New Research

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.

STEM and non-STEM first year students

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.

The status and quality of year 11 and 12 science in Australian schools

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.

Designing for learning: online social networks as a classroom environment

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.

eResearch Australasia 2011 Conference papers

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.

The end of isolation

28 November 2011This research study provides new insight into how teachers use social networking sites, such as Twitter, as professional learning networks.

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Education policy

Teaching with social media in classroom settings: Top ten practices from teachers around Europe

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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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

Digital learning

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

Culture wars at CSIRO

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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.

Schools

Early childhood, education and training; justice; emergency management

08 February 2012Volume one of the report focuses on early childhood, education and training as well as justice and emergency management sectors.

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.

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.

Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robyn Williams

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29 March 2010Dawkins and Williams discuss the intricacies, the fascinating patterns and the anomalies produced by the process of evolution on earth.

Higher education

Mapping Australian higher education

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

Websites

Datacite

15 September 2011 DataCite helps researchers to find, access, and reuse data

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

21 June 2011The UIS has redesigned its website in English and French to better serve the needs of its users.

Older and online

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.

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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

Online conservation game wins communicator awards
17 June 2009

Mission H2o, an online game themed around water conservation and developed by Swinburne University students and staff, has received two prestigious design awards.

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.

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