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This year's WCELfest took place on Thursday 31st January 2013 and was another successful day. We had over 150 registrations and feedback so far has been fantastic.   

In an excellent keynote address, Dr John Hinchcliff examined how we should approach the future of learning and the pressures forcing change on the academy while finding a careful balance between our engagement with technology and engaging with the person.

Recordings of the day's events, including Dr John Hinchcliff's keynote, are now available online.

WCeLfest 2012 is now a dim memory even though it happened less than a month ago. On reflection, it's worth noting what a coup it was to get Gilly Salmon 

as the keynote speaker and she was approachable and interesting both personally and with her presentation. All the resources and video recordings of sessions are available from this page. 

Good to catch up with elearning practitioners from the region - participants included people from Wintec, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Te Wananga o Aotearoa, and Waiariki Institute of Technology. 

In 2007 our University initiated a project to deploy Moodle across the campus so we could provide an internationally recognised and robust eLearning environment for our teachers and learners.  At the same time the Waikato Centre for eLearning (WCEL) was created and tasked with supporting and developing the use of eLearning across the institution.

The Moodle project had several outputs, one of which was a report on the current use of eLearning in the University. There were several messages from this report, one of which was that staff can be very unaware of what is happening elsewhere in the University in terms of eLearning. This includes across Schools, within Schools and even within departments. To begin to address this, we decided to organise WCELfest08, a one day conference to share some of the practice happening here at our own University.