Ken Eustace Profile 2005

Contact Information Qualifications Professional/Personal Notes Recent Publications Recent Editorship Recent Keynote Research and Consultancy Teaching Porfolio Community Service Resume SIS Staff  page

Contact Information

Qualifications

BSc ANU, GradDipEd (UTS Kuring-gai)., GradDipAppSc(Computing) CSturt, MA (Paideia)*, MACCE, MAAE

* accredited in the Netherlands, Switzerland and is the first degree awarded in Australia with a registered virtual university, 1995. The 1st Australian academic to be awarded an online degree (MA) from Paideia "Virtual University" The Australian (6 Sept, 1995). The curriculum coursework and thesis portfolio is publicly available at http://www.csu.edu.au/research/sda/Reports/paideiat.html

Professional/Personal Notes

Ken Eustace has a background in science and computer science education and teaches a range of information systems and technology subjects in the School of Information Studies and is the Internet technology program leader of the Farrer Centre and program director of the ISPG. The Farrer Centre IT research program includes Web interfaces to agricultural research information; extension technology; collaborative electronic environments and online communities as expressed through learning communities MOO Project , AussieMOO and the Silo Project (the Online Farm Community at http://silo.csu.edu.au/)  at Charles Sturt University. Mr Eustace has teaching and research experience in the use of polysynchronous ICT communications in e-learning and continuing professional development, electronic publishing, intranet development, project management, HCI and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). His PhD thesis title is "Building Effective Learning Communities Online: An Ethnographic Study".

His other research interests cover technology transfer for improved productivity in agriculture, business, education. His current interests include:

• e-commerce and the technology for secure transactions for SME's in regional communities;
• online communities, intranet development and knowledge management;
• automated electronic publishing systems (SGML, XML, HTML Transit) for agricultural research information;
• development of e-learning technologies frameworks in university teaching practice;
• distributed client/server systems with ZOPE, Java, Python and MOO;
• human-computer interaction HCI and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW);
• qualitative research methodologies for HCI, CSCW and e-learning technologies research.

Recent Publications

1. Lee, M.J.W., Eustace, K., Fellows, G., Bytheway, A. & Irving, L. 2005. Rochester Castle MMORPG: Instructional gaming and collaborative learning at a Western Australian school. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 21(4), 446-469. .
2. Lee, M.J.W., Eustace, K., Fellows, G., Bytheway, A. & Irving, L. 2005, Using massively-multiplayer online role-playing games to enhance collaborative learning and teaching in the Australian high school classroom. Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2005 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 2039-2046). Montréal, Canada, June 27-July 2.
3. Eustace,K., Fellows, G., Bytheway, A., Lee, M and Irving, L. 2004. The application of massively multiplayer online role playing games to collaborative learning and teaching practice in schools. Proceedings of the 21st ASCILITE Conference. Perth WA. December 5-8, 2004.
4. Eustace, K., Henri, J. and Meloche, J. 2004, Developments in Tele-learning professional practice in higher education: less teaching, more learning. Electronic Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (E-JIST), 7 (1). ISSN 1324-0781
5. Eustace, K., 2004, The Learning Journey as Interpretive Research Into Teaching Practice. Proceedings of the Qualitative Research as Interpretive Practice Conference, Albury September 20-21, 2003. Centre for Research into Professional Practice, Learning and Education, RIPPLE, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, pp136-144. ISBN 1 86467 155 6
6. Eustace, K., 2004, Turning the tide - e-learning as agent for change!, Proceedings of ASLA NSW 2004 Conference, Sydney, October 22-23, 2004 [Online] Available at http://ispg.csu.edu.au/members/keustace/conferences/aslansw/paper
7. Eustace, K., 2003, Educational value of e-learning in conventional and complementary computing education, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, Palmerston North, New Zealand. 6 July 2003. [Online]. Available at http://www.naccq.ac.nz/conference04/proceedings_03/pdf/53.pdf
8. Eustace, K., 2003, Making Research Work for You: Responsibilities and Pitfalls, Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology. Vol 1, Issue 1 (November 2003). [Online]. Available at http://www.naccq.ac.nz/bacit/0101/0101eustace.html
9. Eustace, K., 2001, Experimentation in telelearning environments: creating a sense of community for CPERT. Proceedings of the Continuing Professional Education Round Table Fourth World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for the Library and Information Professions. Vermont, USA. August 15-17, 2001.
10. Eustace, K., Henri, J. and Meloche, J. 2001, Lifelong professional education: a collaborative perspective. Proceedings of the Continuing Professional Education Round Table Fourth World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for the Library and Information Professions. Vermont, USA. August 15-17, 2001. [Presentation version]
11. Henri, J., Messing, J. and Eustace, K. 2001, Information Literacy and telelearning: a case study of teachers use of an electronic tool. Proceedings of HCI International 2001, 5-10 August, 2001, Vol. 2 pp 725 - 729. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Manwah New Jersey. 5-10 August 2001.
12. Eustace, K. 2001, Object-oriented conferencing and database publishing as innovative telelearning environments . In Book of Abstracts, WCCE2001: 7th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education. eds. UNI-C, Copenhagen, Denmark: pp. 235. 29. July - 3 August 2001. Refereed Conference panel session:
13. Eustace, K., Henri, J., Meloche, J., Henri, F., Munro, R. & Weber, W. 2001, Experimentation in telelearning environments: 3 case studies. In D. Watson & J. Anderson (Eds.), Networking the Learner: Computers in Education: Proceedings of the Seventh IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education (pp. 963-966). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer.
14. Eustace, K. & Hay, L. 2000, A community and knowledge building model in computer education. In A.E. Ellis (Ed.), Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Computing Education (pp. 95-102). New York: ACM Press.
15. Hay, L. and Eustace, K. 2000, Groupware as a knowledge management tool: Possibilities for schools.  Proceedings of Information Services in Schools: ISIS2000 Online Conference, Centre for Studies in Teacher Librarianship, Charles Sturt University, 21 - 31 July, 2000. [Online] Available at http://www.csu.edu.au/cstl/isis/
16. Eustace, K. (1999). User-Centred Design Standards For Agricultural Research Information. Proceedings of OZCHI99: Interfaces for the global community. Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, 28 - 30 November, 1999.
17. Eustace, K. (1999). Management techniques and software quality for small-scale Web project developers. Proceedings of WebNet99. AACE World Conference on the WWW and Internet. Honolulu, Hawaii, 24-30 October, 1999.
18. Eustace, K. (1999). Collaborative electronic environments (CEE) for agricultural extension and professional workgroups. Seminar paper presented via Texas A&M University video conference network from the Texas Woman's University, Denton TX, 21 October, 1999.
19. Eustace, K and Henri, J. (1999). Using Collaborative electronic environments (CEE) for professional workgroups. Farrer Centre and CSTL Joint Venture. ISPG Research [Online]. Available at http://www.csu.edu.au/research/ispg/papers/ceeprof.rtf
20. Eustace, K. and Langford, L. (1999). Reflection upon development of online teaching practices. Access, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp 32  - 33. August, 1999.
21. Eustace, K. (1999). Collaborative electronic environments. Proceedings of Information Services in Schools: ISIS'99 Online Conference, Centre for Studies in Teacher Librarianship, Charles Sturt University, 19 - 29 July, 1999. [Online] Available at http://www.csu.edu.au/research/cstl/isis/
22. Eustace, K. (1999). Passing the baton: Effective management of an electronic learning community. Proceedings of the NSW CEG Annual Conference 1999, Penrith, NSW. ( July 1999).
23. Eustace, K. (1999). Do we need online teaching? Teaching and evaluating online tutorials in realtime. CELT Forum 99 paper and workshop. [Online]. Available at http://www.csu.edu.au/division/oli/celtforum99/eustace1.htm Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 8 -9 February, 1999.
24. Eustace, K. (1998). Ethnographic study of a virtual learning community. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy. Vol. 8 Number 1, pp 83-84, 1998.
25. Rochester, M.K. and Eustace, K. (1997). A distance independent/open learning education model for Continuing Professional Education of Librarians. Human Development: Competencies for the Twenty-first Century, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Continuing Professional Education, The Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp 1-9,  27-29 August, 1997.
26. Eustace, K., Johnson, R. and Fellows, G. (1997). SILO Project - Building the Internet for the Farm Community. Proceedings of the Towards 2000 Conference, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 2-4 July, 1997.
27. Eustace, K. (1996). Paideia: the Virtual University?. A Case Study in the Proceedings of The Virtual University? Symposium, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 21-22 November, 1996. [Case studies list]
28. Murray, P., Samuelson, P. and Eustace, K. (1996). SILO - The Internet for the Riverina Farmer. Proceedings of the 25th Riverina Outlook Conference, Farrer Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 15 August, 1996.
29. Eustace, K. (1996). Building the Virtual Community at Paideia. Proceedings of the Inaugural Australian National Symposium on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 30 August, 1996.
30. Eustace, K. (1996).  MOOving around the net : Real to Virtual and back again. Proceedings of the Schooling and the Information Highway - ITEC Virtual Conference, 8-15 June, 1996.
31. Eustace, K. (1996).  Rural Access to the Internet. Proceedings of the Schooling and the Information Highway - ITEC Virtual Conference, 8-15 June, 1996.
32. Eustace, K. (1996).  On the global grapevine: Real to Virtual and back again, CRCV Project 4.1.1, Cooperative Links in Tertiary Education, [Using Communication technologies in support of the teaching of viticulture], Cooperative Research Centre for Viticulture at Wagga Wagga, April 23, 1996.
33. Eustace, K. (1996).  Study and Composition in Cyberspace at AussieMOO, Proceedings of The Virtual Classroom: Writing Across the Internet Conference, University of California at Berkeley, March 16, 1996.
34. Eustace, K. (1996). Going my way: Beyond the WEB and the MOO in the library. Australian Library Review. Vol. 13 Number 1, pp 44-53, February, 1996.
35. Eustace, K. (1995).  Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners. In Considering University Teaching 1, pp 10-11, Meyenn, B., Parker, J. and Pennay, B. (eds) Charles Sturt University, November, 1995.
36. Altas, I. and Eustace, K.(1995).  A Balancing Act for Distance Education: Mathematics, Proceedings of Asia-Pacific World Wide Web Conference, Sydney, Australia, September 18-21, 1995.
37. Eustace, K. (1995). Redefining the Walls of the Classroom. Proceedings of Expanding the Horizons Conference, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, August 23-25, 1995.
38. Eustace, K. and McAfee, M. (1995).  Beyond the WEB and the MOO in Education, Proceeding of ACEC'95 Conference, Perth, Australia, July 9-13, 1995.
39. Fellows, G and Eustace, K.. (1994). Developing Australia's First Educational Multiuser Conferencing and Dialogue Space at AussieMOO.[Online]. Available WWW at http://farrer.csu.edu.au/aussiemoo.html, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia, 21 September, 1994.
40. Eustace, K. (1994).  Interactive Education: Distributed hypermedia and the networking of students on the World-Wide-Web.COM3: Journal of the Computing in Education Group of Victoria, Vol. 21, Numbers 1/2, pp 4-8, June 1994.
41. Eustace, K.(1994).  Integrating the Internet into the Classroom. Proceedings of ITEC Conference: The Information Highway and Australian Schools, Sydney, Australia, July 4-5, 1994.
42. Eustace, K., Fellows, G. and Tsang, P. (1994). Mosaic/WWW experiences with library science students in a Macintosh computer laboratory environment., 1st International World-Wide-Web Conference - WWW '94, Geneva, Switzerland, May 25-27, 1994.
43. Eustace, K., Tsang, P. and Fellows, G. (1994). Internet Signatures Project (ISP): Rural schools riding the information superhighway. SIS Occasional Paper 3, Charles Sturt University, May 1994.
44. Tsang, P., Eustace, K., Fellows, G., Poon, S. and Rochester, M., (1993). Internet: Applications, Training and Opportunities: An academic staff perspective. Proceedings of ASCILITE 93 Conference, U.N.E..(Northern Rivers) Lismore, Dec 6-8, 1993.
45. Poon, S., Eustace K. and Fellows, G. (1993). A Shift in Teaching Paradigm in Distance Education, AARNet Conference, Networkshop 93, University of Melbourne, Nov 30-Dec 2, 1993.
46. Tsang, P. and Eustace K. (1993). Using one's electronic signature for advertisement, Internet Business Journal, Vol 3&4, Oct 1993. pp24-25.
47. Eustace K. (1989). Educational Applications for Electronic Mail, Volumes 1-3, ISBN: 0730561054, NSW Department of Education, Riverina Region, 1989.

Recent Editorship

Australian Library Review Vol. 13, No. 1, February, 1996. Special Issue on World-Wide Web: Realising the Potential.
(with Dr Maxine Rochester) Australian Library Review Vol. 13, No. 1, February, 1996. Special Issue on World-Wide Web: Realising the Potential.

Recent Keynote Address/Invited speaker

Eustace, K., 2004, Turning the tide - e-learning as agent for change!, Proceedings of ASLA NSW 2004 Conference, Sydney, October 22-23, 2004 [Online] Available at http://ispg.csu.edu.au/members/keustace/conferences/aslansw/paper

Eustace, K., 2003, Making Research Work for You: Responsibilities and Pitfalls, Proceedings of the NACCQ 2003 Post-Graduate Symposium. Palmerston North, New Zealand. 6 July 2003, pp16-33.

Postgraduate supervision

Student doing the following thesis topics.

PhD

"Educational MOOs as supportive online learning environments for literature discussions: an investigation of upper primary students participating in MOO-based literature circles" Jennie Bales,2003+

Masters

"Podcasting an oral presentation for assessment" Mark Lee, 2005

"Towards an IT project portfolio management integrated framework" Andrew Mann, 2005

"Designing electronic publishing resources for regional communities" Roger Johnson, 2003+

"Building an interactive multimedia website for a distributed workgroup" Jong Pil Park , 2000

"A study in the feasilbility of employer sponsored information technology vocational education and training via the Internet for Information Technology Specialists" Kelvin Wilson, 1999.

"Teacher reactions to the introduction of the Interent in rural secondary colleges." Malcom Baker, 2000

"K2 MOO: a polysynchronous environment for workgroups using mountain climbing metaphor" Khalid Hamid Chohan, 2001.

Honours

"The application of a clustering algorithm for detecting computer intrusions." Andrew Hanson, 2004.

"The impact the expectations of stakeholders have on the development of a private school's ICT infrastructure" Allan Bytheway 2003.

"Dynamic billing within a federated distributed information system" Tim Austin CSIRO Scholarship co-supervision. 2002.

Research and Consultancy

• Founding member - Internet Special Projects Group (ISPG).
• Member of Research Into Professional Practice, Learning and Education (RIPPLE) at CSU
• Member of Farrer Centre (Agricultural and Environmental Research)
• Land, water and society: "Waterscapes" initiative, member of Theme F: Nature and use of knowledge and information.
• Member of the Centre for Information Studies at CSU
• Member of ReCITE (Innovation in Telelearning Environments)
• SILO project was a prototpye Web portal for encouraging farmers to use the Internet. Local, national and international interest was sparked and the project has now sporned many initiatives in e-commerce and e-publishing in agriculture.
• Research associate member of Centre for Rural Social Research (rural social issues, rural change, rural community development)
• Research associate member of CRC for Sustainable Rice Production, Sub-Program 5.2 Education and Technology Transfer

Industry experience with information systems

• Expanding Horizons Consultant (Education), Information systems division, Toshiba (Aust.): Internet use in schools
• SCEGGS Redlands - Jindabyne campus telecommunications planning 1997 (Principal: Peter Cornish)
• Austbrokers Ltd Web site and Intranet Development 1996-1999. (Project manager);
• WorldWide WebNet Publishers Pty Ltd: CGI programming in perl training; Web site design consultant.
• NSW TAFE Plus Word Processing course development (1994);
• NSW TAFE Staff training course: Web publishing (1997);NSW DET/ Centre for Continuing Professional Development (CSU): Internet training for teachers.

Teaching Portfolio (brief)

• DigiPort (http://ispg.csu.edu.au/members/keustace/teaching/portfolio) is an interactive digital teaching & learning portfolio project, where a digital record of "learning moments" is done by students, tutors and lecturers using digital recording to help us see there "learning moments" in action.
• Distance education to globally adjacent education paradigm shifts;
• ICT and e-learning framework development to support teaching practice (UNIX servers, MOO and ZOPE)
• Social Constructivist theories of "co-learning"- Vyogotsky, Maslow and Bloom at the base of the teaching philosophy;
• Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL and problem-based and project-based learning strategies;
• Deploying a diversity of teaching methods and assessment strategies;
• Developing my own interactive learning portals (see sample links in list below) to complement main online resources;
• Use my own subject evaluation forms (based on the harvard 1-minute survey method) in seeking teaching excellence;

  Sample Subject Evaluation Form
  Please answer each question in this survey. In your answer, please consider content/topics presented and the technologies and teaching strategies used. Results will be collated and sent via e-mail to Ken. You will receive confirmation of the submission via a Web page and you will receive a CC copy of the form.
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  Class member: please enter your e-mail address:

  1. List what you consider to be the 3 strengths of ITCxxx:
  2. List what you consider to be the 3 weaknesses of ITCxxx:
  3. List what aspects of ITCxxx that you found to be most difficult.
  4. List what improvements could be made to ITCxxx:
  5. Further comments to add?
     
     Thank you
     Please submit before or at the completion of the examination period.

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• Undergraduate and postgraduate subjects taught over 12 years:
  • Computer Science,
  • Information Technology,
  • Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW),
  • Online communities
  • Client server applications,
  • Intranet design & development
  • E-systems infrastructure development
  • E-business applications development (ITmaster)
  • Telecommunications design & management;
  • Project management subjects:
    • Software Project Management & Quality Assurance;
    • Information Technology Project Management
    • Systems Development Project Management (ITmasters)

Community Service

• Weekly column with colleague, Geoff Fellows, in the local newspaper, on Questions & Answers related to reader problems in understanding and using information technology. Over 80 Q&A articles have been published since late 2001.
• NSW Dept. of Education (Riverina) Bicentennial Committee. Planning Coordinator, Bicentennial Musical Production: "The Choice". (1988).
• International Youth Year Coordinator, Riverina Region,NSW Department of Education. (1985)
  

Responsibilities

Special Administrative responsibilities

• Afiliate partners: Program manager, (Study Group)
• Director of Internet Special Projects Group.
• Joint research associate (with Mr Tony Dunn, Dr Alan Tunstall CSU; Dr Liz Humphreys and Elaine Murray CSIRO; Mr John Lacy NSW Agriculture), CRC for Sustainable Rice Production, Sub-Program 5.2 Education and Technology Transfer.

Committee membership

• Executive Committee member, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL), IFLA Division of Education and Research
• OZCHI'99 Conference Committee (November 27-30, 1999)
• Farrer Centre Research Program Leaders Committee
• WWW site planning and development committtee member, CRC for Sustainable Rice Production.
• Rural-Link Development Centre
• SIS School Board, 1996 - 97, 1999 - 2003
• Course Development Committee, Information Technology strand - B.Ed(TAS)
• 2nd Wagga Wagga World-Wide Web Conference (July 20-21, 1996) Committee