Edited by the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology

Kaye Bowman

By the author

This report looks at the use of e-learning champions as a change management strategy and outlines common activities and guidelines adopted by e-learning champions to successfully facilitate the uptake of e-learning within their organisation

This report considers how technology (e-learning) can assist effective teaching, learning, reporting and assessment processes for employability skills

Through five regional case studies this research examines how well VET is tailoring supply to skill needs, how VET has become more flexible to obtain a better match between demand and supply, and whether partnerships have been linked to whole-of-government frameworks in ways which
support sustainable regional development

This report explores current and emerging models of employment-based training to propose more effective models at higher VET qualifications that can maintain a balance between institution and work-based learning

This report documents a study of the role and use of e-learning in training for mature age workers, and to identify good practice in Australia

This report documents a study of the role and use of e-learning in training for mature age workers, and to identify good practice in Australia

This study provides a portrait of the current situation in Australia in the
role and use of e-learning in training for mature age workers, and to identify good practice

This study provides a portrait of the current situation in Australia in the
role and use of e-learning in training for mature age workers, and to identify good practice

Ann Blythe and Kaye Bowman synthesise recent research on the value that employers place on qualifications and how they use them to contribute to the success of their business

Many older Australians are up-skilling or retraining to maintain gainful employment or pursue other interests

Noticeboard

16 March 2010

Australian citizens are being asked to provide input into a nation-wide
discussion about how to improve the rules governing our country.

Rethink Australia spokesperson Rodger Hills, says the time has come to
review the way Australia is run. “As citizens, we have a responsibility to
plan for a brighter future and a more enlightened democratic process than
the one we have inherited from our fore bearers.”

Rethink Australia has released a public discussion paper today to provide
the basis for dialogue and deliberation amongst members of the public over

12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

16 February 2010

RMIT University in Melbourne runs a degree program where groups of
communication research‐trained students work on a communication research
project for a not‐for‐profit client.