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Understanding charter schools: are for-profit schools a good idea?

14 March 2013 | This discussion paper interrogates whether for-profit operators should be allowed to operate schools under the NZ Government’s proposed partnership school programme.

Student voice in tertiary education settings: quality systems in practice

Anne Alkema | Ako Aotearoa: National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence

15 May 2013 | This report provides information for New Zealand tertiary education institutions to improve the ways they engage with students to enhance the quality of the education they provide.

Using Second Life for health professional learning: informing multidisciplinary understanding

Jennifer P. James, and others | International Journal of Modern Education Forum

30 August 2012 | This multidisciplinary project sought to introduce post graduate Midwifery, Mental Health, Medical Radiations and Chiropractic students to the work of three other disciplines and provided them with an opportunity to develop their communication and history taking skills in the virtual world of Second Life.

Ethics, big data, and analytics: a model for application

James Willis, III, John Campbell, Matthew Pistilli | EDUCAUSE Review

06 May 2013 | This report argues that the use of big data and analytics to predict student success presents unique ethical questions for higher education administrators. It suggests the Potter Box framework can help address these questions and provide a framework for action.

Digital technology and Australian teenagers: consumption, study and careers

Karen Macpherson | The Education Institute

11 June 2013 | In this report, detailed primary evidence regarding high school student use of ICT, perceptions of use of ICT at school, perceptions of ICT as a discipline, and motivations regarding career choices was generated.

Learning as a driver for change

Leone Wheeler, Shanti Wong | Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG)

12 June 2013 | This explores how learning partnerships between councils, their communities and learning organisations can help improve social outcomes, build community capability and strengthen community governance.

Using science as evidence in public policy

Kenneth Prewitt, Thomas A. Schwandt, and Miron L. Straf, Editors | National Academies Press

17 October 2012 | This US report investigates why scientific evidence is important to policy making and argues that an extensive body of research on knowledge utilisation has not led to any widely accepted explanation of what it means to use science in public policy.

Innovation in incapacity: education, technique, subject

A. J. Bartlett | Digital Culture & Education (DCE)

01 June 2013 | This essay addresses the question of change as it is expressed in debates on the introduction and use of new digital technologies in contemporary education.

Beyond the classroom: a new digital education for young Australians in the 21st century

Digital Education Advisory Group (DEAG)

31 May 2013 | This report provides recommendations and identifies key areas to enhance educational outcomes in Australian schools through the use of digital technology.

Australian vocational education and training statistics: students and courses 2012 – preliminary data

National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

05 June 2013 | For the fifth consecutive year, the number of students enrolled in the publicly funded training system in Australia increased, with 1.943 million students studying last year, up 3.3% from 2011. Student numbers increased in South Australia (15.5%), Victoria (8.2%), Australian Capital Territory (2.1%) and in New South Wales (2.0%).

The importance of poverty early in childhood

Greg J. Duncan, Katherine Magnuson | Policy Quarterly Volume 9 Number 2

13 May 2013 | Using a poverty line set at 60% of New Zealand’s median national income, nearly one in five New Zealand children (19%) was poor in 2011, far lower than in 2004 before social policies were enacted which focused, in part, on the country’s child poverty problem.

Assuring quality while reducing the higher education regulatory burden

Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIICCSRTE)

29 May 2013 | Universities have called for a review of higher education regulation. In response to this the Government has announced a review to address the concerns being raised and identify what further action is needed.

Placing the arts at the heart of the creative campus

Alan S. Brown, Steven J. Tepper | Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP)

30 December 2012 | Examining the outcomes of a US funded program to encourage artists to work collaboratively and with students of other disciplines in universities, this paper raises the question about what might be next as artists and arts presenters explore and expand their role on campuses and in communities.

Digital curation bibliography: preservation and stewardship of scholarly works

Charles W. Bailey | Digital Scholarship

18 March 2013 | This publication presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation, and there is also a supplement for 2012.

A further investigation into 3D printing and 3D scanning at the Dalhousie University Libraries

Michael Groenendyk | Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)

26 April 2013 | This study explores methods of building and cataloging collections of 3D models for libraries.

Commentary

Killing the enterprise

Fatima Measham | This is Complicated

15 May 2013 | I can’t think of anything that strikes more savagely at the heart of the education enterprise than NAPLAN and the publication of results on the MySchool website

Learning analytics

Gerald White | Digital Education Research Network (DERN)

23 May 2013 | While learning analytics is becoming very accurate in predicting student success, there are issues in collecting and analysing large data sets of student information.

Cut university red tape with online research bank

Gavin Moodie | The Conversation

30 May 2013 | The average Australian university is spending nearly A$1 million every year meeting just part of one department’s reporting requirements.

Topic Guides

A guide to open educational resources

JISC

27 March 2013 | This guide explains open educational resources (OER) and the benefits that creating, sharing and using OER can provide.Open educational resources (OER) are learning and teaching materials, freely available online for anyone to use. Examples include full courses, course modules, lectures, games, teaching materials and assignments. They can take the form of text, images, audio, video and may even be interactive.

ACCAN NBN: a guide for consumers

Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) & Internet Society Australia

21 March 2012 | Developed 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 2011 | School 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.

Videos

Carey Lyon: public lecture

Carey Lyon | Design Research Institute (DRI)

21 January 2013 | Carey Lyon discusses how the urban environment can be used to create diverse spaces for both learning and research activities within the concept of a ‘vertical campus’ which aims to position students at the centre of the learning experience.

Universities, challenged

Margaret Gardner | The Wheeler Centre

What do we expect from a 21st-century university? Which ideals have survived the transition to our brave new education world? And what does it mean when students become customers?

Niva Elkin-Koren on fair use for education: taking best practices to the next level

Niva Elkin-Koren | Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University

In this talk, Niva Elkin-Koren — former dean of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the founding director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT) — shares some insights based on the building of a coalition of higher education institutions in Israel and drafting a code of fair use best practices.

Audio

Future of creative arts education in Australian universities

David Williamson | Big Ideas, ABC Radio National

05 March 2013 | Australian playwright David Williamson says that short-sighted assault by both sides of the political divide threatens creative arts education in Australia.

'Right person for the job' The relevance of qualifications to employment

Australian Bureau of Statistics

05 October 2012 | This article features in Episode 7 of the Australian Social Trends Podcast series.

What is quality teaching?

John Minns | Australian National University

17 August 2012 | Recent public debate about educational quality and standards raises questions about which teaching styles are most effective in supporting student learning. Of all forms of teaching, the lecture is the most traditional. It also has the potential to be the most tedious experience for students.

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