Jo Murray
    What makes me tick?

    I enjoy living on the south east coast of Tasmania at Bream Creek with my partner, Nick. I work from home, and take breaks to walk my dog Jip on Marion Bay Beach. I enjoy playing music (keyboards, vocals and perscussion), reading books and treasure our spectacular environment, flora and fauna.

    What sparks my professional interests?

  • Using participatory, action technologies to mentor leaders as they move their organisations into new ways of working, specialising in e-learning. See the Flexible Learning Leaders program.
  • Sharing the action research and knowledge developed through the Web. See The Knowledge Tree an e-journal of Learning Innovation (VET) which I edited and produced from 2002-2007.
  • Using critical questioning to mentor designers of e-learning materials and professional development products in the Flexible Learning Toolboxes initiative, 2002 - current
  • Enabling and supporting practitioners eg. educators to transform what they do by, for example, encouraging them to innovate, demystifying new technologies, focusing on what their clients want, so their organisations can develop more flexibility.

    • What have I done to get here?

    Taught in Tasmanian District High Schools, eg. Savage River, Woodbridge and Oatlands, where I helped start the Year 11/12 annexe in 1987-88 and first got into vocational education and training (VET). 

    Moved into Distance Education/Open Learning in Tas. before moving to Queensland, to work in materials development with the schools based OpenAccess Support Centre. I helped establish a joint TAFE /IndustryTraining Board Skills Assessment Centre in Brisbane. 

    Returned to Tas. to specialise in action learning and action research methodologies as Senior Project Officer with the Australian National Training Authority's (ANTA) national professional development program for Vocational Education and Training (VET) (CBT/Work Based Learning in Action Scheme). It was the forerunner of later LearnScope, Framing the Future and e-Learning Innovations programs.

    That's how I met Frankie and we set up Pelion to deliver the Graduate Certificate in Training (Action Learning) and other qualifications like Frontline Management, Assessment and Workplace Training and e-learning/online facilitation using action learning techniques.

    Pieces of Paper:

    Masters in Education (Distance Education), BA. Dip. Ed, Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training, Certificate in TEFL, Dip. Frontline Management,  Dip. Assessment and Training Systems, Grad. Cert. in Training (Action Learning).

    Published material:

    Check out the Knowledge Tree e-Journal for recent articles and book reviews eg.
    Peer to Peer Collaboration,
    Team E-moderation using ElluminateLive!
    and various research summaries and Tasmanian Flexible Learning reports.

    Read this RTO Case Study on how we turned Pelion into an e-learning organisation.

    The Practice of Action Learning, 1996, published by ANTA.

    Contact me on:

    Phone/Fax 61 (0) 3 6253 6029 Mobile 0427 026 990

    Email jomurray2007 at gmail.com

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