More on the Educause challenges for 2009
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 19th, 2009
Back in February, this blog listed the Educause top 5 learning and teaching challenges for 2009:
Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation
Developing 21st-century literacies (information, digital, and visual) among students and faculty
Reaching and engaging today’s learners
Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT
Advancing innovation in [...]
Reminder: enrol for Bradley, Cutler and Budget workshop tomorrow!
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 10th, 2009
Higher Education Reviews and News: Bradley, Cutler, the Budget and us!
Thursday 11th June 2009, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, E6A 116
Venturous Australia (the Cutler Report) and the Review of Higher Education (Bradley Report) were released in late 2008, with the Government responding to some of the recommendations (via speeches by the Ministers concerned) in March [...]
MQ’s 2009 Innovation awards
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on May 28th, 2009
Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 Macquarie University Innovation Awards!
In particular, the recipients of the Innovation in Teaching and Learning award for:
Termfinder - Jargon-busting and Concept-building an online Learning Tool for Beginners in Science and Social Science
(From Macquarie University) Professor Pam Peters, Dr Claudia Oliveira; LTC’s own Dr Theresa Winchester-Seeto; Mr Adam [...]
Upcoming LTC workshops - Bradley review, Developing a research program
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on May 22nd, 2009
Click on the title of the workshop to visit the registration page!
Research Workshops - Developing a research program - Tue 2 June, 10am-12pm
If you are an early career researcher, this workshop is for you! In the competitive international research market, it is not enough to write a single paper a year. To ensure that you [...]
Budget 2009 and higher education
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on May 13th, 2009
With the Federal Budget 2009, the government has outlined its response to the Bradley and Cutler reviews. Here’s how the Education Overview - subtitled Universities, Innovation and Education Revolution sums it up:
uncapped demand‑driven university system from 2012 - “students in, politicians out”- an additional 50 000 new students by 2013, 40% of 25-34 year olds [...]
MQ 2009 Innovation awards - entries close March 11
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 27th, 2009
Don’t miss your chance to win one of nine awards which recognise and reward outstanding performance and excellence in innovation. Open to all staff and postgraduate research students at Macquarie, you have the chance to win cash prizes up to the value of $3,000.
Entries close Wednesday 11 March, 2009.
Visit the Innovation Awards website for more [...]
Top 5 teaching and learning challenges for 2009
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 17th, 2009
Educause have used a wiki to identify the top teaching and learning challenges for 2009. The final list, ranked by popularity, includes:
Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation.
Developing 21st-century literacies among students and faculty (information, digital, and visual).
Reaching and engaging today’s learner.
Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in [...]
Next steps for the Bradley Review
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 13th, 2009
In December last year, this blog posted on the release of the Bradley report and the media commentary around it, but where to from here? Over the next few weeks, Julia Gillard is hosting roundtable discussions to provide an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recommendations in the report.
To briefly recap, these recommendations include [...]
Social Networking and Digital Mapping
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 5th, 2009
This week is Social Networking and Digital Mapping theme week at In Media Res.
In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response … Our goal is to promote an online [...]
Teaching Resources from EFS
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on November 26th, 2008
The Learning and Teaching unit of Economic and Financial Studies, in collaboration with the LTC, is bringing out a series of guides to various aspects of university teaching and pedagogical research.
The first two guides are hot off the press!
HOW TO LEAD DISCUSSIONS - Learning Through Engagament is a guide to some of the best techniques [...]