... writing) which can act as a guide to other higher education universities looking at undertaking online learning. Kathy Michael can be contacted at: Kathy.michael@vu.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Online learning Elluminate Live! Accounting Australia Education Learning...

.... Located in Melbourne, Australia, Swinburne University of Technology was one of the first universities outside of the USA to launch its iTunes U site. The university has 35,000 students enrolled into both Higher Education and Vocational Learning, and offers a diverse range of courses from the sciences...

... role is vital and assessment tasks – both formative and summative – are even more important in ePortfolio development. ePortfolios Employability Curriculum vitae Professional education Students Australia This paper reports on the increasing use of ePortfolios in the Australian Higher...

...Keith Kirkwood Purpose This paper aims to introduce an enterprise‐wide Web 2.0 learning support platform – SNAP, developed at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. Design/methodology/approach Pointing to the evolution of the social web, the paper discusses the potential...

... of change initiatives to scale‐up assessment of experiential learning at the University of South Australia is described. These initiatives are explored in the wider context of change management in HE. Findings Assessment of experiential learning is at a tipping point where it needs to transition from...

... research assessment exercises, which favour bibliometrics, such as citation counts and impact factors, over peer review. The purpose of this paper is to contextualise the discussion by describing the nascent qualitative research assessment in Australia and its implications for small conferences. It also...

... isolated areas such as Perth and Tasmania warrants further investigation. Practical implications The Australian educational software industry produces extremely flexible products with excellent support that are worthy of consideration by international customers. Policy makers in Australia are alerted...

...‐case study methodology was used in researching groups of five teachers in Australia and four teachers in the UK. The two groups independently participated in an initial face‐to‐face training day and then completed the professional development course via an online learning environment (Blackboard...

... computer laboratories at a regional university in Australia. Findings The study found that computers within easy access to doors are disproportionately more used than computer that are further away, irrespective of other “incentive” such as windows, wall anchoring or security camera positioning...

... investigation. Originality/value The paper reviews an emerging community of practice and provides reflections on the experience of moving from interactions that were purely face‐to‐face to a distributed and virtual community environment. Communication technologies Communities Universities Australia...

... to be considered when providing services. Design/methodology/approach To assess this, the paper considers the diurnal nature of general internet usage in Australia, addresses the daily average internet use at various Australian universities, and considers how much the usage profile says about the student...

... resources available at many universities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Computers User studies Resource management Australia The research reported in this paper investigates the utilisation of the computer facilities provided at the three main campuses of Charles Sturt...

... in Australia. Global and local trends are changing the nature of work and with that, the needs for education and training in the twenty‐first century. It appears that we may be moving towards an “information economy” in which new knowledge‐based industries will emerge. The “knowledge worker” will be required...

... (in Australia, this is known as the vocational education and training (VET) sector), the view that the market is an ideal mechanism for the delivery of educational products to consumers was further enhanced. This is because courses that are delivered through the VET system have become highly standardised after...

... in accessing e‐mail and second that male students tend not to be as frequent users of e‐mail compared to their female counterparts. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Students Electronic mail Education Australia The student body of CSU is predominantly drawn from central and southern NSW and northern...

... in Australia face rapid growth in demand for network access. The study reports institutional responses to this demand and the concerns of the management of the IT function in Australian universities. Elements of the so‐called “support crisis” include: a new dependency of academic and administrative...