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Online higher education
The exhilarating benefits of life on campus: friends and frenemies
As we approach the commencement of the academic semester, it is evident that a significant portion of teaching …
Uni’s back: Five ways to build useful online learning
The pandemic hastened the transition to online delivery. While several studies have looked into strategies for developing higher-order …
How Australian universities could stop inequality and save the planet in one easy move
To address the global inequalities in access to higher education, I propose an Australian-led network for global online …
Five Ways to Rethink Online and Blended Learning Post-COVID
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Australian universities rapidly shifted to online models of learning and teaching. Some …
Online learning will never be a substitute for face-to-face
In 2020 higher education student satisfaction with their ‘entire educational experience’ hit its lowest point since Australia’s national survey of current students began in 2011. But the detailed survey results, which cover many aspects of student life, paint a mixed picture. Despite an unexpected shift to online learning due to COVID-19 restrictions, satisfaction with many …
Why practical content really matters for assessment in online learning
Meet Melissa Fanshawe and Katie Burke, two senior lecturers from the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland. These two first met in a Zoom workshop in which they were both presenting on online pedagogy. Hearing about each other’s ideas, they instantly wanted to work together. Here’s what happened next. Melissa: We teach …
Students say uni online learning is mostly ‘busy work’. Here’s what will really engage them
To combat high failure and student drop-out rates, universities have developed strategies to monitor online student engagement through measurable activities. We explored if and how these monitoring activities accurately measure online engagement. Perhaps our most surprising finding was that the teacher-education students in our study did not see their set online tasks as being valuable …
Online higher education: how Charles Sturt University engages its students
Reducing student attrition rates in higher education has come into sharper focus with the growth of online courses. …