Our MOOC team provided support to the Academic team and Deb Jones (our Learning Environments Manager) to make this award happen by creating the five courses that make up the Financial Specialization MOOCs.

These course first ran in 2015, and achieved over 100,000 enrolments in just over six months.

2014

2013

Looking into MOOCs

Looking into MOOCs

Spoke in a webinar titled: MOOCs – What have we learnt?

A recordeing is available to view via the link provided.

Two presentations:

Disruptive technologies changing the face of tertiary education

What does the next-generation digital classroom look like?

Part of the closing panel discussing Planning next-generation schools for the digital generation

Presentations are available to view at:

http://www.slideshare.net/kiwirip/disruptive-innovations-in-education

http://www.slideshare.net/kiwirip/what-do-the-next-generation-classrooms-look-like

A session for Liquid Learning at their 'Accelerated Learning and Workforce Development Conference' in Perth on Mobile Learning.

2012

Steve Moneghetti Training Camp, Dwellingup

On Saturday 25th February I presented a session titled "The philosophy of running".

PDF file of the set of slides used in "The philosophy of running" presentation.

2011

Challenger Institute of Technology

October 13th 2011 - talked about iPads in Tertiary education

PDF file of my slides

Leveraging a Liquid Landscape

Utilising Web 2.0 as a Platform to Enable Blended Learning Strategies

26th January - Did a presentation for MIT's Faculty of Education and Social Sciences on learning in 2010

September 18th, I presented two workshops with this title. One to community and non-profit groups and the other was local government groups. The workshops were presented in partnership between AUT, Auckland City Council, the Dept of Internal Affairs and the Auckland District Council of Social Services (ADCOSS).

2009 Conference presentations by Peter Mellow, CEPD, AUT.

1- Presented a session titled “The Enduring Power of Great Teaching” at the Tertiary Education Summit in Wellington, 28th & 29th April. Brightstar Conference.

2-Presented at the Allied Staff Conference at AUT on Web 2.0 – what is it and where are you? September 9th.

3- Presented three podcasting workshops at Waiariki Institute of Technology Staff Development Conference for Mandy Williams. 25th September. (1 day)

4- Gave the opening presentation at the Teaching and Learning Conference /eFest conference, 29th September (1 day).

5- Presented a workshop at the Ako Aotearoa Academy Symposium on Web 2.0 and learning & teaching in NZ. Wednesday 28th October to Friday 30th October.

6- Tuesday 8th December - Did my “invited speaker” session to all delegates at the 2009 ASCILITE conference, held at Auckland University.

7- Wednesday 9th December - graduated with a Master of Educational Leadership from AUT

After School is new project that I have been developing after seeing Dave Eggers 2008 TED Prize wish and his story of 826 Valencia.

Starting in the suburb of Albany and currently working with some of the schools in the area we plan to set up free after school session for students to get assistance with their writing and school work. Other activites are also planned.

If you would like to contribute or help out, please visit the web site for more information.

On Monday 19th November at a ceremony held at AUT, I was awarded an Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) award. Graham Prentice, National Education Manager (Tertiary) for the Apple Division of Renaissance NZ Ltd. presented the award on behalf of Apple Australia.

The Conference on Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications (MoLTA) was the first education conference in New Zealand to focus only on mobile learning.

The conference had some great papers showing how there are small groups at many NZ tertiary institutions who are using simple mobile learning tools to add another dimension to our students learning. Excellence is everywhere!

In reality, I did not do much to assist this event and Dave Parsons and the Massey team did all the work, however they very kindly gave me a little of the glory! Thanks guys! :-)

This informal paper was prepared for the Apple Higher Education Leadership Summit held July 12th-14th 2006 in Saratoga, CA, United States of America. My paper was one of only three that was selected to explore the integration of multimedia elements in an academic 'paper' online environment.

We spent three days "Envisioning A New Kind of Online Journal for Intellectual and Creative Exchange" that will use the emerging multi-media formats that don't translate into traditional paper educational journals.

I was the only New Zealander invited, and one of only three educators from outside the USA.

After presenting at the 2004 and 2005 eFest on mobile learning and low cost flexible delivery alternatives (both presentations available from the previous eFest web sites), in 2006 I was asked to do an invited speaker slot as well as run a workshop and be a panel member (technology stream).

The eFest Team wrote: "Peter is a recognised leader in Mobile Learning in New Zealand." At the start of my presentation I mentioned that there are many leaders in this field in NZ, including Thom Cochrane (UNITEC), Steve Lowe (SPF Multimedia) and Dr. David Parsons (Massey University - Albany).

StudyTXT was a finalist in two categories at the 2006 Computerworld excellence awards.

• Excellence in the Use of IT in Education: Tertiary & Commercial (won by the Airways Corporation).
  
• Judges' Choice for Best Value (won by Point England School for their podcast programme).

The iPod Gym project came out of 100 short video clips we filmed and distributed to students on an interactive CD-ROM creating a compendium of exercises for gym instructors. These clips had screen text but no audio.

This movie clips were then converted into Flash files to reduce the file size so they could be used within AUT Online for students to view.

When video capable portable media players arrived, the transition to this format was a natural extension, giving another option to students.

These clips were then made available to the public, due to the increase in popularity of these devices. This became a case of create a learning asset once, reuse it many times.

Recently a voice over has been added to the movie clips with technical and safety comments being made. The next step in our plan is to reengineer them to 3GP format, so they will play on video capable cellphones. So a person could be working out in a gym, wants to try a new exercise, and could download it to their phone to see the correct technique. Just in time knowledge!

StudyTXT is a project that I created. I set up the StudyTXT project within AUT from inception. StudyTXT is a nation wide delivered SMS study aid, distributed through mobile phones.

At the moment seven tertiary institutions and two secondary schools are using this mLearning product. It is still developing market growth and we have even had interest within Australia so an export market has been considered.

I was named, along with 14 other talented NZ educators as one of the flexible learning leaders in New Zealand, a Tertiary Education Commission supported project.

I used the funds and time made available to me to explore mLearning options around the world as well as other educational areas including online pedagogy, instructional design and interactive learning spaces.

This web site is a small part of a CD that I developed with Sheryl Ferguson, Pouako/Lecturer, Te Iti Rearea, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi. When we created it was for "the development of Te Reo skills in pre-school children."

We did it as a team project for an assessment, while we were studying together at Waikato University for the Postgraduate Certificate in eEducation qualification. We had a paper titled "Whakahihiko te Hinengaro: Lessons from a preschool Te Reo e-learning resource." which was published in the July 2004 issue of Computers in NZ Schools journal.

I have fostered links with secondary schools for many years starting with the Sportlink project in 2004. We used AUT's learning management system to create an organisation that physical education students from Trident high school could log into and take part in directed discussion forums. They could ask and answer questions from elite sports guests, who changed every week over the term of the project.

Three weeks before the start of the Sydney Olympics, I co-led a New Zealand team with Patria Hume from Auckland University as part of an International team that did anthropometry measurements on rowers and kayakers and their equipment. This project was led by Deb Kerr from Curtin and Tim Ackland from the University of Western Australia.

While we were based in Penrith we also drove up to Yamber to measure the American rowing team.

Here are 11 photos from the project....more to come!