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The net generation are not big users of Web 2.0 technologies: preliminary findings Open
A great deal has been written over the past few years about the characteristics of a new generation of students and the implications for teaching and learning. This generation, which has variously been referred to as the 'Net Generation', …
Immigrants and natives: investigating differences between staff and students' use of technology Open
The corollary of the 'Digital Native'---young, technologically avid and literate---is the 'Digital Immigrant'---older, less familiar and comfortable with technology. The accompanying rhetoric posits that in the higher education sector, sta…
What might learning design become in the post-COVID university? Open
In this provocation, Sue explores the field of learning design, where it has come from and how it has shaped the field. Questions of learning designer identity and roles come into play, and how this will look in the future in universities.
Introduction to the Handbook of Digital Higher Education Open
This handbook takes as its starting point the need for a holistic conceptualization of digital higher education which takes into account personal, pedagogic and organizational change. It is tempting not to offer an alternative conceptualiz…
Parents’ and Early Childhood Educators’ Perceptions on Movement and Learning Program Implementation Open
There is currently limited evidence on parents’ and early childhood educators’ perspectives on implementing programs that combine cognitive and motor tasks in early childhood. An online survey was distributed across Australia through socia…
The Choices that Connect Uncertainty and Sustainability: Student-Centred Agile Decision-Making Approaches Used by Universities in Australia and the UK during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
Given that universities have significant choices to make about what is retained from our emergency measures, the authors set out to use the record of our biweekly meetings to examine the choices that we have made during the pandemic and ho…
Leadership for Learning Frameworks Open
The purpose of this report is to present the findings of a commissioned research study by the University of Wollongong (UOW) for the NSW DoE School Leadership Institute (SLI). The study is focused on examining the conceptualisation and des…
How Do Students Adapt in Response to Academic Failure? Open
Ensuring student success has long been on the research agenda in higher education. In this study, we seek to understand if the changes students make in light of academic failure are consistent with this literature. Little is known about st…
Persisting students’ explanations of and emotional responses to academic failure Open
© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Academic failure is an important and personal event in the lives of university students, and the ways they make sense of experiences of failu…
Towards sustainable technology‐enhanced innovation in higher education: Advancing learning design by understanding and supporting teacher design practice Open
Improving teacher design promises to be a scalable, sustainable approach to building capacity amongst a workforce faced with complex and evolving drivers of change in higher education worldwide. While design has long been recognised as a r…
Identifying the characteristics of support Australian university teachers use in their design work: Implications for the learning design field Open
Quality teaching is a strategic objective for universities; thus, there is an expectation that university teachers design high quality learning experience for their students. The field of learning design has developed over the past 15 year…
Engaging ‘students as partners’ in the design and development of a peer-mentoring program Open
This presentation focussed on an innovative approach to developing peer mentoring programs. Drawing upon a ‘student as partners’ framework, the presentation explored how this has been used to underpin an approach to peer mentoring from the…
The design process of university teachers Open
This poster presents a teacher design process model. The model is empirically derived from research that investigated the design work of Australia university teachers. The dataset comprised detailed interviews from 30 teachers from 16 Aust…
The design process of university teachers:A descriptive model Open
This poster presents a teacher design process model. The model is empirically derived from research that investigated the design work of Australia university teachers. The dataset comprised detailed interviews from 30 teachers from 16 Aust…
A Virtual Community of Practice for General Practice Training: A Preimplementation Survey Open
Important factors for a GP training VCoP include the following: facilitation covering administration and expertise, the perceived usefulness of the community, focusing usefulness around knowledge sharing, and overcoming professional isolat…
Reindexing a Research Repository from the Ground up: Adding and Evaluating Quality Metadata Open
This article details the outcomes of the 'National Learning and Teaching Resource Audit and Classification' project, commissioned by the Australian Government's Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT). The project used a range of methodolog…
Investigating University Educators’ Design Thinking and the Implications for Design Support Tools Open
All university educators perform design work as they prepare and plan learning experiences for their students. How such design work is undertaken, conceptualised, and optimally supported is the focus of ongoing research for the authors. Th…
Using concept maps and goal-setting to support the development of self-regulated learning in a problem-based learning curriculum Open
Problem-based learning (PBL) in medical education focuses on preparing independent learners for continuing, self-directed, professional development beyond the classroom. Skills in self-regulated learning (SRL) are important for success in …