Educause in Australasia 2003
Community Radio Papers

Both education and broadcasting have changed a lot since the licensing of the 'educational' community radio stations in the 1970's. There are many ways in which they are converging, particularly through online technologies, creating opportunities for all community broadcasters to make new connections and explore different ideas for engaging with our communities, earning income and 'building up capacity' in our station.

Lifelong learning is both an educaional philosophy and a practical reality for all of us. People need - and want - to learn new skills throughout life, and the set of skills clustered around 'communication', 'community building', 'new technologies' and 'working in teams' have become more critical in just about all fields.

This is exactly what community radio broadcasters do! So it was with these ideas in mind that a group of community radio people presented papers at the recent Educause in Australasia 2003 conference in Adelaide, May 6-9. Hosted by the University of Adelaide, this large international conference brought together people working at the intersection of education and new technologies in areas such as online education and e-learning, from Neighbourhood Houses to Libraries and Universities.

You can download the papers we presented here:

Keynote

David Sice, CBAA Technical Advisor
Digital Delivery Network: Breaking New Ground in Digital Media [PDF]

Session: New Ideas in Community Broadcasting

Deborah Welch, Tony Ryan & Nicky Page, Radio Adelaide
The 21st Century Audio Station
This paper has accompanying audio files. Please download audio files: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Simon Goodrich, SYN FM, Melbourne
Switching on to Learning through Community Radio [Word97]

Liz Tynan, Edge FM, Tasmania
On The Air: Project Based Teaching in the Broadcast Media [Word97]

The official Educause website can be found here.