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  • Mathematics for Engineering Education: What Students Say 
    Coupland Mary; Gardner Anne; Carmody Georgina (Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2008)
  • Narrated Visual Answers to FAQs: leveraging student learning and academic productivity with accessible technology 
    Willey Keith; Freeman Mark (School of Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Auckalnd, New Zealand, 2006)
    Teaching larger, more diverse classes is an increasing challenge as globalisation increases and public funding of higher education contracts. Feedback and reflection are important components in improving the learning ...
  • One semester of physics: What difference does it make to non-physics majors? 
    Kirkup Leslie; Mendez Alberto; Sharma Manju; O'Byrne John (Australian Institute of Physics, 2008)
    How does a semester of physics impact on students who will go on to major in disciplines other than physics, and to what extent do their experiences depend, if at all, on whether the subject has been designed specifically ...
  • Online projects: what's so remarkable?- students' experiences of an online project in NSW schools 
    Harriman Susan (Australian Council for Computers in Education, 2004)
    Connection to the Internet is a major priority for NSW government schools, with the expectation that students will increasingly participate in online teaming activities. 'Online projects' have emerged as a new learning ...
  • Online Teaching of large Groups in Information Technology: a survey of strategies 
    Zmijewska Agnieszka; Lawrence Elaine; Culjak Gordana; Prior Julia (IADIS Press, 2006)
    This study addresses the problem of increased class sizes in Information Technology courses at universities. Our project aims to examine various strategies for improving effectiveness of teaching IT to large student ...
  • A Perception of Next Generation E-Learning in Australia 
    Kadi, A.; Braun, R. M; Mahadevan, V. (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2002)
    E-Learning has been viewed as technology enhanced and delivered learning in Australia for many years. By extracting the best of the traditional classroom experience and technological infrastructure we could lead to an ...
  • Persephone's Paradox: The Author's Journey into the Underworld 
    Skilbeck Ruth (Women in Research, Central Queensland University, 2005)
    In the most fundamental of Freud's discoveries, it has been argued, there exists a large part of the psyche which is not under the direct conscious control of the individual. In referring to this as 'the unconscious', ...
  • A Personalized e-Learning material Recommender System 
    Lu Jie (Macquarie Scientific Publishing, 2004)
    E-learning environments are mainly based on a range of delivery and interactive services. Web-based personalized learning recommender systems can, as a kind of services in e-learning environment, provide learning ...
  • Physics Graduates in the Workforce: Does Physics Education Help? 
    O'Byrne John; Mendez Alberto; Sharma Manju; Kirkup Leslie; Scott Dale (Australian Institute of Physics, 2008)
    In the first half of 2008 a survey was distributed to a sample of Australian physics graduates. The main purpose was to provide a realistic and up-to date view of where a Physics degree can lead, based on the experiences ...
  • Pre-Service teachers' perceptions of LAMS as a teaching tool. 
    Kearney Matthew; Young Kirsty (Centre for Educational Development, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2007)
    This paper reports on one component of a recent study which examined pre-service teachers’ use of the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) to facilitate their professional learning. Over a period of two semesters, ...
  • Process or product; Death by OHP or death by groupwork in vocational education 
    Russell Peter (Australian Academic Press, 2001)
    The paper examines the validity of collaborative learning and facilitation approaches in vocational training. For technical training in particular, the use of teaching methods that value learning process outcomes over ...
  • Professional development of teacher educators: the eChange Project example 
    Schuck Sandra (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2002)
    The paper describes a professional development project which has the aim of promoting and supporting pedagogically sound use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in a faculty of education in a university. ...
  • Reconceptualising schooling for a Web 2.0 generation 
    Schuck Sandra; Aubusson Peter (University of the Fraser Valley Press, 2009)
    This paper frames and theorises the nature of adolescents¿ informal experiences in Web 2.0 environments to articulate their fit or misfit with current conceptions of school education. Adolescents are increasingly active ...
  • Reflections on pedagogy: Understanding adult learners' experiences of weblogs 
    Bartlett-Bragg Anne (BlogTalk, 2006)
    This paper presents initial results from my PhD study that investigated the variation in adult learners' experiences of developing personalised, collective learning networks using weblog technologies. A pedagogical ...
  • The relevance of university degrees for developing work-ready Information Technology graduates 
    Vilapakkam Nagarajan Srivalli; Edwards Jennifer (HERDSA, 2009)
  • A Remote Water-Level Rig Laboratory for e-Learning 
    Mcintyre Duncan; Lasky Vladimir; Liu Dikai; Murray Stephen (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc (IEEE), 2006)
    Remote Laboratories can provide significant advantages for universities and students alike. The flexibility provided allows teaching staff to incorporate additional practical components in their courses. It also allows ...
  • Reputation Management as Relationship Management 
    De Carvalho Rosa (University of Sydney, 2004)
    This paper investigates the concept of corporate reputation and corporate image. Corporate image is the product of the experiences of a product or service and the messages sent by an organisation, while corporate reputation ...
  • The research-teaching nexus as a driver for science communication skills enhancement 
    Bonfiglioli Catriona; Kirkup Leslie; Woolf Ian (The University of Sydney, 2009)
    Scientists- ability to communicate effectively is vital to their employment prospects, their contribution to society and to society¿s reception of science. Our goals were to develop students¿ communication skills and to ...
  • Responsive evaluation of a musical play for pre-schoolers 
    De Vries Peter; Poston-Anderson Barbara (Australian Association for Research in Music Education, 2002)
    This paper focuses on a musical play, entitled The Peter Piper Pickled Pepper Mystery, written by a drama educator and music educator for pre-school children. The paper provides the rationale for the play's development, ...
  • Self and Peer Assessment: A Necessary Ingredient in Developing and Tracking Students' Graduate Attributes 
    Willey Keith; Gardner Anne (University of Melbourne School of Engineering, 2009)
    Recently there has been a shift to focus on assessing students¿ learning outcomes in terms of graduate attributes which they should develop and demonstrate during the course of their degree. A number of universities have ...