New Research

You be the judge - VCE Legal Studies teachers' kit

02 February 2012The kit provides the tools and knowledge teachers need to deliver engaging classes for VCE Legal Studies. It uses real case studies, with names and some details changed.

Students as learning designers: using social media to scaffold the experience

31 January 2012The ‘students as learning designers’ approach challenges transmission models of pedagogy and requires teachers to relinquish some control to their students so that they might have the space to experiment and discover how to learn.

Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution

30 January 2012Current multiparty support has created a historic opportunity to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of Australia, to affirm their full and equal citizenship, and to remove the last vestiges of racial discrimination from the Constitution.

The experience of education: The impacts of high stakes testing on school students and their families

30 January 2012This literature review was commissioned to provide context for the research project The Experience of Education: The impacts of high stakes testing on school students and their families.

Australian Research Council amendment bill 2011

30 January 2012This digest examines the Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2011.

Mapping Australian higher education

30 January 2012Australia’s higher education system is entering one of its most significant years in recent history.

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Education policy

Teachers' intentions to use national literacy and numeracy assessment data

09 January 2012Recent data-driven changes to the Australian educational policy environment has increased the expectation for school personnel to use statistical information to inform their programs and to improve teaching practices.

Vocational education and training

Indigenous language education in remote communities

Indigenous language education in remote communities

15 December 2011Focussing on the role of Indigenous languages in emergent development activity in remote Australia, this report examines the out-of-school language and literacy needs of adolescents and young adults, with a focus on the digital economy.

Hume global learning village: a creative learning community

08 December 2011Leading to the development of a 20 year strategy for learning, this paper provides a practical outline of a local government partnership with higher education in the context of a geographic learning community.

Commentary

Social networking and learning

02 December 2011Social networking enabled interaction is helping to diversify students' networks, opening up new possibilities for learning, discusses Gerry White on DERN.

Hope found in humanities

30 November 2011It's that time of the year, when a graduating student's thoughts turn to a future career. In the humanities, the old joke "Do you want fries with that?" just won't die, writes Stuart Cunningham in The Australian.

Time to accept economic known unknowns? The case for ‘pluralism’

10 November 2011People joke about economists disagreeing, but is it feasible for there to be one best analysis, one best set of predictions and one best policy asks Sheila Dow in The Conversation.

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Topic Guides

NBN: Guide for Consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

09 June 2011The Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), have developed NBN: A Guide for Consumers, 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

Communication, access and equality

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08 December 2011This program looks at number of projects aiming to improve access to communication - be it the use of telephones in East Timor or Internet access in the remote interior of Australia.

Digital learning

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14 November 2011Is digital technology changing the way we think and learn?

Schools

Video

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.

Into the ERA era. Why research in Australia will never be the same again

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20 July 2011The first Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation of disciplinary and institutional research quality in early 2011 established a comprehensive measure of research performance. The effect on institutions was immediate and electric, everywhere triggering strategies to lift ERA rankings.

Higher education

Websites

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.

Text Queensland

07 October 2011Featuring books, journals, theses and newspapers as well as government sources, this site will be useful for anyone interested in Queensland, from school and university students to researchers, family and local historians.

Jorum - a UK open learning resource but open access for everyone

27 September 2011Jorum is a JISC-funded Service in Development in UK Further and Higher Education, to collect and share learning and teaching materials, allowing their reuse and repurposing.

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Events

Workshop
Electronic Document and Records Management
14 Feb 2012 - 15 Feb 2012
Sydney
Conference
Conference: 'Is social democracy exhausted? Pathways, reflections, dilemmas'
17 Feb 2012 - 9:00am - 18 Feb 2012 - 5:30pm
Adelaide
Workshop
Leading the way in Internal Communications
21 Feb 2012 - 23 Feb 2012
Rydges, Melbourne

Books

Digital futures for cultural and media studies

Digital futures for cultural and media studies

  • John Hartley
  • Wiley-Blackwell
As they play with their digital devices and online games, children may unknowingly be making up the kind of democracy we will have tomorrow.
The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy

The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy

  • Terry Flew
  • SAGE Publications
The rise of creative industries allows new thinking in communication, media and cultural studies, media and cultural policy, the arts and also information sectors.Sparking fresh debates and creating a better understanding of culture, in relation to new media and technology.

Noticeboard

Access and equity inquiry
20 December 2011

On 18 November 2011, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator the Hon Kate Lundy, announced the establishment of an independent panel of eminent community leaders to conduct an inquiry into Australian Government services to ensure they are responsive to the needs of Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Centre for Sustainability Leadership - 2012 Fellowship Program
02 December 2011

Applications are now open for a unique training opportunity for selected individuals develop the skills, networks and knowledge needed to be effective in forging a more sustainable future.

New research to look at children with disability entering state care
15 November 2011

The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission is researching the issue of families relinquishing children with disability into state care. This follows concerns raised by the Commission’s Disability Reference Group, which indicate that families are surrendering their children because they are not given enough support to continue full-time caring.

Topic Guides

NBN: Guide for Consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

09 June 2011The Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), have developed NBN: A Guide for Consumers, designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

Topics

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