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6:00 - 6:15
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Welcome
(553-2)
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6:15 - 7:30
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Keynote
Speaker (553-2)
Robin
Allardyce
Director
of Instructional Television at
Carleton
University, Ottawa, Ontario.
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Beyond the
Classroom: Education for a New Millennium
Robin Allardyce
"Plus ca change, plus c'est
pareil". Will we get beyond this axiom with real
and effective changes in education for the new
millennium? How will we reconcile the gap between
the promise of the benefits of student centered
learning with the need to clarify and implement the
role of the instructor in this changing milieu? Add
the "new" media to the mix and attempt to meet
these needs within the limitations of the fiscal
realities of our current times and the challenge
becomes really interesting.
Both in the classroom and
beyond, learners are changing. The means of
delivering, accessing and participating in learning
are changing. Demands on the public education
system to be more accountable and effective are
growing. The private sector is carving a niche for
training and, to a measure, is working to provide
education for a competitive price. What is the role
of the Educational Technologist in all of this? It
is to build on the strength of traditions in
non-traditional ways; to patiently guide and
support those learning and building within these
changing structures. It is to know when to move
quickly and decisively in a complex political and
fiscal environment to ensure that real gains are
made in a responsible manner. It is to ensure that
learning is presented as a process which can
liberate, enhance, and be welcomed by learners in
the vast variety of situations to be faced by them
over a lifetime.
Demanding - yes. Intimidating
- on occasion. Invigorating - definitely. These are
some of the challenges affecting education within
the classroom and beyond now and for the
foreseeable future.
Biography
Robin Allardyce, B.A.A., M.A
(Ed Tech) (in progress)
Robin Allardyce is the
Director of Instructional Television at Carleton
University, Ottawa. His professional training
includes a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Radio and
Television from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute,
Toronto and a Master of Arts in Educational
Technology from Concordia University, Montreal. He
has worked in the field of education since 1968 as
an elementary school teacher, a college audio
visual centre manager, an educational media
producer/director, a continuing education
instructor, a private sector video
producer/director, and currently is responsible for
the development and management of the University's
instructional television system (itv) which is used
as an alternative mode of course delivery to
students both on-campus and at a distance.
He joined Carleton University
in 1974 and practiced his craft as a television
producer /director and course materials designer
for the production of instructional materials both
as a member of the University staff and as an
independent producer. These productions ranged from
NMR Spectroscopy training materials for use by
university students to developing and producing
training and orientation materials for Canada's
Departments of Foreign Affairs and National Defense
for use overseas and in Canada. He has several
hundred productions to his credit and continues to
play a role in course and program design for the
University.
Mr. Allardyce moved into the
field of distance and alternative delivery mode
education in 1989. Since this time, he has focused
on the refinement and further development of the
University's Instructional Television system (itv).
His interest in this task is to develop a flexible,
mediated open learning system that will allow
students to move to and from full-time status, to
be able to access courses from on and off-campus,
to be able to continue to take the courses they
require for their programs without interruption due
to financial or personal impediments and to make
available, through this open learning system, the
best possible instructional and learning support
resources to both course instructors and on- and
off-campus students.
He is a member of the
Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE),
the Ontario Council for University Lifelong
Learning (OCULL), the Distance Education
Sub-Committee of OCULL, the Association for Media
and Technology in Education in Canada (AMTEC), the
Ottawa Distance Learning Group (ODLG) and the
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education (STLHE). His interests include
educational systems development, educational
materials design and production, learning
assessment, and integration of distance with
on-campus learning processes, technologies and
support needs.
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