Showing posts with label USQ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USQ. Show all posts
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Inaugural World Access to Higher Education Day is 28 November

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The inaugural World Access to Higher Education Day is 28 November. As part of this, University of Southern Queensland is webcasting a serie...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

What Makes for a Good Student Experience?

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The Australian 2017 Student Experience Survey (QILT, 2018), shows three non-government universities with much higher undergraduate student ...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Being a Mature Age University Student: 2011 to 2017

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Recently I was asked about studying as a mature age student. What inspired me was that as someone teaching at a university in 2011...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Open Educational Resources: Short free online course starts Monday from ANU

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A free on-line course " Open Educational Resources: A Continuum for Practice " is being offered by the Australian National Unive...
Friday, October 28, 2016

m-Learning in Sydney

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The 15th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2016), was held at the University of Technology in Sydney, 24 t...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Online Education for Prisoners

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Greetings from mLearn 2016 in Sydney, where Louise Patching , USQ, is speaking on "Using Offline Personal Devices to Enable Access...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Improve Student Retention in Australian On-line Higher education

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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...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

How Students Use Their Mobile Devices to Support Learning at an Australian Regional University

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Farley, Murphy, Johnson, Carter, Lane, Midgley, and Koronios (2015) point out that most students are already using mobile devices to supp...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

UQ Campus Sale the Start of Australian Education Rationalisation

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The University of Queensland is reported to be selling its Ipswich campus to the University of Southern Queensland (I visited the very we...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Selecting a Postgraduate Program of Study

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On Thursday I attended the Perth MBA & Postgrad Studies Expo . This had many of the same exhibitors as the Canberra Expo , I attended tw...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

Digitally Certified University Certificates

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The Australian National University now issues Certified digital documents , to graduates. Provided in electronic form  are the academic tr...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Costs and Economics of Open and Distance Learning

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Greville Rumble's " The Costs and Economics of Open and Distance Learning " (Routledge, 1997) was written in the early days ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Masters in On-line Distance Education

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Having completed the ANU Graduate Certificate in Higher Education , I thought I would look at enrolling in a Masters in Higher Education spe...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

What is Mobile Learning?

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Dr Angela Murphy , Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Digital Futures Institute , is visiting the Australian National University (ANU)...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Lessons for MOOCs from the Open University

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Recently I was browsing the shelves of the education section of the Australian Defence Force Academy Library (ADFA) in Canberra. I came acro...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

MOOCs Like Budget Airlines or Strip Mining

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In " Clay Shirky Says MOOCs Will Matter, but Worries About Corporate Players " Jeffrey R. Young writes that on-line courses will b...
Friday, July 19, 2013

On-line Tertiary Teaching for Research-Led Education

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Greetings from the conferring ceremony at Lewellyn Hall, the Australian National University in Canberra, where I am to receive a Graduate...