Higher Education Whisperer

Greetings from ASCILITE 2023 in Christchurch, where David White , Dean of Academic Strategy (Online) at University of the Arts London , and ...

Learning and teaching reimagined , JISC, 2020 The UK's JISC think-tank have put forward the hyflex plus university as a vision fo...

In " Australia doesn’t have too many universities. Here’s why " (The Conversation, 15 March 2018), Gavin Moodie , Adjunct profes...

The Open University UK (OUUK) has announced a "root and branch review of every aspect of its operations", with  "major savin...

The book " Teaching in a Digital Age " by A.W. (Tony) Bates (2016, 528 pages) is an excellent free resource available on-line fr...

Lowe, Mestel and  Williams (2016) report on attitudes of staff and students to on-line mathematics and computing courses at the UK Open Un...

Dr Cathy Stone , a Fellow at the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education , dropped in this week to talk about how student re...

In looking for some papers for my ICT Sustainability students to read, I came across " Designing low carbon higher education systems: ...

Edmon de Haro writes in the New York Times that "... information technology is poised to transform college degrees" (" Online...

MOOC provider Coursera is reported to be creating "learning hubs" for students to meet in person. This is not surprising as stud...

Susan Toohey's book " Designing Courses For Higher Education " was published in 1999, but is very relevant to today's de...

In " eAssessment with Moodle " the UK Open University has produced a short set of examples of how quiz questions can be set and in...

Professor Barber, Vice Chancellor of the University of New England (UNE), is reported to be suggesting changes to regulations to make it e...

Continuing my browsing of the shelves of the ADFA Library , I came across " Reconsidering Open and Distance Learning in the Devel...

The book " Preparing Materials for Open, Distance and Flexible Learning " (by Derek Rowntree , Routledge, 1993) , is another of...

Greville Rumble's " The Costs and Economics of Open and Distance Learning " (Routledge, 1997) was written in the early days ...

Cameron Barnes' paper " MOOCs: The Challenges for Academic Librarians ", (Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 1 Au...

In " MOOCs vended learning " (Higher Education section, The Australian newspaper, 21 Aug 2013), e-learning innovator Gilly Salmon ...

Recently I was browsing the shelves of the education section of the Australian Defence Force Academy Library (ADFA) in Canberra. I came acro...