Bridging the perceived disconnect between universities and schools is the aim of a new Monash University program designed to better prepare teachers for the classroom. Justen O’Connor, senior lecturer for the faculty of education at Monash University, said there has ...

Online learning breaks down barriers to education giving people who may not have accessed higher education a chance to study off campus and at their own pace. This is according to David-Jack Fletcher, an online teacher at Swinburne Online, who ...

Technology is changing the way educational intuitions will deliver learning now and in the future, a technology leader in the tertiary education sector says. In an exclusive interview, Peter Nikoletatos, executive director and chief information officer at La Trobe University ...

A virtual business simulation model that mimics the dynamics and pressures of a modern business environment is being used in education assessment. The simulated online business called the Australian Business and Management Association uses technology to closely reflect a real ...

Australia is a leader when it comes to producing world-class research however still struggles to transform scientific discoveries into commercial success stories. This, according to experts in the field, could lead to wide-ranging ramifications. “A thorough examination of the Australian ...

In an exclusive interview we spoke to Laurie Burruss, educational consultant at Lynda.com about the need to empower students with multimodal learning. “I was really trying to make a call to the educators in the room… to think how are ...

A senior Harvard academic has issued educators at all levels of the education system as well as students and their parents a call to action to effect what he argues is a long overdue revolution in assessment and examination models. Speaking ...

Virtual reality classrooms, wearable technologies and the use of metadata to identify struggling students will revolutionise the way Australia’s university students learn, new research forecasting future technology trends states. The research, by Open Universities Australia (OUA) and global not-for-profit group ...

A Deakin University researcher has launched a fundraising campaign for a study into how therapy dogs can raise literacy levels among young children. Dr Tony Chalkley began the campaign after witnessing previously reluctant readers, happily reading to a therapy dog ...

Challenges linked to student engagement exist in most types of learning environments but can be more difficult when it comes to online delivery. In an exclusive interview Campus Review spoke to Dr Shane Magee, senior lecturer at the Macquarie Applied ...