ultiBASE In-Site, May 1997

ISSN 1328-1798

In May we present the following new materials:

ultiBASE Research Officer Diane Baird has produced another thoughtful interview entitled Humanism, teaching and technology: A dialogue with Carol MacKnight and Carmel McNaught. Interviewed during the ASCILITE conference in December last year, they agreed 'to make conversation available in the hope that it stimulates thought'. They discuss the use of technology in teaching, possible future directions, current standards and ideas of excellence from both Australian and US perspectives.

Jason Lowder of Monash University has contributed Creation of WWW documents for students. His guidelines are based on experience and cover issues of navigation, content, network problems, use and feedback. Winner, with Dianne Hagan, of the 1996 ASCILITE award for the best WWW project, his article complements Dianne Hagan's Student feedback via the World Wide Web which we presented in March.

Howard Aldrich, Kenan Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, has been interviewed for an article entitled A teaching champion: An interview with Howard Aldrich. Professor Aldrich has also contributed the first ever Recommended Viewing to our Resources section. This new section presents a selection of recent and classic resources within discipline areas, chosen by practitioners in those fields. The choices this month may surprise...

The publication of a new book entitled Researchers hooked on teaching: Noted scholars discuss the synergies of teaching and research, to which Howard Aldrich is a contributor, provided the impetus for our trans-Pacific information exchanges. The book is perceptively reviewed this month by Anne Gartner of RMIT.

Our Workshop section has been re-structured this month with a new icon, title page and Workshop entitled 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning from the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE)

Richard Elliott, Head of Learning Technologies, UNITEC Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand, has contributed a fascinating array of Website recommendations for his contribution to Choice Clicks this month. This area of ultiBASE is proving very popular.

The Resources section has been updated in many areas:

• Benno Engels of RMIT has contributed a review of a CD-ROM entitled Environmental context: A course on the Socio-Political context of environmental issues.
• Many New Books related broadly to teaching and learning have been listed for May.
• The list of Electronic Journals, with direct links to their WWW sites, has increased substantially.
• The contents pages of three teaching and learning journals have been added for the first time. They are: Curriculum and Teaching, Education and Society and Education Practice and Theory.
• Our Faculty Forum has been updated and many new sites with descriptions and links have been added to Internet Teaching and Learning Sites.

We have recently published a new (paper) leaflet about ultiBASE. Please tell us if you would like copies to distribute to colleages.