Post CCi Conference: Brisbane, June 2008

Had a great time at the CCi 'Creating Value: Between Values & Commons', the international conference of the ARC Centre for Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation, with several papers presented and published from staff of the Queensland Conservatorium (links to abstracts and papers, below). 

Mine was a piece oriented around the issues that come in music licensing and its implications for education in Australian universities, Who’s really doing the stealing? How the music industry’s pathological pursuit of profit and power robs us of innovation (perhaps of interest, in the light of the recent Fête de la Musique discussion).

Matt Hitchcock, leader of the Bachelor of Music Technology program presented his work on web 2.0 and collaborative on-line learning in his paper, Making music together: The blending of an on-line learning environment for music artistic practice. 

And Don Lebler, leader of the Bachelor of Popular Music program co-authored a piece in collaboration with international education guru Prof Eric McWilliam, entitled Aligning curriculum, pedagogy and assessment for building creative capacity in undergraduate students: a case study from the con.