Ian Reid (educator)

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Associate Professor Ian Reid is Associate Director of the Flexible Learning Centre (Online Education) at the University of South Australia. He is responsible for development of the online teaching and learning environment across the University, UniSAnet (http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au ). Ian’s background is in education at the secondary and tertiary level and has worked in web based education since 1997.

He chairs the Education and Training track of the annual AUSWEB http://ausweb.scu.edu.au conference, and is a member of the executive of the National Organisation for E-Learning. Ian is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on E-Learning and the Journal of Information Technology Education, and referees papers for the annual ASCILITE conference. His research interests include institutional strategy for online education and its relationship with quality assurance, and he has published widely in these areas.

Ian Reid's home page at http://people.unisa.edu.au/Ian.Reid

Some of his recent publications are:

Reid, Ian C. (2007) 'Educationally useful learning objects' in G. Minshull and J Mole (eds) Designing for Learning: The proceedings of Theme 1 of the JISC Online Conference: Innovating e-Learning 2006 Bristol: JISC ISBN 0-9551424-8-2 pp.34-41

Reid, Ian C. (2007) 'Embedding instructional design with learning objects ' in Learning Objects and Instructional Design Informing Science Press ISBN 83-922337-7-8 pp.39-58.

Mathur, M. & Reid, I.C. (2005) 'The use of virtual classroom software for flexible learning' Paper presented at The Eleventh Australasian World Wide Web Conference [1], held in the Gold Coast, Qld, Australia, July.

Reid, Ian C. (2005) 'Quality Assurance, Open and Distance Learning, and Australian Universities' International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning [2] 6 (1)