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.
20 January 2012This report highlights Australian students' growing lack of appreciation of the relevance and role of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in their lives and their potential for rewarding career opportunities.
23 December 2011The purpose of the study outlined in this report is to develop a clear understanding of Year 11 and 12 science in Australian schools and the potential issues involved.
02 December 2011This paper deploys notions of emergence, connections, and designs for learning to conceptualize high school students’ interactions when using online social media as a learning environment.
30 November 2011eResearch Australasia is a conference that brings together practitioners and researchers to share ideas and exemplars on new information centric research capabilities. PDF papers from the conference held in November 2011 are now available online.
28 November 2011This research study provides new insight into how teachers use social networking sites, such as Twitter, as professional learning networks.
05 February 2012The “Teachers’ competition for social media use in formal language learning contexts” was created within the framework of the EU-funded network “Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues”.
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.
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.
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.
02 December 2011Social networking enabled interaction is helping to diversify students' networks, opening up new possibilities for learning, discusses Gerry White on DERN.
16 September 2011Technology enhanced learning has failed but there is still a role for technology to create personal learning spaces writes Gerry White in this research review on DERN.
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.
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.
14 September 2010When scientists - who believe passionately in independence, in pure research, and in sharing information - are asked to conform to business plans and commercial-in-confidence clauses, there are bound to be tensions.
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.
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.
20 September 2010This collection of video presentations from a March forum in Launceston discuss the latest research on social networking for older adults, learning online through U3A, and the latest advances in e-health.
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.
Mission H2o, an online game themed around water conservation and developed by Swinburne University students and staff, has received two prestigious design awards.
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.
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.
Research review: Self-directed learning
16 September 2011Technology enhanced learning has failed but there is still a role for technology to create personal learning spaces writes Gerry White in this research review on DERN.
China's higher education revolution
25 July 2011The implications of the changes in the way China educates its people are far-reaching says Philipp Ivanov.