Contents

President·s Report By Shelda Debowski

From the Editor

Learning and Teaching Spaces in the Digital Age-Build it and They will Come? Provoking Reflections By Reem AJ.Mahmood. Christine Goodacre & Andrelyn Applebee

The Robotics Peer Mentoring Program By Brenton Dansie

THE LEARNING AND ACADEMIC SKILLS CONFERENCE 2005 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Critiquing and Reflecting By Kate Chanock

Educational Development in the USA. 2006 By D. Lynn Sorenson

I.T. IN HIGHER EDUCATION COLUMN
The Copyright Times They Are A·Changin· By Roger Atkinson

THREE HIGHER EDUCATION SOCIETIES AGREE TO SHARE
News Strengthening the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Canada By Julia Christensen Hughes

RESEARCH REPORT
Conversations with an Examiner By Geof Hill

CONFERENCE REPORTS
Making it Quantitative: Report on the 2006 Teaching and Leaming Forum in Economics. Commerce and Business Disciplines By Martin Davies
ASCILITE 2005 Balance. Fidelity. Mobility: Maintaining the momentum? By Belinda Tynan

BRANCH REPORTS New Zealand By Kathryn Sutherland

New Local NSW HERDSA Network for Higher Education Researchers By Simon Barrie

BOOK REVIEWS