The Working Futures Foundation has been established to remove the commercial imperative from major research projects. The Foundation's research and work focus on providing independent investigation and reports into national and industry workforce planning, regional development, and commentary on the impact of the Digital Economy on communities and especially young people and those in rural and remote locations

WHAT WE DO

The Foundation works in collaboration with government, professional, national industry skills councils and the University of Tasmania to conduct research. The focus is on research that can directly assist overcome common barriers that impinge upon transformational change, skills development, Improved approaches to learning And regional development. Research is both self-funded and sponsored by
partners.

CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUS

• The Digital Economy
• e-Skills: the ICT capabilities and skills required in future
• Workforce Planning
• How young people engage with and learn using ICTs
• Virtual learning & open educational resources (OER's)
• Virtual Co-laboratories

The Board

The Working Futures Foundation Advisory Board:

• Dr Marcus Bowles, Chair
• Heather Schoenheimer, MD HS Consulting (UK)
• Peter Lewis, MD Australian Training Management
• Marcel Chaloupka, MD Edmedia Australia Pty. Ltd.
• John Andrius, Educational Leader, Interactive Digital Media, Tasmanian Polytechnic

The Board identifies, prioritises, advises and, at times, actively sponsors projects.

 

Bowles, M. (March 2010). Leadership Development Guide, Canterbury District Health Board: Christchurch.

 

Bowles, M. & Wilson, P. (December 2009). Scoping review of the Information and Communications Technology Training Package V3.0, Stage 1 Report. IBSA: Melbourne.

 

 

Bowles, M. (17 December 2009). Applied Research Project Telecommunications Industry: Review of occupations, skills demand and the impact of the National Broadband Network. IBSA: Melbourne.

 

 

Bowles, M. (16 December 2009). Review of the Digital Games Development: Game Art, Animation and Programming. DEEWR & IBSA: Melbourne

 

 

Bowles, M. & Wilson, P. (6 March 2009). Hanging out - Messing about - Geeking out: How young people engage with technology, Report for the Flexible Packaging of Technology Training Packages: Investigative Research Report into making ICT-related Training Packages more flexible and relevant to young people. Innovation & Business Skills Australia for COAG and NQC: Canberra.

• Bowles (Dec, 2006). Competency Analysis Guide (DManual, revised May 2007)
• Bowles and Schoenheimer (August 2007). Human Capability Development (2nd edition, DBook)
• Bowles (2004).Relearning to Elearn (DBook available from Melbourne University Press)
• Bowles (2003, Revised 2007). Elearning Implementation Process Manual (DManual)
• Bowles & Wilson (2003). Reinvestigating Elearning Research Report (Report) This report is nearly 900 pages and 9 Meg
• Bowles (1993, 1996, 1999, Fully revised 2003). Assessment Tool Selection (Manual)
• Bowles (2000). Organisational Agility Generic Self Assessment Tool

• Bowles, M. (20 September 2010). Developing an integrated ICT Competency Framework: Debunking myths to posit a solution. World Computer Congress, Brisbane. (Presentation)
• Bowles, M. (1 July 2009) National Broadband Network and the Digital Economy: A Briefing Paper, summary (Please contact us for a full version outlining concerns about the availability of skills), Innovation and Business Skills Australia: Melbourne.
• Bowles, M. (March 2009). Building Effective Transformational Leadership Competency Development in Healthcare. Working Futures Research Paper 09-3.Canterbury District Health Board: Christchurch.
• Bowles, M. (2 October 2008). Competency versus Competence: Moving beyond the rhetoric to an integrated approach. Working Futures Research 2008:12. The Knowledge Exchange: Australia. (Presentation)
• Bowles and Chaloupka (2007). SMART Conference. (Presentation)
• Bowles & Ragus (December 2005).  QTI m-player project final report, Australian Flexible Learning Framework. 
• Bowles (April 2005). ‘Rediscovering the Benefits of E-Learning’, Malaysian Online Journal of Instructional Technology, Vol. 2, No.1, April 2005.  (Paper) 
• Bowles (9 October 2006).”Transport Integrated Learning and Information Service: Overview and drivers”, IDEA 2006 Integrated e-learning environments (Presentation)
• Bowles (August 2006). "If content is king then knowledge is divine", Digital Asset Management Asia-Pacific Conference, Sydney.
• Bowles (February 2005). "A new emphasis in strategic elearning", Harvest Road International eLearning Conference, Perth iHUG. (Presentation) 
• Nichani Bowles (28 April 2004). “Why Content is Queen, Context Is King and Infrastructure God”, Issues Paper: eAgenda International Forum (Paper)