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This page lists my more recent publications and presentations in the area of training, simulation, online learning and ICT literacy. My core academic expertise in cognitive neuroscience (1984 – 1997) is documented in my academic CV, which is available on request and summarised on my staff profile page at Swinburne. A number of my publications are available electronically from the Swinburne Research Bank.

2009

Wise, L. (2009) Cognitive load during training facilitates the development of expert skilled performance in a complex spatiotemporal domain. | Abstract | Poster slides

Poster focussing on the development of spatiotemporal awareness and training for expertise presented at the International Multisensory Research Forum at City College in New York

2008

Snyder, I., Wise, L., North, S. & Bulfin, S. (2008) Being Digital in School, Home and Community, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. PDF – 1.2 MB

Report on a survey of Year 10 students in Australia about their ownership and use of digital technologies in three different settings.

Cognitive demand and training requirements for future Air Combat Group aircrew

A series of DSTO Client Reports (not available for public release).

2007

Simulations in aviation and medicine

Second seminar in the MUVES seminar series run by the Melbourne University Virtual Environments for Simulation research group

2006

At the limits of social constructivism: moving beyond LMS to reintegrate scholarship

PDF version of paper presented at the 2006 Ascilite conference in Sydney

Adventures in Blogland

Article in The Age on academics who blog, and a link to my post regarding this

LMS Governance Report

Report from an 8 month research project with my colleague James Quealy funded by the Melbourne Monash Collaboration in Educational Technologies

2005

Challenges for supporting online professional development courses in health sciences

Paper with Chris Pearce presented at the Health Informatics Conference in Melbourne in 2005

Peer learning, Lectures and Online learning – Putting it all together

Paper with Justin Tse presented at the GP Education and Training conference (GPET) in Sydney in 2005 and published in Australian Family Physician, 34(12): 27-34

Blogs versus discussion forums in postgraduate online continuing medical education

Paper for the Blogtalk Downunder Conference which I didn’t actually attend for a whole set of reasons …

LMS Perils and Possibilities

Invited presentation at the METTLE conference at the University of Melbourne in 2005

2004

IT Literacy issues in Tertiary Education

Poster presentation at AusWeb and paper with Chris Pearce at the ICCE conference in 2004 on Information Literacy for non-IT professionals

Information Architecture and Educational Design

Presentation at the BMU Research Seminar Series in 2004

pre-2004

The Evolution and Devolution of the Webmasters Role – Powerpoint, 143 kB

Presentation in the Monash Web Seminar Series on the changing role of webmasters and website

Project-managing Small Web Projects – Powerpoint, 126 kB

Presentation in the Monash Web Seminar Series on the practicalities and politics of managing web projects in a large university or corporation

Designing Web Surveys – Powerpoint, 77 kB

Presentation in the Monash Web Seminar Series on how to develop web surveys

Web Metrics – Powerpoint, 47 kB

Presentation in the Monash Web Seminar Series on how to various ways of measuring and interpreting the success of your website

Scalability Issues for a campus-wide implementation of
WebCT -pdf 113kB

Presentation at Asia Pacific WebCT conference, April 2002

Integrating WWW into an on-campus laboratory-based teaching program – offsite link

Presentation at AusWeb, April 1996 – it seemed like a small contribution at the time, but what we were doing then makes it a bit clearer why I find LMSes so unsatisfactory

Techno-teaching and the Web

Presentation at IT support group conference at Monash in the early 1990s