It is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a need for higher education institutions to support their staff in the development of course offerings that are either online or have Information and Communication ...

In the context of pressure to increase retention rates a wide variety of alternative educational programs has developed in Australia over the past few decades. The purpose of this paper is to provide a map of the alternative ...

This paper reviews the ways in which contributors to the Intemational Review of Education have discussed the role of education in social change. It asserts that education is seen as a major vector in society, but that ...

BACKGROUND Recognition and early intervention of acutely deteriorating patients is often the responsible of medical -surgical nurses. This study examined the effect of simulation on medical â¿¿ surgical nursing graduatesâ¿¿ ...

This study focused on a population of female engineering students, probing the influences of their secondary school experience on their choice to pursue an engineering course of study at university. The motivating question ...

The imperative for education sustainable development (ESD) is surely stronger than at any point in the intertwined history of humans and the planet (Fien, 2004; Reynolds, 2009; UNESCO, 2004), given rising populations and ...

Communities (including online communities) appear to provide powerful contexts for the professional development of teachers. Yet, despite the apparent educational potency of groups, professional development research has ...

This article presents findings from part of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council project regarding Australian dual degrees. Employers from 30 engineering-focused organisations were interviewed to solicit their views ...

e-Learning has been frequently heralded as a transforming influence on global education and corporate training. Despite such rhetoric,the adoption, diffusion and exploitation of e-learning by educational institutions ...

If one takes three individuals and interviews them with respect to life changing experiences and how they relate to education what would one expect to find? Certainly these people would speak about moments of educational ...