paul Wray (2nd Runner-up), Dr. Peter Evans (Encouragement Award), Dr. Birgit Loch (Encouragement Award), Peter Higgs (Winner), Dr. Rob Abel (Judge), Jerry Leeson (1st Runner-up and Peoples' Choice Award) and Ross Treadwell (Judge)

Delegates attending the IDEA10 series of events were also given the opportunity to vote for their favourite LIA entries during the LIA 'speed dating' event. This year's LIA Peoples' Choice was awarded to ESA's 'Personal / Professional learning network' entry.

Details of all of the Australian finalists may be found at:
http://www.linkaffiliates.net.au/idea10/events/lia10.html

The LIAs and Recognition Program recognises outstanding applications of technology that address the most significant challenges facing education. The awards are unique for their recognition of the use of technology in context.

IMS Global Learning is a nonprofit member organization that strives to enable the growth and impact of learning technology in higher education, K-12, and corporate education worldwide. IMS GLC members are leading corporations, higher education institutions, school districts and government organizations worldwide that are enabling the future of education by developing interoperability standards and adoption practices for educational and learning technology. IMS GLC also sponsors Learning Impact: a global awards program and conference that recognizes the impact of innovative technology on educational access, affordability and quality.


Posted in March 2010

 

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