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Michael Ossipoff joined Telstra in October 1999. He is currently Telstra's Director of Capability. This operating unit is tasked with taking the entire Telstra product and service portfolio and bringing it to life in the minds of their corporate clients. The role is responsible for explaining and interpreting the implications of new technology trends and developments so that their customers can best prepare themselves to take advantage of emerging opportunities.

Michael has also held positions of Director of iVelocity, a 3.5 billion dollar start up business inside Telstra. (Being in essence a specialised Sales unit ) He has also held the role of Director of Corporate Marketing, responsible for the entire marketing business plan, strategy and tactics.

Prior to Telstra, Michael was Managing Director of Sun Microsystems Software Business, joining after his Dot Com business , Net Dynamics was acquired by Sun. He also worked as Marketing and Sales Director at IBM / Lotus Software and has held international sales and marketing positions with Hewlett-Packard and NCR. Michael brings over 17 years experience in the IT sector.

Michael's perspectives and experiences come from both a major corporate and start up company basis, mixed with his sales and marketing background, as well as his insight from operating his own marketing research company.

Mr Gerald (Gerry) White, Dip. T., Adv. Dip. T.(distinction), B. Ed., M. Ed., MACS, FACE, is currently Chief Executive Officer of education.au limited which, is a company limited by guarantee and owned by the Australian education and training Ministers. The company provides leadership and innovation in technology enabled services and careers services in education and training.

Gerry has had the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of information technology and telecommunications in education and training nationally and internationally. Gerry as Chief Executive Officer of the national ICT agency in Australian education and training, provides leadership and direction in the development, enhancement, standards and use of online distributed and managed national education network services. His current work involves oversight of a number of major national projects and the formation of national and international alliances.

Gerry has been a member of the Australian ICT in Education Committee (AICTEC) and other the national groups advising on ICT in schools and vocational education and training for nine years.

Gerry has been a teacher, Mathematics Consultant, Deputy Principal, Curriculum Management Consultant, and School Principal with the South Australian Education Department, then Deputy Director of Catholic Education and National Coordinator of Information Technology and Telecommunications in Education for Catholic education across Australia.

Gerry has worked in education for nearly forty years, specialising in curriculum and technology in education. His Master's graduate thesis examined the integration of computers with curriculum in schools focusing on the impact of computers on educational use.

Gerry founded the Computer Education Group of South Australia in 1984 and was Chairperson for five years. He was also a member of the Australian Council for Computers in Education for many years. In 1987, Gerry became Chairperson of the Australian Computers in Education Conference. Gerry was President of the SA Chapter of the Australian College of Education (ACE) and was admitted as a Fellow of the ACE in 1991. His Fellowship was awarded as recognition for his outstanding work in the field of technology in education. Gerry served for several years on the National Council of ACE as a technology in education adviser. Currently, Gerry is a Director of the Internet Society of Australia, works with the South Australian Chapter of Australian Telecommunications Users Group and is a member of the Australian Computer Society.

Gerry is a regular keynote speaker and panelist at numerous national and international conferences. Some recent international presentations of note include keynote addresses in Barcelona for the International Online Educa Conference (May 2003), at the Eminent III conference in Stockholm (November 2003, ) and Eminent VI in Paris (December, 2005), CeBIT (May 2004), Asia Pacific Forum Science Meeting in India 2004, Online Educa Conference in Berlin (2003, 2004, 2005) as well as at the annual COSN conference in Washington (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005), the South-East Asian Summit in Bangkok (2005), KERIS, Suth Korea (2005) and the Asia-Pacific Forum (2005).

Gerry is also the Chair of the international Global Exchange of Networks in Education (GENIE) which meets twice yearly.

Laurence Zwimpfer, BE(Hons), MPP(VUW), SM(MIT), MIPENZ, HFNZCS, runs a private company in Wellington New Zealand specialising in the use of information and communication technologies in education. Since 1997 he has provided consulting and project management services to the Ministry of Education and other government and private sector organisations. Prior to that he worked in a business development role at Telecom New Zealand, where he supported education institutions and businesses that were interested in exploring the effective use of ICTs.

He chairs e-Learnz Inc., an Incorporated Society of Tertiary Institutions with an interest in eLearning. He is a Trustee of the 2020 Communications Trust and the Computer Access New Zealand Trust. He is Deputy Chair of the National Commission for UNESCO in New Zealand and also chairs the Communications Sub Commission. At the international level he chairs the 26-country Intergovernmental Council for the UNESCO Information for All Programme.

He is a Harkness Fellow with degrees in Engineering from Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand, Public Policy from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. In 2006, the Institution of Professional Engineers in New Zealand awarded him the Rabone Award for ICT, a Supreme Technical Award for Engineering Achievers.

Anne Bartlett-Bragg, UTS, Dip HRM (Monash), BEd in Ad Ed (UTS), MEd in Ad Ed (UTS), currently lectures at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and is involved with the design, development and delivery of e-Learning qualifications and subjects at UTS un the Faculty of Education, including the AQTF qualification, the Diploma of e-Learning.

Anne is currently the Executive Director of the Learning Technologies User Group (LTUG), the newly formed global Social Software Associates, and also has a consultancy business, A2B Learning, which specialises in the integration of technology enhanced learning solutions. She is a regular speaker at both national and international conferences, and has recently published several academic papers.

Anne is particularly interested in the forms of communication that e-Learning is constructing and how current pedagogical practises can more effectively engage the learner through the use of both synchronous and asynchronous technologies. She is working on her PhD that will investigate the development of digital dialogues through the use of weblogs or webpublishing technologies.

Jane Fischer, BA Vis Arts, BEd (Sec), Grad Dip Graphic Design, is the Education Programs Teacher at lab.3000 Incubator in Melbourne, Victoria. Lab.3000 incubator is an organisation where Technology Intersects with Education to Design New Ideas. She is involved in Research, design and delivery of innovative education, training and awareness building programs to industry, schools, the corporate and community sectors. Jane has considerable experience in teaching design and art from the middle to senior years.

Jane was one of twelve applicants recently selected as E-Learning Leaders for RMIT. This position involves Jane being trained over a 12 month period in the delivery of E-Learning to university students and teachers. Jane will develop her own skills in E-Learning and facilitate and devise strategies to support her colleagues. Jane's specific interests are in the area of mobile learning and mobile technologies including mobile phones.

Adrian Greig is a Project Officer with the ICT learning Innovation Centre(Education Queensland). His 'Thinking Digitally' project is investigating ways that digital media and content can be used in the classroom context to support student learning. Adrian is a sought after presenter in the use of digital media and how it relates to education in Queensland schools. Adrian was the winner of the Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education's 2003 Emerging Leader of the Year Award.

Jody Kennedy, is a Videoconferencing Educator with Eastview Middle School, White Plains New York. I began the videoconferencing initiative in my school in 2000 and my life has never been the same since! This initiative has expanded to 7 of our 12 schools. Our teachers now team teach with colleagues from all over the world. We are in our second year of piloting the Global Run project which serves as a culmination for all that we have learned about videoconferencing and integrative technologies in the past 7 years. This project addresses how schools can integrate global awareness and service learning into curriculum based lessons with universal themes.

Last year our school raised $10,000 to help build a school with safe drinking water in Kenya. This year we expand the Global Run pilot to other schools around the world. 25 schools in 14 countries will replicate the project as a global community. Videoconferencing and integrative technologies have enabled us to have a whole new perspective on what it means to teach in the 21st century.

A national leader in IVC, Janine Lim has coordinated videoconferencing for 18 school districts in southwest Michigan since 1999. One of the founders of TWICE, Michigans K12 Videoconferencing organization, Lim has spearheaded popular IVC projects such as Read Around the Planet and MysteryQuest, and maintains the BCISD Field Trip Database. In addition, Lim teaches a popular online class for using videoconferencing, Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections, which has attracted participants from all over the U.S. as well as Costa Rica and Guatemala. Committed to promoting quality IVC educational experiences, Lim writes a regular blog sharing experiences, curriculum thoughts, new resources, and technology comments related to educational videoconferencing.

Greg O'Grady, Dip.T. BEdSt. MCurrSt., has been involved in online learning and flexible delivery for more than twenty years. He has carried out pioneering work across Education Queensland in introducing the concept of Virtual Schooling.

Greg initiated the use of teleLearning and audiographics programs for delivery of both Languages other than English (LOTE) and mainstream curriculum during the 90s as well as carrying out the first trials of interactive television between schools using UHF radio technologies.

Greg is currently involved in implementing new audiographic technologies across all Queensland State Schools that will permit students,teachers and public servants to access voice over IP (VOIP), full video interactions and shared computer desktop programs from any computer on the Education Queensland network via single convergent technology.

Greg has presented at a number of World Conferences in Norway, Birmingham and the United States. He is currently the project leader for the development of convergent technologies within the Office of Strategic Information and Technologies, Education Queensland.

Elaine Shuck joined Polycom in June 2003 as the Global Education Market Coordinator. At Polycom her responsibilities are to ensure complete customer and partner success, product development related to the education and training segments, and to facilitate industry utilization of educational technology.

Prior to joining Polycom, Elaine was the director of the South Dakota Interactive Videoconferencing Smart Centers. Elaine also served as Educational Advocate/Instructional designer for South Dakota Public Schools. In this position she provided consulting in distance learning programs, medical education and corporate training segments. As a Distance Learning Coordinator, her role was to work with teachers and students to provide videoconferencing opportunities for curriculum enhancement. She has worked at a national and international level to deliver training to educational groups on topics such as interactive and engaging videoconferencing, distance learning course development, instructional design and delivery and videoconferencing etiquette and protocol.

Elaine is an active member of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Consortium for School Networking (COSN), and partners with the Learning Technologies User Group (LTUG). She also serves on the Keystone Conference steering committee, a global conference dedicated to interactive videoconferencing users, as chairperson for the outreach committee. Elaine served as a Chairperson for the Interactive Videoconference (IVC) Showcase Committee for the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) 2006.

Graham Anderson B.A.(Hons), B.Ed., Grad.Dip.Ed.Tech. is a learning resource developer and publisher, project manager, videoconference teaching instructor and long-time proponent of flexible delivery of education and training. Having originally studied Spanish language and linguistics in South Australia, he completed a Graduate Diploma of Educational Technology in 1985, and became the Senior Education Officer in Educational Technology for the Northern Territory Department of Education and TAFE from 1987 to 1995. He was the NT delegate to the national TAFE Flexible Delivery Working Party 1991-4.

Graham moved to Warwick and joined Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE (SQIT) in 1995. Since then he has managed nearly a million dollars worth of learning resource development projects, including two which were fully on-line resources-a complete course for Cert. IV in Agriculture (Rural Business Management) in 1998, and Senior First Aid in 2004. Graham was selected as a national Flexible Learning Leader in 2001, and carried out research into internet-based remote-area delivery of training in Australia, Alaska and Canada. He is currently manager of the FlexiLearn Centre at Warwick campus of SQIT.

John Clement Blakeley BA, Dip Ed., M.Ed Admin, MACE, AIMM, is currently Director at the Open Learning Institute of TAFE. John has worked in Education and Vocational Education and Training at Secondary level and TAFE Institutions in both teaching and education administration roles, initially in Victoria (including one year as an International teaching fellow in the USA) and then Queensland (In Cairns and in Brisbane).

Prior to his work at OLI, the positions he has held in Curriculum and Research and Development have meant working with National and State bodies to develop products and curriculum processes for the VET environment. This has also meant the development of implementation strategies - the bridge between policy and performance.

John was the recipient of a Flexible Learning Leader (Change Management) Scholarship in 2002 and visited Canada, USA, Europe and the UK researching e-education, as a pre-cursor to developing the OLI's "e-strategy".

He has undertaken study tours to the US and UK (1994, 1997) to review practices in workplace training (competencies - 1994) and the use of ICT (1997).

Judi Brooks is a lecturer for TAFESA's Wine, Viticulture & Regional Food team based in the Barossa Valley. The team are leaders in offering specialist training to industry using different methodologies . Along with once owning a vineyard Judi has worked in various sectors of the wine industry nationally and internationally. Judi has a strong interest and experience in the use of technologies in learning which stemmed from her former role as a co-ordinator in external wine studies at Margaret River TAFE in Western Australia where she explored alternate ways to deliver learning to remote students.

This interest has continued through to her current role where she develops content on interactive CD-Rom along with progressing on-line learning within her team. In 2005 Judi facilitated a Learnscope E-learning project which has become a catalyst for the progression of E-learning for TAFESA Regional Wine, Viticulture & Food across the state.Judi's work with the innovative team has enabled creative solutions for the South Australian Wine and Food Industry.

Dr Mogana Dhamotharan, PhD; M Ed; M Ed; B Journalism; BA (Hons), is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, University Brunei Darussalam. She was an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Technology at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia prior to joining the University Brunei Darussalam in May 2005.

Dr Mogana Dhamotharan served at the University of Malaya from December 1977 to May 2005. Her areas of specialization include Educational Technology, Distance Education and Continuing Professional Development of Teachers. She was a Visiting Fellow at The Commonwealth of Learning from August 1994 to February 1995. Dr Mogana Dhamotharan was also The Commonwealth of Learning Consultant to the Open University of Sri Lanka from January to March 2004 to assist with the Master of Arts (International) Programme for teacher educators.

She has published books, articles as well as participated and presented papers and conducted Workshops at International, Regional and National Conferences and Seminars.

Tom Emeleus is Training Manager at Energy Australia. Tom has degrees in electrical engineering and International Studies, with a focus on South East Asia and a masters degree in management. Tom has worked in the electrical supply industry for 13 years in a range of roles, including project management of electricity and telecommunications infrastructure projects, internal audit, asset management in Indonesia and training. In his current role Tom is responsible for the largest apprenticeship program in NSW. He has also worked on IT development projects and is keen to foster the growth of e-Learning in his organisation and industry.

Megan Hastie, is a senior teacher at Brisbane School of Distance Education. For the past six years Megan has undertaken a trial of synchronous online teaching via the Internet with children aged 5 to 8 years. Megan is currently collaborating with Professor Nian-Shing Chen of National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, in her trial of synchronous online teaching with findings indicating that students demonstrate accelerated learning, higher motivation and higher concentration during online lessons.

Sarah K. Howard, is currently working on a PhD in Education, by research, at the University of Sydney in the CoCo Research Centre. She is a research assistant for a project looking at ICT literacy in pre-service teachers, at The University of Sydney. She holds a Master of Arts in Education, specializing in Educational Technology, from the University of San Francisco. Her undergraduate degree is in Studio Art and Art History, from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Sarah has worked in secondary education and graphic design, in the San Francisco Bay Area, for the last eight years. Before relocating to Sydney, she was Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Jewish Community High School, in San Francisco, and a member of the Technology Department. She worked with teachers to develop curriculum that effectively integrated technology and fine art. Her research interests are in risk-taking within curriculum change to develop project-based learning.

Hilary Lennon B.A., Grad Dip. App. Sc. (App. Psych.), M.Ed., MAPS., Ed.D.(Candidature. UNE), is a psychologist whose professional career has included work with a broad range of clients including juvenile and adult offenders, victims and perpetrators of abuse and those living with HIV/AIDS. Hilary lectures in Psychology at Shafston Institute, and has been a casual teacher at Bremer for eight years. In October 2003 she resigned from the Department of Families to focus on her main passion - teaching psychology, juvenile Justice and youth work.

In 2003, her interest in flexible delivery resulted in research trialing an AOD toolbox with Distance Education students. Her present research relates to uptake of an LMS (iLearn) by staff and students. Hilary has received awards including:- DETIR 2001 Innovation in videostreaming, Queensland Government 2001 Year of the Volunteer, two Queensland AIDS Council awards, a Department of Families Best Practice Award and Bremer TAFE Staff Awards for Innovation (2004) and Staff Excellence (2005) in recognition of her contribution to iLearn.

Gidley McCullagh BE(Chem) BEc is a business development manager at Cubic Consulting. The firm provides a range of training services and specializes in eLearning. Gidley has extensive experience in the field of computer based and online training. He has been involved in the development of a wide range of programs for trainee groups ranging from truck drivers and furniture removers through frontline managers and professional operators in sales, finance, health and other industries.

Coming from a background of technical and industrial marketing Gidley has a focus on how online systems can be blended into other training and support modes to achieve direct and measurable outcomes for clients. In particular, Cubic Consulting is involved in eLearning services for electricity distributors, one of the largest employers of apprentices in Australia. As well as training apprentices, these organisations also have a commitment to ongoing training and testing of their field staff to ensure that they maintain their competencies.

Cubic Consulting and Energy Australia are engaged in a proactive partnership to bring essential online programs to the Energy Industry to provide support for its increasingly demanding needs for training.

Jayne Siegele is a lecturer for the Wine, Viticulture and Regional Food program at TAFESA Regional, Barossa Valley. TAFESA Regional Wine, Viticulture and Food Team are leaders in offering specialist training to industry through various methodologies.

Her specialist teaching areas are Cellar Door Sales, Communications, Tourism and Wine Tourism and she co-ordinates and provides educational delivery for the Diploma of Wine and Food. Jayne's provides educational services across the state of South Australia.

Jayne's interests are researching, developing and evaluating diverse teaching methodologies to meet wine industry needs. This came from her co-ordination of the Small Business Management external learning program at TAFESA in 2001. Jayne is currently investigating on-line learning methodologies to suit industry needs and participated in a 2005 Learnscope Project. She is investigating pod casting and has developed a pod cast for the teams Post Vintage Tasting event in the Barossa Valley.

Jayne in partnership has produced numerous external learning interactive CD Roms for Cellar Door Sales, Diploma of Wine and Food and Wine Tourism to suit industry needs. These CD Roms have been utilised by the TAFESA Wine, Viticulture and Regional Food team for state wide and interstate students.