Like so many other western countries, increasing productivity and participation are central drivers of national reforms in Australia. Set against stories of a future of doom and gloom (led by an aging society) interventions ...

Collaborative systems, in particular workspaces and groupware, are used to support distributed team members. However, groupware or workspaces require users to adapt the tool to their work practices to support ...

Environmental education is an important strategy in achieving environmental improvement. Previously, we have analysed school children's conceptions of "environment" using a phenomenographic approach. An important qualitative ...

A school-based numeracy initiative, conducted in one NSW metropolitan primary school, trialled an innovative approach to improving mathematics for low achievers. The project involved 683 low-achieving students aged from ...

The Telecollaboration (TC) business system, an important class of emerging applications that is spawning new challenges to achieving the desired levels of performance. One important implication in identifying and ...

Reforms to Australia's skilled migration policy since 1999 have led to a marked increase in the proportion of the skilled migration intake coming from former international students, in particular from students graduating ...

This paper examines the concept of the worker as learner and particularly the role of peer learning (Boud et al, 2001) as a means of developing a culture of learning in the workplace. The authors are involved in an ongoing ...

Research suggests that pre-service teachers' beliefs about mathematics and mathematics teaching are a strong indicator of their future teaching practice. In this interview study, 16 pre-service secondary teachers were ...

While most studies on learning communities have focused on rural or remote regional areas, this paper outlines recent research focussed on learning communities in urban areas’. The study was undertaken by the Research ...

Now that the educational significance of learning communities is increasingly well recognised and means are available to make interactions possible electronically, on large scales, there are growing opportunities ...