Central Queensland University

Today I'm visiting Central Queensland University, which is a 35 min bus ride from Yeppoon. It's a university with a good number of distance learning students and international students. The visit was with Leone Hinton, who manages the Educational Services and Learning Support section here. She gave a presentation at the lifelong learning conference in which she reflected on approaches to information literacy and librarians in the curriculum. One of her ideas for the future is having a librarian seconded to work within the educational development unit and as part of academic teaching teams.

A random paper by Leone that I found via Google ;-) reflecting on use of Blackboard:
Rossi, D. and Hinton, L. (2005) "Reflections on Practice: Course Development & Online Teaching." Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development, 2 (2). http://sleid.cqu.edu.au/viewarticle.php?id=57

You can also see Leone in some nice little video clips which are in an online tutorial on the literature review at http://www.library.cqu.edu.au/tutorials/litreviewpages/index.htm (in a couple of the Stages of the Literature review) . The contact for this tutorial, by the way, is Debbie Orr who is in the library at CQU and who was one of the key people organising the Lifelong Learning Conference.

Photo by Sheila Webber: Leaf, Yeppoon, June 2006, when it was still sunny.