Dr. Andrew E. Fluck

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position:

Lecturer in Information Technology.

Qualifications:

BSc(hons) PGCE MACS PCP CEng MEd, PhD

Born: 1May55

Contact details:
School of Education
Faculty of Education
University of Tasmania,
Locked Bag 1307,
Launceston,
Tasmania 7250,
Australia.

Phone +61 3 6324 3284 fax +61 3 6324 3048

e-mail: Andrew.Fluck(at)utas.edu.au

My goal is to maximise the benefits of information and communication technology (ICT), and minimise the harms. Education is an area where ICT can make a great contribution. See my publications and MEd on the Social Effects of New Technology in Schools and I have also given international keynotes on the use of ICT for persons with disabilities

I have made globally significant contributions through the world peak body for research into this area (UNESCO-IFIP-WG 3.3) with a forthcoming book chapter in press. Nationally, my advice has influenced the $1.2b Digital Education Revolution for the Australian Government. This is evidenced by the publication of the report containing my advice on the home page of the government web-site (Fluck, 2007, p.31).

Through my UTAS career I have been highly innovative, pioneering significant teaching methods such as video-conferencing, online learning and recently, eExams. I am collaborative in working with colleagues, with numerous sole authored and jointly authored articles (in A/A* journals), refereed conference papers, chapters and a book.

As a member of Academic Senate I have contributed to the governance of the University, particularly for the digital submission of theses and retaining Education as a Faculty. Within Tasmania I have made significant contributions to the concepts of intellectual property and freedom in the school curriculum through review of the ICT curriculum framework.

Academic Record & Memberships of Academic/Professional organizations

Award	Institution	Year
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Mathematical Sciences	University of Bristol, UK	1976
Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (secondary Mathematics & Gifted Children)	University of Bristol, UK	1977
Qualified Teacher, UK	Department of Education and Science, UK	1980
Member	British Computer Society	1986
Certificate for Research Methods in Education and the Social Sciences	Open University, UK	1989
Tasmanian Teacher's Certificate	Tasmanian Education Department	1990
Member	Australian Computer Society	1991
Chartered Engineer	The Engineering Council, UK	1992
Tasmanian Teacher's Certificate	Department of Education and the Arts, Tasmania	1994
Practising Computer Professional	Australian Computer Society	1993-
Master of Education (by Research, Social Effects of New Technology in Schools)	University of Tasmania	1995
Doctor of Philosophy Integration or transformation? A cross-national study of information and communication technology in school education	University of Tasmania	2003

Academic & Author

I have contributed to and written over 63 published works and a registered chair design.

Summary of publication outputs

Refereed journal articles (using draft Excellence in Research for Australia rankings):

1 x A*; 3x A/A*; 4 x A; 3 x B; 5 x C; pre-ERA=15

2 x Books. The most recent was favourably reviewed in Synergy 5(2)67.

3 x Chapters in books

26 x Refereed Conference papers

Internationally recognised service

· 2004 elected member of UNESCO’s International Federation for Information Processing Technical Committee 3 Working Group 3.3 on Educational Research (world peak body for research into computers in education).

Nationally recognised service

· 2000-2002 co-convenor of the Australian Computers in Education Conference, Hobart, with 490 delegates, 326 of whom came from outside Tasmania from mainland Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Luxembourg, India, USA and England.

· Delivered keynote address to national conference: 1987 Micro-Electronics in Special Education - Keynote address. Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Special Education: Melbourne, Australia.

· Member of DEST writing party for (2001) Making Better Connections, a national report into the future direction of ICT in school education.

· Member of national reference group for (2002) Raising the Standards: A proposal for the development of an information and communication technology (ICT) competency framework for teachers for the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training: Canberra, Australia.

· In 1994 I contributed the policy document Computers in Schools - a framework for development – a discussion paper to the national peak body for ICT in education, which remained current for over a decade.

· 2001 gave invited keynote address to the Tiger Leap Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

· 2005 gave invited keynote speech for the Ministry of Education in Taiwan for the Global Project Based Learning Forum and Exhibition from September 9 to 10, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Employment Record

Position: Head of Science From: September 1977 To: July 1979	Afikpo High School, Imo State, Nigeria. Appointed as a Voluntary Service Overseas teacher, I restored the laboratory block and science teaching after the depredations of the Biafran war.
Position: Head of Computing From: September 1979 To: May 1984	Stantonbury Campus, Buckinghamshire, England. I co-wrote a syllabus which was adopted as the global Royal Society of the Arts certificate in Computer Literacy and Information Technology.
Position: Director From: May 1984 To: February 1989	Redbridge SEMERC (Special Education Micro-Electronics Resource Centre), London, England. I led a team of over 12 staff, co-ordinating the introduction of information technology into schools for the 20% of students with special needs in south east England. At the national level, I developed materials which were subsequently written into the National Curriculum.
Position: Computer Co-ordinator From: February 1989 To: September 1989	Tasmania ITeC I was able to write several courses and enabled people with disabilities to obtain employment.
Position: Teacher From: September 1989 To: December 1989	Taroona High School. Working as a Science/Maths teacher I was also able to commence serious work on my research project as Scholar-in-Residence at the Philip Smith Education Centre.
Position: State Secondary Computer Consultant & Advisory Officer From: February 1990 To: September 1991	Elizabeth Computer Centre. I was able to find ways in which schools could utilise the Internet, and my task focussed upon connecting secondary schools into this system for student management and curriculum purposes.
Position: Advanced Skills Teacher 1 From: September 1991 To: December 1991	Kingston High School. I widened the use of technology in the school, creating the first network there.
Position: AST 1 & Network Manager From: February 1992 To: May 1995	Claremont College. I explored radically new forms of student-centred education, enabling students to log into the college from home after hours, changing the nature of the educational process.
Position: Lecturer in Technology Education [and Network Manager to February 2002] From: June 1995 To: present	Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania. Starting to teach electronics and control technology, I moved on to successfully integrate IT skills into the Bachelor of Education, the BEd In-Service, and the Bachelor of Teaching. I also ran courses for University lecturing staff from other Faculties who were exploring the new technologies for teaching. A major responsibility was supporting the computing infrastructure in the Faculty, co-ordinating the platform switch from Macintosh to PC and upgrading networks to cope with major video content. Championed the adoption of WebCT/Blackboard and other virtual learning environment applications to complement face-to-face teaching. Now working on eExaminations.

Interests:

Family and homestead, Information Technology in Education, Australian Computer Society, Archery

Revised 28^th August 2008