Introducing the network Chair: ICDE Institutional member University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ).

UniSQ will coordinate the network and activities for its first period (March 2024 – March 2026), supported by the ICDE Secretariat through an agreed mandate.

UniSQ has a passion to foster open sharing and online, international communities around online learning approaches using new and emerging tools and pedagogies.

Facilitator: Dr Julie Lindsay

Dr Julie Lindsay is the Senior Education Technology Advisor in the Learning and Teaching Futures Portfolio at the University of Southern Queensland. In this role she is a thought leader and change agent advocating for digital transformation through embedded educational technologies and relevant pedagogies. Julie has 35+ years’ experience in K-12 schools and higher education. In 2023 she was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for University Educational Leadership “For fostering student reflective learning, employability and professional identity through a university-wide, sustained initiative leading to changed academic practice through integration of online portfolios”.

Julie worked in international schools for fifteen years as an educational technology and online learning leader across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She is the author of two books: Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Mindsand The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching.

Julie completed a PhD at UniSQ in 2019 entitled ‘Online global collaborative educators and pedagogical change’. This research offered innovative insights into educator beliefs, competencies and conceptual change as enablers to adopting a Global Collaborator Mindset and implementing the Online Global Collaborative Learning Framework.

Artificial Intelligence is firmly on her agenda and she leads the AI Pedagogy Project at UniSQ, an initiative that aims to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to reimagine traditional approaches to education and foster innovation in teaching and assessment methods. Key research interests include the process for innovation and pedagogical change leveraged by educational technology and curriculum-embedded online global collaborative learning.