New Research

The role of simulations in the authentic learning for national security policy development

24 May 2012This report provides examples of practice that illustrate the use of authentic learning and simulations in post-graduate and on-campus learning environments, especially when applied to national security policy education.

Eating disorder features in indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian peoples

22 May 2012Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are well known to have higher risk for a range of disorders related to poor nutrition, namely a diet high in refined carbohydrates and saturated fats.

A best practice review of the role of schools forums

21 May 2012Schools forums have a consultative and advisory role in school funding and financial matters and have been a statutory requirement in every local authority in England since 2003. 

Empowering independent media: Second edition 2012

Empowering independent media: Second edition 2012

18 May 2012Media development entails various activities aimed at strengthening the media to be independent, pluralistic, and professional.

"Teaching…I can see myself not doing that forever": The beginning teacher experience

17 May 2012Data suggests beginning teachers in the Western world, having invested their time, finances and effort into their University education, resign from their chosen profession within three to five years at a rate of 25% to 40%.

The anatomy of a data citation: discovery, reuse, and credit

17 May 2012Data citation should be a necessary corollary of data publication and reuse, yet many researchers are reluctant to share their data until reward structures such as data citation, are more widespread.

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Education policy

Partnerships between schools and the professional arts sector: evaluation of impact on student outcomes

16 May 2012This two part report considers the impact of school-arts partnerships on student engagement, student voice, social learning, creative skills and arts-related knowledge and skills.

Vocational education and training

Online k-12 schooling in the U.S.: uncertain private ventures in need of public regulation

10 May 2012Over just the past decade, online learning at the K-12 level has grown from a novelty to a movement in the US, yet little or no research is yet available on the outcomes of such full-time virtual schooling.

Workforce skills development and engagement in training through skill sets

10 May 2012The utilisation of Australian vocational education and training (VET), specifically, the origin of skill sets and the key features of the two available types of skill sets are the topics covered by this literature review.

Schools workforce

04 May 2012Australia's future will depend on how well it develops the ‘human capital’ of its population.

Commentary

Troves of personal data, forbidden to researchers

24 May 2012When scientists publish their research, they also make the underlying data available so the results can be verified by other scientists writes John Markoff for the New York Times.

ICT – across the curriculum or not?

23 May 2012ICT in education has been well embedded in the curriculum for over a decade now, writes Gerry White in DERN.

Evaluating the impact of school-arts partnerships

16 May 2012Partnerships between schools and the professional arts sector have been found to play an important role in deepening students' engagement with learning.

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Topic Guides

NBN: guide for consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

21 March 2012Developed by the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and now updated for 2012, this guide is designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

Choice and values in schooling

  • Public Policy Institute - Australian Catholic University

12 December 2011School choice has been a divisive issue in education policy for a long time, often the subject of heated debate based more on ideology than evidence.

Parental contributions

  • Public Policy Institute - Australian Catholic University

12 December 2011Providing incentives for parents to pay for schooling is good public policy.

Audio

Contenders cum laude: Universities competing in the global rankings game

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21 May 2012What does the increasingly influential phenomenon of global ranking of universities mean for students, governments, researchers, and the business of running institutions of higher learning?

Explosion in free online classes may change course of higher education

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10 May 2012Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are teaming up in a $60 million venture to provide classes online for free. The move is the latest by top universities to expand their intellectual reach through the Internet — a trend that is changing higher education.

Schools

Video

The next mobile media trends for Australia

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14 May 2012Social, mobile and locative media are collapsing into one and gaming is now the best mode for storytelling.

Nobel winner's press conference at Parliament House

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13 October 2011ANU Professor Brian Schmidt gives a press conference at Canberra's Parliament House to discuss receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics. He is introduced by ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young.

Higher education

Open access publishing practices in a complex environment: conditions, barriers, and bases of power

17 May 2012The system of scholarly communication is a complex environment made up of various stakeholders including not only researchers, librarians, and publishers, but also academic administrators.

Websites

Directory of Open Access Books

13 April 2012A discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. 

Primezone

05 March 2012Primezone provides teachers with single-point access to a range of primary industries education resources. This website is an initiative of the Primary Industries Education Foundation.

Paradisec: Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures

26 October 2011The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures offers a facility for digital conservation and access to endangered materials from all over the world. Our research group has developed models to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities and conforms to emerging international standards for digital archiving. A primary motivation for this project is making field recordings available to those recorded and their descendants.

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Books

Cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone

Cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone

  • Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson
  • Routledge
The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation.
Cultures and globalization cities, cultural policy and governance

Cultures and globalization cities, cultural policy and governance

  • Helmut K Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar
  • SAGE
Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance examines how governance and cultural policy play out in a national and international framework, and covers issues that fully comprehend a city's cultural dynamics and its impact on policy including alternative economies, creativity, migration, diversity, sustainability, education and urban planning.

Noticeboard

Australian Community Sector Survey
03 May 2012

Strengthen our voice - take part in the Australian Community Sector Survey

There's just under two weeks to go for Victoria's community sector organisations to help us provide an authentic snapshot of the state of demand for services in the state.

Women's Health Victoria survey now open
08 March 2012

Women's Health Victoria (WHV) is a statewide women's health promotion, information and advocacy organisation, working with policy makers and health professionals to influence and inform health policy and service delivery.

The online survey is open to anyone who has used WHV's services, resources, or websites in the past 12 months. It covers: WHV publications, professional training, The Index database of gendered statistics, WHV Clearinghouse, BreaCan Service (supporting people diagnosed with breast or gynaecological cancer), capacity building, member services, and more.

Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (the ACNC) starting in July 2012
07 March 2012

In May 2011 the Federal Government announced that the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) would commence operations from 1 July 2012 and that it would initially be responsible for determining the legal status of groups seeking charitable, public benevolent institution, and other not-for-profit (NFP) benefits on behalf of all Commonwealth agencies. 

Topic Guides

NBN: guide for consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

21 March 2012Developed by the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and now updated for 2012, this guide is designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

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