This report gives an overview of the literature published between 2004 and 2013 relating to government and sector-level tertiary e-learning initiatives in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Key findings The key findings of this annotated bibliography are: New Zealand established the e-Collaborative Development Fund (e-CDF) in 2003. The e-CDF...

This report presents a framework to help organize and drive discussions about the evolving scholarly record. The framework provides a high-level view of the categories of material the scholarly record potentially encompasses, as well as the key stakeholder roles associated with the creation, management, and use of the scholarly record. Key highlights: A confluence of...

Advanced healthcare systems are moving toward greater efficiency, transparency and accountability, and this trend will continue, particularly in fiscally-constrained environments There is no single measure that will improve service delivery and patient outcomes, ensure financial sustainability and increase accountability and transparency in a health system Performance reporting in healthcare will work if properly developed and...

Australia’s 2011 National Health Reform Agreement set out the intention of the Australian Government and state and territory governments to work in partnership to improve patient access to services, public hospital efficiency and system transparency by moving toward activity-based funding and away from block funding.

Summary: The issue of ballistic missile defence (BMD) was a controversial one when US President Reagan first advocated a strategic-level system in the early 1980s. It remains so today. What’s Australia’s interest? We live a long way away from most current ballistic missile arsenals. But the ADF frequently deploys within range of ballistic missile systems...