Higher Education Whisperer

My third video meeting for the day was a K12 EdTech Showcase hosted by EduGrowth, an Australian educational technology innovation hub. T...

The Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) held a video meeting today to discuss what to do about Work Integrated Learning (WI...

It is time for lecturers to swallow our pride and accept the "sage on the stage" is not that important to student learning. In pl...

Staff of universities and research organizations should have by now been issued guidelines for them to limit face to face meetings, and mo...

The Australian Department of Health is providing COVID-19 Infection Control Training online for healthcare and related workers.  The modul...

A timely article  today on "Online schooling and distance ed? Don’t be afraid, we’ve been doing and improving it for 100 years " ...

I suggest a flipped approach for on-line educaiton, which supplements text and pre-recorded material with live participation. While vid...

Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes , Instructor Athabasca University (Canada), is offering a free five-week online course Learning to Learn On...

The Australian National University is to pause all coursework teaching for one week from Monday 23 March and then deliver online for the r...

I was asked recently what to do if a student who is enrolled on campus asks to switch to online study, due to fear of COVID-19 Coronavirus...

Last week I attended a Service Design Meetup at the Canberra Innovation Network , sponsored by Evolve & Amplify. We went through the ...

One of the benefits of computers in education is that this makes distance education a richer experience and feasible for more students....

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig, 2006 Universities are canceling events to minimize the risk of the tran...

Media reports indicate that some universities are postponing examinations due to the about the COVID-19 Coronavirus . Unfortunately this e...

The World Health Organization has released a series of web based courses about the COVID-19 Coronavirus . These are intended for  health p...

Tom Worthington speaking at NITC 2018 Those organizing international conferences in the next few months need to have a blended, or full...

A short Guide for delivery of online education into China has been released by the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (17 February ...

This is to suggest educational institutions revise, or create, their Infectious Disease Outbreak Response Plan, now . Australian universitie...

Casual teaching staff at some Australian universities are reported to be “panicking” over the implications of students who are unable to ge...

Yesterday I was asked about how to assess students who are unable to get to campus due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus . Many Australian univers...