There are many fad and buzz words in the higher education sphere. Most recently the terms ‘authentic learning’ and ‘authentic assessment’ have been spruiked as essential to good pedagogy. But what is authentic assessment and do we need it in ...

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Curtin University are reviewing their research funding and approval procedures over concerns research linked to the universities is being used to help detect and detain ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, China. Human Rights Watch ...

Despite record investment in education, Australian students’ literacy and numeracy levels have been steadily declining. This podcast series speaks with some of Australia’s K-12 education leaders and asks the key question: What, if anything, are we doing wrong? In episode ...

Robust regulatory requirements are essential to research, particularly in the field of health and medicine. The approvals procedure acts as a check against misconduct and risk, minimising harm to the participants and organisations involved. Yet in Australia, many researchers believe ...

The political history of Aboriginal Australians is being reappraised and rewritten through Victoria University’s Aboriginal History Archive (AHA). Containing thousands of digitised and rare photos, videos, campaign ephemera, press clippings and manuscripts, the collection covers the self-determination movement that swept ...

We all know that being resilient is a necessary skill in life, being able to bounce back after life serves us lemons. But new research has found that it’s even more critical for communications professionals living in regional Australia. The ...

Text-matching software for detecting and preventing plagiarism is nothing new, but new software released by Swedish start-up Urkund in partnership with Androgogic promises to up the ante. In a world increasingly full of “copy and paste” and students paying for ...

Even though the heavy metal music industry is a money-making machine and the fastest growing music genre in the world, it hasn’t been seen as a topic of serious academic inquiry in Australia. Until now. Last week the University of ...

Analytics and AI are combining to provide fantastic insights into “student learning and progress”. While today’s learning platforms can provide basic feedback on, say, how much of text a student has read or whether they have completed a section of ...

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