Deakin staff grapple with IT cuts

08/11/2012 By
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NTEU Newsroom 29 October 2012    |    Campus Review     |    6  November 2012 Staff at Deakin University are reporting that they have been left to struggle with computer problems and dealing with such technology as video-conferencing following a restructure of information technology services, as the university begins to launch itself into the digital learning “cloud”, making IT knowledge and skills even more critical. The National Tertiary Education Union says staff are reporting on a daily basis that IT support, including general professional development, consulting and advice, is “disappearing”. According to NTEU Victorian division secretary Dr Colin Long,   … [Read more...]

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The university campus of the future: what will it look like?

17/10/2012 By
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The Conversation    |     17 October 2012   Article after article on online education predicts that bricks and mortar universities are set to be replaced by “clicks and mortar.” The sudden popularity of the MOOC (or Massive Open Online Course) – where brand name universities offer the same courses available to fee paying students for free, online – has seen some experts question the need for university campuses at all. While it may be a little premature to write off the need for a campus entirely, there’s no doubt online mobile education is set to radically alter university architecture. Exaggerated warnings For those with long memories, the predictions of … [Read more...]

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OpenLearning launches into competitive MOOCs market

16/10/2012 By
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The Conversation    |    16 October 2012 The University of New South Wales’ massive open online courses (MOOCs) platform OpenLearning has signed on  more than 1,000 students to a 12-week computer science and engineering course.   But experts say its decision to offer private industry-focused courses, automated marking, and “wisdom of crowds approach” could limit uptake by major universities. OpenLearning was built by UNSW graduates Richard Buckland and Adam Brimo, who call it “a combination of Facebook and Wikipedia for learning”. The Australian company will be emulating Facebook and YouTube and taking on Coursera and Blackboard with a platform that allows … [Read more...]

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MOOCs and exercise bikes – more in common than you’d think

15/10/2012 By
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The Conversation    |    9   October 2012 If you have an exercise bike in the back room, you could be the small selection of people that use it everyday to get fit. But then again, you could be one of many more who bought it in the hope of regular practice but were unable to make it part of your routine. The MOOC or Massive Open Online Course, which has come to prominence this year, often has much the same effect. Students may enrol in the online free courses from prestigious universities in their tens of thousands, but overwhelmingly they bomb out with attrition rates up to 80-90%. For most would-be participants, the MOOC is like the unloved exercise bike that haunts … [Read more...]

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Australian Financial Review Education Supplement 15 October 2012

15/10/2012 By
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As the Australian Financial Review is a subscription service, links will not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Uni limits fee rises as it cuts costs Private Bond University will keep fee rises below the inflation rate next year as it attempts to stem a 10 per cent decline in new students. Curtin leads the way on pay rises Curtin University staff will receive a 16 per cent salary rise over four years following a ground-breaking deal reached by university executives and the National Tertiary Education Union. More students get taste of the real world When … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Budget, Curtin University, MOOCs, National Tertiary Education Union, Teaching & learnig, TEQSA, universities, University of Newcastle Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , ,

UNSW launches a MOOC program

15/10/2012 By
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UNSW Newsroom    |    15 October 2012             Australian Financial Review    |    15 October 2012 The University of NSW has become the first university in Australia to have a massive open online course, or MOOC, available free on the internet, ahead of the universities of Melbourne, Western Australia and Queensland, whose MOOC programs are still being developed. A UNSW introductory computing course will be made available from 15 October.   While the course’s intellectual property is owned by the university, the course will be delivered through Open Learning – an online education start-up company that Associate Professor RichardBuckland founded with UNSW … [Read more...]

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UWA embraces MOOC

11/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |    10 October 2012 The University of Western Australia is the latest Australian university to embrace the "massive open online course" (MOOC) movement, from next year proposing to offer three courses using the Class2Go software created by Stanford University. While the University of Melbourne recently joined Coursera, the company through which Stanford, Princeton and 33 partners offer learning to the globe, Class2Go is a platform Stanford developed to service the needs of its own on-campus students and staff, as well as for delivering public courses. Like Stanford, UWA will use Class2Go to offer a "flipped classroom" model in which filmed lectures and … [Read more...]

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Online offers productivity gains

10/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |    10 October 2012 Group of Eight executive director Mike Gallagher has told a seminar universities need to take control of the productivity agenda to cut costs in teaching, research and administration, as well as boost retention. You can't have credibility if you are asking government to invest more in higher education or for students to pay more if you are going to pass on cost inefficiencies.  We have the opportunity to embrace the productivity agenda and define it on universities' terms. We can take advantage of this new breakthrough in online teaching to ask questions about what the potential is for improving university productivity in Australia by … [Read more...]

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This week in Campus Review – 2 October 2012

02/10/2012 By
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This post has been removed at the request of Campus Review … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Campus Review, Canberra University, Coalition policies, Commonwealth policies, Commonwealth-State relations, Higher education policy, International, International students, Research, Society, TAFE, University reform, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , ,

ANU vice-chancellor issues MOOCs warning

29/09/2012 By
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The Conversation    |    29 September 2012 Australian universities should be wary of being their “own worst enemy” when embracing Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) delivery, says Australian National University vice chancellor Ian Young. Comparing online course content with newspaper content, Professor Young questioned why Rupert Murdoch made the decision to deliver news content online for free. Once you have given away something it is very difficult then to make people pay for it.  If you’re giving away content and you’ve got a primary product that it’s in competition with, then you better hope what you’re giving away is inferior to your primary product, otherwise … [Read more...]

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