The balancing act: Managing emerging issues of elearning projects at the university of sydney

ASCILITE 2005 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 735-745

  Wozniak, Helen ^a   Scott, Karen M ^a   Atkinson, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Office of the PVC Learning and Teaching   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic and general staff; Collaboration; Communication; Project management

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC AND GENERAL STAFF; COLLABORATION; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; ICT SERVICES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; PROJECT MANAGERS; ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES; STUDENT LEARNING; TEACHING AND LEARNING; UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY; WORKING STYLES;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84870795632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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