Conference paper
Gamifying adult literacy learning with apps: reflections on the ‘state-of-the-art’ to the ‘state-of-the-actual’
The purpose of this paper and session is fourfold. Firstly, we outline an enduring educational and social problem, poor levels of literacy amongst some adults, including students in higher education, and a potential innovative solution – the gamification of literacy learning. The problem of literacy development in higher education is often subsumed under study skills...
Conference paper
Internet aggregators: the impact of the classifiers on open communication
The Net Neutrality debate in the United States has ramifications for all countries interested in how the Internet is structured as an 'open space'. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) developed in 2005 general principles governing access to the Internet, given the potential of ISP and broadband carriers to potentially restrict or control traffic for...
Working paper
A 21st century solution to skill shortages in Australia
This paper argues for specific, major, institutional reforms capable of building a high-skilled internationally competitive labour force in Australia.
Working paper
Locked-in casual employment
This paper provides an up-to-date examination of the hypothesis that under certain circumstances casual workers can become trapped into a work history of repetitive casual jobs with little chance of escape.
Working paper
Dynamic tracking of the Employment Vulnerability Index against Centrelink labour market payments data
This paper explains and demonstrates the new tools that CofFEE has developed to map the EVI assessments against the claims for unemployment benefits from Centrelink.