Dr Roy Lundin is Senior Lecturer in Education at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He has been an educator and trainer for 41 years at all levels of schooling, college, university and private industry. In 1970 he became one of Queensland's first of 25 secondary teacher-librarians. He has specialised in and pioneered the use of communications technology for open learning, distance education, business and industry, particularly for continuing professional development, training and management. He has had over 40 major consultancies across Australia and internationally in the past 20 years dealing with all aspects of teleconferencing, distance education, open learning, system training networks and government policy. He was responsible for obtaining $4.5 million from the Queensland government for the Queensland Open Learning Project of which he was General Project Director, 1989 to 1991. He has worked with the Queensland government on several projects, including trialing and evaluating satellite and videoconferencing applications for government services and training. He has had over 120 papers, chapters, books and reports printed and published, including training manuals in the applications of teleconferencing in education and training, and he has presented over 220 conference papers.
He has worked with a large range of professional groups, including teachers, nurses and health workers, engineers, IT industry vendors and consultants, accountants and government public servants. For example, he was Project Director of two major consultancies on Open Learning for Teachers' Professional Development for the Australian Department of Employment, Education and Training, he produced a National Report for the Australian Principals' Associations Professional Development Council (APAPDC) and was Project Director for the recent implementation of three pilot projects using technology for the flexible delivery of principals' professional development programs. In 1995 he was Project Co-director on a major consultancy Project on Rural Health Communication and Information Technology (PRHCIT) funded by the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health. Since 1994 he has been a Principal Researcher working on a four year project investigating rural women's use of communication and information technology. From 1990 he has worked with the Institute of Chartered Accountants for the development of their programs for professional development by audioconferencing, interactive satellite and computer communication.
He has investigated all aspects of telecentres, open learning centres and telecottages in North America and Europe (including Sweden where telecottages originated) as well as with the telecentre initiatives in Australia. He was Founder and President of the Australasian Teleconferencing Association (ATA) in 1992-93 and 1995-96, and editor of the ATA Newsletter and The Australian Teleconferencing Directory. His research work focuses on the instructional design of teaching and learning programs using various forms of interactive media, including global networking. During 1997, QUT granted him six months Professional Development Leave and funded his investigations in North America and Europe to look at flexible delivery of professional development programs. In collaboration with Professor Barry Brown, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, he is jointly producing an online 'living book' on the Internet on this topic.
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