About the Plenary Participants

Clint Smith is Field Manager at TAFE frontiers. He is adult educator, researcher
and instructional designer and has a strong interest in virtual communities
for learning.

Michael Chalk is Online Learning & Professional Development Coordinator at Preston Reservoir
Adult Community Education (PRACE) and is an ANTA Flexible Learning Leader in 2003. He has been widely investigating the phenomenon and communities of the open source world, and implementing web design solutions for online learning.

Josie Rose is the ICT project officer for ACFE Southern Western Port Regional Council. Her work in the region has amongst others led to the establishment of an online hub for teachers, administrators and managers within the SWP ACE community. She also manages SWP Learning Communities flexible learning network project. She has a background in ESL and has been actively involved in the online / flexible delivery field in ACE for the past 8 years. Josie is also a member of the research and learning innovation team at AMES. She is currently facilitating a LearnScope project and also co-ordinating an applied research project for the ANTA Flexible learning Advisory Group examining teacher readiness in the uptake of online socio collaborative techniques in ESL teaching. Josie is a 2000 ANTA flexible learning leader.

Marg Aspin was the head of online learning at NMIT, then worked for a short time with ANTA and now runs her own business in education and training, currently developing a strategic workforce development plan for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Vic Branch), and working on the Office of Training and Tertiary Education guidelines for VET staff who deal with small business project in conjunction with Chisholm Institute of TAFE. Margaret also runs workshops on virtual teams and working online. http://aoc.alphalink.com.au

Dale Pobega currently teaches ESL and Computing at Duke Street Community House and runs his own online training and educational consultancy "Daws and Pobega E-Literacy Solutions". Dale has spent many years working in the ACE field as a teacher, trainer and ardent promoter of flexible delivery. He has co managed the ACENET Flexible Learning Network for the last five years and established the 'Online.Ace Teaching Program', in 1999, an online course which he continues to deliver and develop in conjunction with his colleague, Michael Gwyther.

Michael Gwyther currently joint manages private RTO Yum Productions Pty Ltd with Erin McCuskey. YUM are currently working in flexible teaching and learning strategies with trainers, course development, multimedia resources for industry and literacy students, WELL projects and a variety of video training & production. He is also the part time manager of community based ISP YarraNet and has worked in ACE, particularly neighbourhood houses for over 15 years. He has managed the E Learning Communities Flexible Learning Network and has worked closely with Dale Pobega for the past 4 years on a variety of flexible learning projects.