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Grad Dip. Bus Admin, BA (Hons), Dip Ed, M. Ed. Admin, EdD
( cand.), AFAIM
The Impact of E-commerce on Open Learning Systems Australian Vocational
Education and Training Research Association, Mar. 2000
Framing the Future: An E-commerce Operation Australian National
Training Authority, Dec. 1999
Re-framing the Future Australian National Training Authority, Mar.
2000
Evaluation of LearnScope - National Flexible Delivery Project Australian
National Training Authority, Feb. 2000
E-business Springboards Office of Vocational Education and Training,
Tas. 2000
E-competent Australia, Australian National Training Authority,
2000
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Workshop presenter of "Is E-business Your Business",
a set of workshops for senior managers in TAFE SA, April-May 2000
Evaluator of the ANTA LearnScope Project, a national professional
development project in the development of skills in flexible delivery,
September 1998 - January 2000
Facilitator and Evaluator of the ANTA Fellowship Scheme, a national
professional development project for senior VET staff to prepare
change management plans for flexible delivery, September 1998 -
August 1999
Project Manager of the OnFX Consortium’s ANTA Toolbox Project,
a national project in online course development, October 1998 -
August 1999
Market Research Study for commercial client on the current and
future trends in online learning, April 1999
Author of Strategic Plan for Supporting Learning Using New Technologies,
Primary Industries Program, SA TAFE, March 1999
Author of Strategic Plan for Supporting Learning Using New Technologies,
Tourism and Hospitality Program, SA TAFE, March 1999
Benchmarking Consultant in Flexible Delivery for the SA TAFE Primary
Industries, Tourism and Hospitality Program, April 1999 - June 2000
Co-author of OTFE report: "A Planning Model for Innovation:
New Learning Technologies" (1997)
Co-author of NBEET study "Education and Technology Convergence"
(January 1996), a national survey of technological infrastructure
in education and the professional development and support of educators
and trainers in information and communication technologies.
One of Australia's leading project managers in open learning, flexible
delivery and online learning in TAFE/VET. Managed 7 national projects
in open learning from 1991-1999, including National Project on Staff
Development in Open Learning in TAFE in 1992. Evaluator of three
national projects in flexible delivery 1998-2000. Regular keynote
speaker at national open learning conferences. Specialist in the
management of change to open learning.
Considered the national leader in the design and management of
educational videoconferencing. Pioneered and managed SA TAFE’s
videoconferencing network, Australia's most sophisticated videoconferencing
network, 1990-92. Presented with National Productivity in Educational
Technology Gold Award in 1991.
Consulted to 15 universities and ANTA, OLA, OLTC, NBEET, QLD TAFE,
OTFE, SA TAFE, 1992-2000.
Articles on John Mitchell, his company and its projects, appeared
in Business Review Weekly on 20 November 1995 and in The Australian,
26 March, 2 April and 30 April 1996.
John Mitchell and Associates was established in 1992, initially
specialising in open learning planning and management.
Previous appointment: Manager, Open Learning, SA DETAFE (1990-92)
overseeing open learning developments throughout South Australia.
Prominent in national open learning developments.
Began with TAFE SA in 1974. Worked at 4 metropolitan and 2 country
colleges, including a period as Acting Principal of Light College.
Specialised in the management of change to open learning systems.
Introduced learning centres, College based open learning systems
and a departmental videoconferencing network in TAFE SA.
The consultancy services provided in open learning, flexible delivery
and online learning include:
- strategic planning
- project management
- feasibility studies
- research and evaluation
- policy development and analysis
- change management
- staff development
- cost-benefit analysis.
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- Le Cordon Bleu (France)
- Open Learning Agency of Australia (OLA)
- Australian National Training Authority (ANTA)
- Office of Training and Further Education (OTFE), Victoria
- Framing the Future
- Open Learning Technology Corporation (OLTC)
- National Board of Employment, Education and Industry (NBEET)
- Melbourne College of Textiles
- Catholic Education Office, Sydney
- TAFE National Staff Development Committee
- South Australian TAFE: Primary Industries, Tourism and Hospitality
Program
- South Australian TAFE: Information Technology Program
- Douglas Mawson Institute of TAFE
- WA Department of Employment and Vocational Education and Training
- Australian Information Technology and Engineering Centre
- University of Adelaide
- University of South Australia
- Flnders University
- University of New England
- Australian Graduate School of Management
- Central Queensland University
- Australian Catholic University
- University of Western Sydney
- University of Charles Sturt
- University of Queensland
- Australian National University
- the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Melbourne
University
- SA Food & Beverage Industry Training Council
- Securities Institute of Australia
- Tanami Network Pty Ltd
- Telstra
- AAP Communications Services
- PictureTel Australia
- Australian Network Productions
- NWS Channel 9
- Video Communicators
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Co-Presenter on Change Management Models for Flexible Delivery
to ANTA NETWorking 99 Conference, Melbourne, August 1999
Co-Evaluator of TAFE Queensland's Videostreaming Trials, 1999
Author of Final Report on the Evaluation of LearnScope 1998-99,
August 1999, February 2000
Author of Final Report on Evaluation of the ANTA Flexible Delivery
Fellowship Scheme, 1998-99
Co-author of Self-Evaluation Report by the OnFX Consortium for
ANTA, August 1999
Reviewer of NCVER Report: The effects of different modes of
delivery: student outcomes and evaluations, March 1999
Author of report, Videoconferencing for Le Cordon Bleu (France),
January 1999
Author of report, Cost Effectiveness of Videolinq Usage
Per Site/Institute, for TAFE Queensland, December 1998
Author of report, Videoconferencing in Australian Schools,
October 1998
Co-author of Report: Design of a Video Teaching Station for
Charles Sturt University, October 1998
Presentation to Australian Society of Educational Technology national
conference, "Effective Business Models for Implementing
Educational Technology", July 1998
Author of report, The Cost Effectiveness of Videolinq, based
on an analysis of five modules delivered at Central Queensland Institute
of TAFE, July 1998
Author of report for TAFE SA IT Program on options for developing
online materials, March 1998
Co-author of Evaluation of Electronic Image Assembly 1:
a CD-ROM/Internet Hybrid, November 1997
Co-author of A Planning Model for Innovation on
new learning technologies, for the Office of Training and Further
Education, Victoria, 1997
Co-author, NBEET study, Education and Technology Convergence,
Jan. 1996
Project Manager of 25 Innovative Teaching and Learning Projects,
University of South Australia, Feb-Dec, 1996
Presentation to LETA Conference, October 1996, on "Strategies
for Managing Educational Technologies"
Author of report: Building a National Videoconferencing Network,
Evaluation Report on the Videoconferencing Trials at the Australian
Catholic University, December 1995
Trends in Educational Technology. A presentation to the
National Council of the Securities Institute of Australia. November
1995
Author of report for the Securities Institute of Australia, Strategic
Videoconferencing. Report on the Suitability of Videoconferencing
for Delivering the Securities Institute of Australia’s Lectures.
October 1995
Co-author of "Survey of Telematics for Education and Training.
Vol. iv Australia." A report for the European Commission.
May 1995
Author of report for Australian Graduate School of Management,
Hasten Slowly, June 1995
Co-author of report for OLA: Computer based administrative
productivity tools for educators and trainers: An Open Net Project.
April 1995
Author of report, Future Directions for Technologies in Teaching
and Learning in Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of Sydney,
January 1995
Author of report for Archdiocese of Sydney: Evaluation Report
on VIDSAT- the satellite and cable videoconferencing network in
Catholic Schools, February 1995
Workshop convenor on A Professional Management Guide for
Your Videoconferencing Network, for Videoconferencing Summit
‘94, conducted at Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore, 16 November
1994
Consultant, Open Learning Agency Australia, for the establishment
of the Open Learning Electronic Support Service, OLESS (later, Open
Net), June- December 1994
Consultant to Open Learning Technology Corporation, Jan-June 1994
Consultant to Open Learning Australia, June-December 1994
Project Manager for DEET report Tanami Network. Flourishing
but Fragile, Jan-May 1994
Project Manager for DEET report, Use of Interactive Video
Tapes for Learners of English as a Second Language, February-May
1994
Consultant for report Feasibility Study regarding the allocation
of funds for videoconferencing facilities to support the wine industry
AVC project. June 1994
Project Director and lead author of the Evaluation of Video-conferencing
in Higher Education, commissioned by NBEET/DEET, published
1994
Design of options analysis and functional specifications for the
telelecturing component of the Australian Information and Technology
Engineering Centre, April 1993
Conducting of three seminars for the Australian National University,
on the management, methodology and technological aspects of videoconferencing,
May 1993
Research into use of videoconferencing for exporting education
to Asia for the Economic Development Authority of SA and Telecom
Australia, March 1993
Project management advice to the Queensland Government on establishing
their Videoconferencing Bureau Network, 1993
Design of a methodology guide and delivery of a Train the Trainer
course for the Victorian TAFE system, May 1993
Planning advice to WA DEVET on implementing their videoconferencing
network, 1993
Advice on business planning to the South Australian Government
on the Economic Development Authority's Telemedicine Project, 1993
Design and preparation of the Policy and Procedures Manual for
the Queensland TAFE-TEQ Department, 1993
Project planning advice to the NSW Inner Western Catholic Education
Videoconferencing Project, 1993-94
Researcher and author of the report Videoconferencing Futures.
The Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture April
1994
Paper presented at National Conference for Hospitality and Tourism
Educators, October 1993: Technology and its future interaction
with flexible learning.
Report for the University of Central Queensland, October 1993:
Becoming a Habit rather than a novelty: An evaluation of videoconferencing
at the University of Central Queensland, 1992-1993.
Paper presented at National Conference of the Australasian Telecommunications
Association, Sydney, October 25, 1993: Videoconferencing at the
Leading Edge in Australia: Issues, Dilemmas and Potential.
Report for Australian Network Productions, July 1993: Designing
and Marketing a World Competitive Open Learning Package: Enhancing
and Marketing the Australian Video Tutor Series.
Report, June 1993: Videoconferencing Futures at Charles Sturt
University.
Author of two chapters of a book and the bibliography of a book
published by the University of New England, 1993: Videoconferencing
in Education and Business. A Manual for Users and Studio Managers.
Co-author of chapter ISDN-based Videoconferencing in Australian
Tertiary Education, in international publication "ISDN
Applications in Education and Training" Mason and Bacsich (1993)
Co-author of paper Videoconferencing Networks and Applications
in Australian Higher Education, presented at IFIP Interactive
Conference on Teleteaching ‘93 in Trondheim, Norway, August
1993 and reproduced in 1993 Teleteaching
Joint paper presented to National Conference of the Australian
and South Pacific External Studies Association, Adelaide, July 1993:
Videoconferencing as a new teaching methodology.
Report for Telecom Australia: Research on Export Opportunities
for Telecom in Open Learning/Distance Education in South East Asia,
April 1993
Consultant to national TAFE Flexible Delivery Working Party project
on Cost-benefits of Flexible Delivery, 1992-93
Project Director of National Open Learning Staff Development
Project, commissioned by the TAFE National Staff Development
Committee, 1992
Project manager of SAtech Consortium, which undertook two consultancies
for the AEC Working Party on a National Education Communications
Framework, Dec 1991-March 1992, leading to the establishment of
the Open Learning Technology Corporation
Manager of National Staff Development Project on Open Learning
Materials Development, commissioned by the TAFE National Staff Development
Committee, culminating in the report: Induction for Effective
Open Learning, 1991
Manager of SA DETAFE Open Learning Staff Development Program, 1991-1992
Co-author of conference paper: Interacting at a Distance: Staff
and Student Perceptions of Teaching and Learning via Videoconferencing.
AARE/NZ 1992 Joint Conference "Educational research: Discipline
and Diversity" Deakin University, 22-26 November 1992
Keynote Speaker at the ASET Conference in Adelaide, October 3 1992,
on "Leading Edge/Bleeding Edge in Educational Technology"
Keynote Speaker at the ITTE Conference in Brisbane, October 2 1992,
on "Successfully Managing the Change to Open Learning."
Presentation to 52 Victorian TAFE Principals, via video-conferencing
from Adelaide to Melbourne, November 1991
Author of 85 page publication: "An Introduction to Open Learning"
for the SA DETAFE, 1991
Manager of SA DETAFE Video-conferencing Network, TAFE Channel,
1987-1992
Organising committee member and presenter for "Partnerships
in Training" Conference, Melbourne, March 1991
Presentation to Conference " Technology in Government Education"
, Melbourne, August 1991
Presentation to Conference of the Australian Teleconferencing Consortium,
Adelaide, August 1991
Convenor of Reference Group, National Project on Open Learning
Materials Development, Adelaide, September 1991
Article on Video-conferencing, in ASPESA Papers, 1991
Presentation on the Videoconferencing Project to the Teleconferencing
Means Business 11/ ASPESA National Conference, Bond University,
Sept. 1990. Linked by live video-conferencing from Bond to Adelaide.
Evaluator of Dr Dorothy Toussaint's "Fleximode in WA TAFE"
commissioned by the TAFE National Centre for Research and Development,
1989.
Presentation to the Australian Society for Educational Technology,
on Educational Video-conferencing, May 1990.
Convenor of and presenter at 5 National Seminars on Video-conferencing,
Adelaide, March-May 1990.
Presentation to the National Residential Conference on the Certificate
in Rural Office Practice, on "Open Learning in TAFE: The Future?"
December, 1989.
Presentation to the Research in Distance Education National Conference,
Deakin University, November, 1989.
"Evaluating Distance and Open Learning": Book Review
in Distance Education International Journal, vol. 10, 1989.
"Human Agency and Educational Technology Innovations":
Address to HERDSA National Conference, Adelaide, July 1989.
Editor of "Report on Establishing Open Learning at Light College"
including article "Managing the Change to Open Learning",
September, 1988. Circulated nationally.
Founder and Editor of the SA DETAFE "Open Learning Newsletter",
1989. Annual national and overseas circulation: 2,500
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