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Pre-conference workshops
Full day Workshops
Doctoral Consortium
John Hughes
For those delegates who are currently studying towards a PhD, those delegates who would like to undertake PhD study and those delegates who are completing a Masters thesis.
SODIS
Don Gotterbarn
The aim of this workshop is to show participants how to expose students to leading edge research in ethically sensitising software management and to experience using an innovative software tool to aid project management decision making regarding risk identification and mitigation. It is hoped that attendees may subsequently choose to participate in a nationwide NACCQ research project using the SODIS software.
E-NNOVATION The Glass Bead Game
Stephen Skelton
The success of today’s educational institutions hinges on successful e-education strategies. This involves integrating good innovation and planning with learning technologies. Bridging the gap will be a challenge for teachers and learners alike in these coming years. Compared to other countries, innovation is part of the Kiwi culture, form Sir Earnest Rutherford to Sir Edmund Hilary, the pioneering spirit is internationally known and respected. How do we bring that same spirit into learning technologies? How exactly do we move forward in this spirit of innovation so that these learning technologies engage both the teachers and the learner? What does it mean to be an innovator?
This workshop will examine these issues and guide you through a series of processes designed to explore innovation in new media, using the example of games and interactive television.
Half day workshops
Object Role Modelling with VisioModeler
Clare Atkins
This practical half-day workshop will introduce the basic principles of Object-Role Modelling (ORM) and show how it can be used as a robust method for the design of relational databases. The latest version of Microsoft's Visio now provides support for this method and it is used by Microsoft developers for their own in-house development. Based on the idea of specifying user's information requirements in natural language, i.e. as formal elementary sentences, ORM provides an interesting alternative to the use of ER diagrams. The sentences and their accompanying examples are used by VisioModeler to determine both the structure and the constraints necessary to automatically derive a 5NF database schema. VisioModeler also provides a detailed natural language report that can be used as the definitive means of gaining user acceptance for a logical database design.
Dr Clare Atkins, currently at NMIT, will take this workshop which is based on a similar one she has delivered as part of postgraduate programmes both at Massey University and the University of Melbourne.
E-Commerce Qualifications
Trevor Nesbitt
A number of institutions are developing local qualifications in eCommere/eBusiness, while others are introducing eCommerce/eBusiness specialisations into their existing qualifications.
This workshop will provide an opportunity to explore what others are doing, and how the development has taken place (including the need to be able to wear different hats) and discuss the relative successes of what has been attempted to date. Information from Australian academics will also be looked at to provide some insight as to what has been done in Australia and in other parts of the world.
An opportunity exists for participants to engage in some collaborative research as a result of discussions at the workshop.
CIC/NDBC workshop
Garry Roberton
The eighth edition of the New Zealand Polytechnic Qualifications in Business Computing (Blue Book), valid until November 2002, incorporates new prescriptions an changes and updates to the regulations and to existing prescriptions. The contents of the current version reflect the many contributions and suggestions submitted over a two year period via the SIG’s and by the previous conference workshop participants. This workshop provides an opportunity for participating in the ongoing review process, essential for ensuring that the contents of the Blue Book reflect the current knowledge and practice of a rapidly evolving and ever-changing Computing and Information Technology industry
A Step-wise approach to establishing a research culture
Kay Fielden
This workshop will lead participants through the steps required to setup a research community within member institutions of the NACCQ sector. An initial outline will be provided outlining a multi pronged step-wise approach to supporting a dynamic and active research community including strategic direction from all levels organizationally, operational factors required for a supported research community to survive and grow, mentoring of new and existing researchers, educational structures for starting new researchers and day-to-day “on the ground” support. Cross fertilisation of ideas, establishing research networks, supporting researchers to become established and forming strategic research alliances at the grass roots level will all be discussed in this workshop.
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