Carrick Citation
Based on our work on student project subjects - students spend a year doing an industry/community project - Phillip Musumeci and I won a Carrick Citation for outstanding contributions to student learning in 2006:
“For creation of industry project subjects that cultivate practical skills for understanding problems and managing risks, supported by collaborative tools for peer review and reflection”
The Carrick citations are a government funded national award scheme managed by the Carrick Institute.
The platform for collaboration mentioned above is MoinMoin wiki, modified to only allow access by students. Each student maintains a wiki page to show the progress of their project. Students can easily share ideas and look at how past projects proceeded (or even improve the subject guidelines!).
I want to thank the IT lecturers in Cairns and Chris Christensen in Townsville for helping us to run these subjects and giving us great ideas; Tony Gleeson for helping us with the application; and PJ Radcliffe for providing us with the inspiration for these subjects.
