There is no comprehensive national data on how much time an Australian child spends on a device at school. The rules are just as patchy.
- Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
AI can provide clear, polished responses. This signals to learners that deep mental engagement is no longer necessary.
Opposition education spokesperson Julian Leeser says universities should get rid of group assignments, branding them ‘unfair’.
The annual Student Experience Survey is a litmus test of student engagement, satisfaction and educational quality. But the survey’s categories of study no longer match the post-COVID experience.
Block subjects at university are receiving a lot of attention, but research says they may not be as effective for learning.
Mind blanks are typically triggered in response to a perceived threat. The chemical process that takes place essentially clears out your working memory, quiets logical processes, and walls off memory.
Le sentiment de confusion qui nous saisit parfois devant un problème complexe peut nous être utile. Signe d’une difficulté, il peut être surmonté et conduire à un meilleur apprentissage.
If you’ve ever felt confused then you’re not alone. But knowing how to deal with confusion can help us to learn new things.
With advances in technology and changes in the demographics of people attending university, the campus experience is changing.
While MOOCs can provide some great content, the teaching and assessment methods probably aren’t appropriate for high school students.
Recent articles calling for blanket removal of PowerPoint from education erroneously blame the tool for mistakes made by the user.
The recent decision to ban multiple-choice questions at an Australian university has sparked debate about the purpose of assessment in higher education. While there are many problems with the ways in which…
It’s a brave new world for higher education in Australia. We will soon have an open market and an overall reduction in government expenditure per student. This means universities will need to find alternate…
The computers for schools program, which involved federal funding for the supply of laptops to high school students, is set to end in June. The program was a central piece of the former government’s “digital…
With technology changing the landscape of higher education, The Conversation this week is running a series “Re-imagining the Campus” on the future of campus learning. Here, Jason Lodge ponders the future…
The promise was simple, but the idea couldn’t have been bigger. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) would make courses from Harvard and MIT available free to anyone with an internet connection. The world’s…
With technology becoming cheaper, more powerful and more mobile, a new trend in education is emerging – bring your own device (BYOD). Borrowing from the business world, bringing your own device simply…
Everyone, it seems, has a “fix” for education. The government has staked improvement on extra funding while others say a higher bar for teaching graduates is needed, and some view the prestige of the profession…
The pub argument is dead. Google killed it with a little help from your smartphone. Instead of long fought debates about who’s right and who’s wrong, an answer is nearly always within easy reach. With…
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