Higher Education Whisperer

On my last full day in Perth I dropped in to visit Moodle HQ . Few realize that the globally used free open source e-learning software Moodl...

Within ten years most university courses will be provided globally on-line. How can Australian universities compete in this market? I sugges...

This week I had the pleasure of dining at St Catherine’s College in Perth. This is a small college just across the road from University of ...

I will be speaking on " A Green Computing Professional Education Course Online " at the Computer Science & Software Engineerin...

Professor Shannon Johnston and the team from University of Western Australia's Centre for the Advancement of Teaching ( CATL, pronounced...

James G. Mazoue lists " Five Myths about MOOCs " which challenge the idea that MOOCs are a form of low cost production line educa...

LH Martin Institute and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) released the report " Profiling diversity of Australian ...

On Thursday I attended the Perth MBA & Postgrad Studies Expo . This had many of the same exhibitors as the Canberra Expo , I attended tw...

While in Perth I dropped into to see Ben Killigrew at the UWA Pilbara Project , which is looking at setting up an office in north Western ...

The Australian National University, where I teach, has selected Echo360 for recording lectures in lecture theaters. This will replace a be...

Paul Johnson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia (UWA) issued " UWA Futures: White Paper " in August 2012. The...

The recording of my webinar " MOOCs with Books: Technology Plus Traditional Teaching for an On-line Education Revolution " is now ...