Garry Putland, General Manager - Business Development
Garry is currently responsible for the development of new services and business opportunities for education.au. He works closely with peak bodies and national/state organisations and has extensive experience in developing services which contribute towards strategic national priorities. Garry develops, negotiates and manages alliances both nationally and internationally where it brings benefit to the Australian education and training community.
He sits on an international review panel for the European Commission for a pan-European national e-learning project and is a member of the international GLOBE initiative which links like agencies in Canada, Japan, the US, Europe and Australia.
Garry was the co-writer of the education.au ‘Emerging Technologies’ paper (2005), which explored the impact of emerging technologies in education.
Garry has presented as keynote speaker at the TUANZ e-learning conference (2006), NIME (Japan) International Conference (2005) and the MERLOT (US) conference (2004). Although Garry’s background is in secondary teaching he has post graduate qualifications in Information Systems and is part way through a Masters of Information Innovation. Garry is also a member of the Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG).
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