Associate Professor Allan Ellis MSc(Syd) PhD(Syd) BA(NE) GradDipExt(HAC) GradDipEdStud(MCAE) GradDipDistEd(SACAE) DipEd(NE) DipContEd(NE) Allan is currently Director of Research and Research Training for the School of Commerce and Management. He currently teaches and supervises post graduate students in the field of learning, training, technology implementation and change management. His research interests are in the areas of adult learning and educational technology with a particular focus on electronic networks such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. Allan is the organiser of the AusWeb Conference series and the Chair of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee. Allan supervises post graduate research students enrolled in Masters, PhD and Professional Docorates programs. He is a member of the International Centre for Change, Innovation and Organisational Research and the Centre for Curriculum, Innovation and Learning Technologies. He chairs the AusWeb conference series http://ausweb.scu.edu.au and is member of the International World Wide Web conference Committee http://www.iw3c2.org
Journal articles
Organisational and technological skills: the overlooked dimension of research training (with Renata Phelps and Kath Fisher), Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (2006)
Over the last three decades new technologies have emerged which have the capacity to considerably...
Organisational and technological skills: the overlooked dimension of research training (with Renata Phelps and Kath Fisher), Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (2006)
Over the last three decades new technologies have emerged which have the capacity to considerably...
Competency, capability, complexity and computers: exploring a new model for conceptualising end-user computer education (with Renata Phelps and Stewart Hase), British Journal of Educational Technology (2005)
Notions of competency have dominated the computer education literature, and have underpinned Competency-Based Training (CBT)...
Competency, capability, complexity and computers: exploring a new model for conceptualising end-user computer education (with Renata Phelps and Stewart Hase), British Journal of Educational Technology (2005)
Notions of competency have dominated the computer education literature, and have underpinned Competency-Based Training (CBT)...
Effective implementation of e-learning: a case study of the Australian Army (with Diane Newton), Journal of Workplace Learning (2005)
Purpose
This case study identifies factors influencing the implementation of e-Learning within the Australian Army...
Books
Organizing and managing your research: a practical guide for postgraduates (with Renata Phelps and Kath Fisher), School of Commerce and Management Papers (2007)
Organizational, management and technological skills are critical aspects of research and are often overlooked and...
Book chapters
Problems with online learning are systemic not technical (with Stewart Hase), Teaching & learning online : pedagogies for new technologies (2001)
Managing staff development for web-based teaching: a four stage model and its application (with Renata Phelps), Perspectives in web course management (2000)
Information technology and the NESB research student (with Renata Phelps), Supervising postgraduates from non-English speaking backgrounds (1999)
"Many universities in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have come to rely...
Conference publications
An e-learning comparative alignment framework (with Diane Newton), Proceedings of E-Learn 2007: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education (2007)
Researching the factors influencing e-learning effectiveness is a complex and contentious task due to the...
A model for e-learning integration (with Diane Newton), Proceedings of E-Learn 2006: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education (2006)
As yet there is no comprehensive theory to inform how the various elements of e-learning...
Exploring the Australian Army instructor's role in e-learning (with Diane Newton), Proceedings of E-Learn 2005: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education (2005)
An organisation’s eLearning culture is influenced by the traditional training culture and perceived relevance of...
Factors influencing the uptake of web-based learning in the Australian Army (with Diane Newton), Proceedings of AusWeb05 Conference (2005)
Understanding factors that influence the uptake of networked Web-Based Learning development within the highly authoritarian...
The Australian Army soldier's perspective of flexible learning: reserve distance learning pilot (with Diane Newton and Paul Ashman), AVETRA 2005 Annual Conference Proceedings (2005)
This study aims to understand the perceptions of soldiers involved in the shift to flexible...