This presentation reports on a study of international student welfare in Australia and New Zealand, utilising 300 in-depth interviews across the two countries, 270 with students and 30 with university service-providing staff and policymakers from government departments.
Archive for May, 2009
Transforming tertiary technolgies
In this interview Prof Stephen Marshall talks about a new initiative at the UNSW – Technology Enabled Learning & Teaching (TELT). Visit the site for more information. UNSW, May 2009
IMS Global Learning Consortium announces sponsors for development of the Digital Learning Connection
The IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) announced, at its annual Learning Impact conference, that several of its member organisations have committed to funding the development of a shared Web Catalogue of learning resources. The Catalogue Web Tool will enable education institutions and school districts to easily find and connect to standards-based content and learning applications through their enterprise course management system or portal. IMS Global Press release, 11 May 2009
Stanford U. experiments with open office hours on Facebook
It’s free. It’s open to anyone on Facebook. And it’s sort of like video blogging. Faculty members share their thoughts in introductory clips. They respond to questions in follow-up videos. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 May 2009