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The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, announced arrangements for payment of the one-off $950 Training and Learning Bonus payment to eligible postgraduate scholarship students. The one-off $950 Training and Learning Bonus is being extended to help certain postgraduate scholarship recipients under an administrative scheme, in addition to current student income support recipients and recipients of other income support payments returning to study or training who are already being paid the bonus. DEEWR Media release, 24 April 2009

The iPod touch. The iPhone. Mobile devices your students use in every part of their lives to stay connected with friends, the music they love and know, their learning. Producing content, or repurposing existing material ready for distribution via podcast or through your university’s instance of iTunes U is straightforward, giving your students ready access to their lectures, tutorials and practical sessions, wherever they are. The Apple Mobile Learning seminar series will show you how.

A visit to the virtual campus of Greenville, NC-based East Carolina University makes it clear that this is a working campus – walls displaying dozens of renderings and peer review instructions, graphics explaining management principles, and a career services center that leads job seekers to Web pages about improving resumes, long-distance job searching, and stress-free interviewing. ‘This semester, we are teaching 10 courses in Second Life,’ said Sharon Collins, project manager for Academic Outreach Technology Services.
Campus Technology, 22 April 2009

The University of Queensland is taking its award-winning international studies program to the world thanks to a new e-learning course. Conceptions of World Politics is taught by Professor Roland Bleiker from the School of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), and is the first of three new courses offered as part of the Universitas 21 Global Issues Program. UQ News, 23 April 2009