Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Undergraduate Certificates to be Added to AQF

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The Australian Government announced funding for short online university programs, in response to the COVID-19 Coronavirus , on 12 April 2...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Australian Higher Education Relief Package for COVID-19

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The Hon Dan Tehan MP Minister for Education The Australian Minister for Education, Dan Tehan , and the M...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

K12 EdTech Showcase

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

Work Integrated Learning in the Age of COVID-19

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

Use Recorded Videos and Small Online Tutorials

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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...

University Researchers Need to Implement COVID19 Measures NOW

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

COVID-19 Infection Control Training Online from Australian Government

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The Australian Department of Health is providing COVID-19 Infection Control Training online for healthcare and related workers.  The modul...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Free Online Teaching Course Starting 20 March

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Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes , Instructor Athabasca University (Canada), is offering a free five-week online course Learning to Learn On...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Transition to On-line Study: Example message to team project students

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The Australian National University is to pause all coursework teaching for one week from Monday 23 March and then deliver online for the r...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

All educators must offer e-learning now

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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...

E-learning for Schools Pitch

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Last week I attended a Service Design Meetup at the Canberra Innovation Network , sponsored by Evolve & Amplify. We went through the ...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Designing in an On-line Learning Option

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One of the benefits of computers in education is that this makes distance education a richer experience and feasible for more students....
Friday, March 13, 2020

The Idea of the University Has Not Been Canceled

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

Don't Postpone Examinations: Replace Them With Realistic Tests

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Media reports indicate that some universities are postponing examinations due to the about the COVID-19 Coronavirus . Unfortunately this e...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON-LINE

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Poster generated using Keep Calms . Since the COVID-19 Coronavirus started causing difficulties for Australian education a few weeks ag...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Online Courses on Coronavirus from World Health Organization

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The World Health Organization has released a series of web based courses about the COVID-19 Coronavirus . These are intended for  health p...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Conference Organizers Need to Plan for Infectious Disease Outbreak

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Tom Worthington speaking at NITC 2018 Those organizing international conferences in the next few months need to have a blended, or full...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Australian Government Guide for Online Education into China

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A short Guide for delivery of online education into China has been released by the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (17 February ...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Educators Need to Plan for Infectious Disease Outbreak

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This is to suggest educational institutions revise, or create, their Infectious Disease Outbreak Response Plan, now . Australian universitie...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

Online Teaching is Here Now

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