Higher Education Whisperer

Stop Error on a Screen at Coles Leichardt, 26 July 2024. Photo by Tom Worthington CC-BY My phone started ringing on Friday afternoon. First...

T om Worthington with the Telstra Tower in the distance. Picture by Gary Ramage,  Canberra Times, published 25 March 2024. Reproduced by per...

Daniel Aldrich Greetings from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, where Daniel Aldrich  is speaking on " Modest but critical: how ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet and there are other foreseeable challenges as great in the near future, so perhaps it is time for uni...

Greeting from the Virtual Hackathon on Fighting Pandemics . This is organized by the Australian National University Humanitarian Innovati...

The Australian National University’s Humanitarian Innovation Society ( ANU HISoc ), along with the Clinton Global Initiative University ...

The Australian Computer Society is running a Flatten the Curve hackathon , to develop prototypes in 48 hours to counter the   COVID-19 Co...

Most educational institutions had to scramble to convert courses for online delivery due to the  COVID-19 Coronavirus . Those educational...

To those working hard to move courses online, due to the  COVID-19 Coronavirus , remember there is no need to replace every lecture with a...

I spent much of the week in Zoom based video conferences, only one of which did not work. This is remarkable, given how heavily Zoom is be...

Today was my third video conference for the week, Reading the Corona: extraordinary responses during an extraordinary time , hosted by t...

Greetings from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, where I just took part in the inaugural Virtual Morning Tea (VMT), f...