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Project Background
Project Title
Internationalisation of subject content of the recordkeeping specialisation in the Master of Information Management with reference to the global context of the students' learning environment.Research Team
| Assoc Professor Sue McKemmish Frank Upward Barbara Reed Robert Hartland | Chief Investigator Chief Investigator Research Consultant Research Assistant |
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Project Background
The recordkeeping program of the School of Information Management and Systems have been developed within the Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program. It is taught within that course in addition to being a professional program available to undergraduates as a specialisation in the third year of the Bachelor of Information Management and Systems. The program has been accredited by the two professional societies involved in recordkeeping: the Records Management Association of Australia and the Australian Society of Archivists. The recordkeeping programs of the School are both nationally and internationally recognised as leading edge education for recordkeeping professionals.The program includes a core of four professional subjects which are available both in distance education mode and on campus. These subjects have been tailored for delivery into workplace-based training and education programs and have been successfully delivered in distance education mode to over one hundred staff of the National Archives of Australia.
International students are enrolled in these subjects both on campus at Clayton and remotely through distance education delivery. Recent and current international representation in these subjects has been from:
- Malaysia
- Indonesia
- Singapore
- Vietnam
- Thailand
- various Pacific islands
- Papua New Guinea
- New Zealand
- Zambia
- Uganda.
In many of these countries, our ex-students are occupying senior professional positions, many with formal or informal educational roles.
Recordkeeping and the culture of recordkeeping has a close relationship to the constitution of legal structures and the functioning of society. Many countries to which we deliver our programs (and countries in which we seek to deliver our programs) have different societal structures and legal environments. Recordkeeping in those different contexts is no less critical, but the impetus for keeping records in other environments comes from a range of different perspectives. Providing education for recordkeepers must be tailored to their cultural needs, as well as being educationally sound and it is this understanding which underlies this project.
It is hoped, also, that on-campus students will benefit from the globalisation of our course content by the inclusion of material exploring recordkeeping values and triggers in a variety of social and political contexts.
Project Activities and Products
Our project seeks:
- to consolidate existing international links through innovative educational networking
- to investigate methods of tailoring course content for delivery into specific national/cultural contexts
- to develop methods of course delivery and assessment appropriate to specific Asian and African cultures
- to develop recordkeeping case studies from a range of Asian and African countries
- to feed our findings back into our Australian based recordkeeping programs thereby enriching the global context of our local and international students' learning.
The project plan is as follows:
- modularise the core professional subjects
- identify culture specific content and assessment activities
- establish network of international contacts and alumni
- establish a communication infrastructure through web-based technology
- establish international discussion groups to identify cultural-variables in subject content
- facilitate international discussion on culturally-appropriate assessment tasks
- commission a range of recordkeeping case studies from:
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Uganda
- Zambia
- incorporate findings into our Australian-based program delivery to both local and international students
- evaluation of findings
- report our findings to the Monash teaching community
The Purpose of this Web Site:
The success of this project is dependent upon the establishment of an international expert community and we hope that you will use this site as it evolves as the 'home base' from which you can add your questions, contributions and comments using the links that will be created to other pertinent sites and to the listserv which will created to enable you to communicate with project team members and other contributors.You will be notified whenever this site is updated.
A listserv called tifpro has now been established to facilitate communication.
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majordomo@dlar.fcit.monash.edu.auAn acknowledgement of your subscription and instructions will be sent to you by return email.
Case Studies for Evaluation:
Case Study 1
Case Study 2
Case Study 3
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