Louise Williams asks whether universities will still matter in the future The way Bill Gates sees it, the university, as we know it, is an endangered species. “Five years from now – on the web for free – you’ll be ...
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University of Adelaide science needed a device for seamless access and the exchange of information so students could learn to educate themselves so they chose the iPad. The introduction of Apple iPads for all science undergraduates at the University of ...
More »Graduate computing skills lag behind business needs
Universities are teaching methodologies five to ten years old, Beverley Head finds University computing schools aren’t turning out IT graduates with Agile computing skills as fast as businesses would like, leaving companies using the Agile approach to systems development with ...
More »The sociotechnology of survival
The older the habit, the harder it is to break, and in higher education, some habits go back 1000 years, writes Mark Ellis. When technology creates the capacity for everyone to be a learner at all times, rendering lecture theatres ...
More »Reviewing IT in higher education
The higher education review has been told of a massive gap between supply and demand for ICT graduates, says Beverley Head. There are around 176,000 information and communications technology (ICT) professionals and 42,000 managers currently employed in Australia, according to ...
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