Allan Ellis, from Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia, likes the sense of innovation that pervades IDG Macworld, and he talks in this interview about the ways in which education needs to change in response to some of the technological developments in evidence here. Allan feels that devices such as the iPhone could turn around the way we have traditionally conducted assessment in higher education.

No longer need students be locked away in a room scrawling in individual examination books; they could rather be out there in the real world, working with real world data, and collaboratively solving real world problems. And devices like the iPhone could allow us to track their performance and assess them appropriately

Allan was interviewed by Allan Carrington in one of the cavernous spaces of San Francisco’s Moscone Centre.

Background photo from Flickr.com: uploaded on September 7, 2008 by Pyrii