Higher Education Whisperer

Athabasca University have renamed their Master of Education in Distance Education (MEd DE) to be a Master of Education in Open, Digital and ...

Greetings from the the Australian Nation University in Canberra, where the  CASS Teaching and Learning Day , just started. The theme ...

The ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences (CASS) is holding a Teaching and Learning Day , in Canberra, 3 September 2019 from 9:00 am ...

The Australian National University College of Arts and Social Sciences is hosting two workshops for university teachers. These are by Dr...

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

A recent item in the journal Nature ( Sharples , 2016) listed  Athabasca University (AU) in Canada, as one of four institutions worldwid...

Richard Hill and Kristen Lyons wrote, " Academics are unhappy – it’s time to transform our troubled university system " (The Conve...

Recently I was asked what university education would look like in 2025. I don't think it will look much different to some of the courses...

Brandy Robinson writes about " Adjunct Hell: Getting Unstuck "( facultyclub, 2015). "Adjunct hell" has a good descriptio...

In " Stop the uni cost disease " (Online Opinion, 22 January 2015), Steven Schwartz , former VC of Macquarie University, says ...

Recently I enrolled in a postgraduate course in on-line teaching. This does not start until early 2014, so I decided to get a head-start ...

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

The UK based Higher Education Academy (HEA) runs the HEA Professional Recognition Scheme . This is intended to lift the professionalism of u...

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