Damien Clark

About Me

My name is Mr Damien Clark and I have worked for CQUniversity for 20 years, 18 years of which as an academic. During my tenure, I have fulfilled a number of roles, from technologist, working as a System Administrator to Lecturer with the former School of Computing Sciences, to Educational Designer with central Learning and Teaching, and for the past two years, an Education-Technology Innovation specialist with the Flexible Learning and Innovations Projects Team.

I’m a creative, a tinkerer, a problem-solver, and a privacy advocate.

General

Background

I have worked for CQUniversity for 20 years, 18 years of which as an academic. During my tenure, I have fulfilled a number of roles, from technologist, working as a System Administrator to Lecturer with the former School of Computing Sciences, to Educational Designer with central Learning and Teaching, and for the past two years, an Education-Technology Innovation specialist with the Flexible Learning and Innovations Projects Team.

Universities Studied At

CQUniversity

University of Southern Queensland

Awards

Pro Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (2011)
Deputy Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (2011)
Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (2011)
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Good Practice in Learning and Teaching (2014)
Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Learning and Teaching (2014)
AAUT National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2016)
Finalist – ASCILITE: Excellence in Learning Analytics (2015)
CQUniversity Student Voice Awards - Commendation (2015, 2016 & 2017)

Previous teaching

Information Technology / Computer Science

System Administration
Operating Systems
Data Communications and Networks
Networks
Digital Telecommunications and Networks Information Security
Network Security

Education

Design for Learning

Professional Experience

System Administrator (1996 - 2002)
Lecturer Information Technology (2002 - 2007)
Educational Designer (2007 - present)
Education Technology Innovation Specialist (2018 - present)

Professional Memberships

System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU) (2000 - 2007)

Key Achievements

CQuniversity's first High Performance Computing Facility (2001 - 2007)
Machinima for Engaging Learning Design (2007 - 2008)
Moodle 1.9 Project (2009)
Graduate Attributes Project (2010 - 2012)
DeHUB Grant - $113,000 (2011 - 2013)
Self and Peer Assessment Project (2011 - present)
Early Alert Student Indicators (EASICONNECT) Project (2009 - present)
Moodle Activity Viewer Project (2013 - present)

Computer Software

CQUniversity

Co-developer Graduate Attributes Mapping and Alignment System (2010 - 2012)
Co-developer Self & Peer Assessment System (SPA) (2011 - present)
Co-developer Early Alert Student Indicators (EASICONNECT) (2011 - present)
Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV) (2013 - present)
Buzzer.click (2015 - 2016)
Strategic Course Assessment Planning (2017 - present)
Online Realtime Clinical Assessment System (ORCAS) (2017 - present)
Offline Digital Clinical Assessments using PDF (2016 - 2017)
Moodle Course Searcher (2016)

Student Projects

QTIPA - Question and Test Interoperability - Parameterised Questions (2004 - 2005)
QTICAM - Question and Test Interoperability - Computer Assisted Marking (2005 - 2007)