Higher Education Whisperer

Dr Fiona Scotney , ANU Greetings from Dr Fiona Scotney ’s Advanced LinkedIn Workshop at ATEM2025. A few hours ago I was in Sydney, and saw a...

Recently I have noticed more annoying messages on X/Twitter than interesting content. Not the extreme stuff reported in the media, just anno...

A few weeks ago I woke to a media report that Optus customers had no landline, or mobile services . So I sent a message to the local ABC Can...

Currently I am in Singapore for five conferences. One thing I noticed was that they are using applications like Swapcard , for delegates. Th...

Next week, I am talking to the ANU computer project students about using social media for your career. Some thoughts. Suggestions, correctio...

Some time ago, one of my colleagues suggested I join ResearchGate , describing it as "social media for researchers". I was skeptic...

Greetings from the ANU Climate Change Institute in Canberra, where journalist Katharine Murphy is speaking on politics and climate change...

Greetings from the ANU Grand Challenges pitch night in Canberra.  Four teams are presenting their ideas. One will receive funding. The thir...

In " Teaching Crowds: Learning & Social Media " ...

Posso (2016) in a study of Australian adolescent school students concludes that online social networks reduce their maths results, whereas ...

Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where I am taking part in a workshop on " Science in Climate Change Medi...

Greetings from the famous room N101 at the Australian National University in Canberra, where Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor is speaking on ...

Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where ABC science journalist Robyn Williams is telling scientists how to c...

Greetings from the second day of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Education (ICCSE 2014) in Vancouver. Binyue...

Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where Professor Geremie R Barmé , Director, of the Australian Centre o...

Athabasca University (AU) have an introductory course for new students, before starting their first regular course. This provides an overvi...

The recording of my webinar " MOOCs with Books: Technology Plus Traditional Teaching for an On-line Education Revolution " is now ...

Rob Ackland will speak on " Some approaches for social scientific research using Twitter " in the CSIRO seminar room at the Aus...

Recently I was asked if there were any jobs available in higher education at ANU. So I looked at the Current Vacancies at The Australian Na...

I will be speaking on " MOOCs with Books: Technology Plus Traditional Teaching for an On-line Education Revolution " in a webinar ...