Q&A with Glyn Davis, the RDSI project, interactive technologies in education, Telemedicine, AARNet Excellence Awards...

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June 2014

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Enter AARNet Excellence Awards 2014

Nominate your projects that demonstrate innovative leadership & technical engineering expertise using AARNetâ€™s high-speed network or services. Entries close midnight 27 June 2014. MORE INFO

Q&A Interview with Prof. Glyn Davis, VC University of Melbourne

Watch the first video in our series of interviews with R&E sector leaders exploring the rise of network-enabled teaching and learning. Professor Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne talks about the impact, pros, cons and future of massive open online courses (MOOCs) for higher education. The MOOC is just one the innovative online learning models to emerge in recent years that leverage networking technologies and challenge the traditional on-campus classroom model of teaching and learning... WATCH VIDEO

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AARNet deploys high speed data connections for RDSI
AARNet is rolling out new high-speed data connections to eight Research Data Storage Infrastructure nodes as part of the DaShNet project funded through the Federal Governmentâ€™s National Research Network Program. UniSA is the lead agent for the NRN, which is an initiative of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy...
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Digital Silk Road connects more than 55 million researchers: Australia to Asia - Asia to Europe
The Trans Eurasian Information Network (TEIN) is the world's largest research and education network, providing dedicated high-capacity Internet connectivity for R&E communities across the Asia Pacific, supporting climate and food security research, eLearning...
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CloudStor software wins international award
FileSender, the software underpinning our CloudStor large file transfer service developed by AARNet in collaboration with several other research and education networks around the world received the prestigious International Research and Education Community Award announced at the Terena 2014 networking conference in Dublin...
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Harnessing the power of research networks for surgical training

For Adelaide University Professor Rajvinder Singh, performing an endoscopy in front of a live audience for medical training purposes is fairly routine, but, for the hospital, when the operation was beamed live to an audience located thousands of miles away in Japan, the experience was entirely new... READ MORE

How to use interactive technologies for teaching and learning - ITEC 2014

Are you interested in interactive and real-time technologies for education? Are you also looking for information about available resources as well as practical tips and inspiration for how to appliy these technologies in the learning context? Then come along to the Interactive Technologies in Education Conference, hosted by Sydney Opera House and AARNet, July 9-10.
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STAFF PROFILE

Tao Ren - Unified Communications Engineer, Product Solutions

I'm enjoying working with the AARNet team and customers to manage the operation of unified communications (UC) infrastructure. I provide technical support and connect new institutions to the AARNet Unified Communications Exchange, a platform that facilitates cross-institution rich media communications... READ MORE

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2014 EVENTS

High-performing network connectivity to Asia is vital for Australia
The new world of teaching & learning with video conferencing and AARNet
AusCERT 2014 - Trusting security conference highlights
CloudStor upgrade delivers new functionality

QUESTnet 2014 1-4 July
ITEC 2014 9-10 July
eResearch Australasia 2014 27 -31 October