ABSTRACTAt the start of the academic year reference staff are hard pressed to provide sufficient ... more ABSTRACTAt the start of the academic year reference staff are hard pressed to provide sufficient assistance to first-time users of CD-ROMs, who have missed bibliographic instruction classes, or who need more guidance before searching. The literature on CD-ROMs was reviewed, and a survey conducted to estimate the training needs of searchers. We found 100% of the inexperienced searchers required assistance while searching, and 50% of their search strategies were later rated as poor. More than half the experienced searchers also needed the librarian's assistance, and 31% of this group demonstrated a poor understanding of searching techniques. The survey findings were incorporated into CDIntro, a computer assisted learning package designed by the authors.
Special theme issue of International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2007, pp.... more Special theme issue of International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2007, pp. 1-113. This issue publishes the third and final set of refereed papers from the first wave proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning, held at the ...
This report is a response to local, national and international imperatives in tertiary education.... more This report is a response to local, national and international imperatives in tertiary education. Locally, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bill Lovegrove has opened the debate with his request for ideas for improving flexible learning and e-pedagogy as part of a broader initiative of ...
media production, and library services into a single division two years ago. One of the benefits ... more media production, and library services into a single division two years ago. One of the benefits mooted for the amalgamation was to provide an integrated support service for the curriculum innovations heralded in the University's institutional strategic plan. An aim was to mainstream what are currently innovative practices. This paper uses one case study to explore the factors impeding or supporting the up-take of "innovative practices " by academic staff typically not in the vanguard of change- in particular technology-based innovation. The literature abounds with examples of the technologically competent, curious and capable doing the equivalent of leaping tall buildings in a single bound. But where they leap, others will not follow. How could the wild and rugged environment be moulded and landscaped for sustainable inhabitation? Innovation and change has been one of the constants in Australian universities for the past decade. Innovations in teaching with accompany...
This issue publishes the third and final set of refereed papers from the first wave proceedings o... more This issue publishes the third and final set of refereed papers from the first wave proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning, held at the Springfield Campus of the University of Southern Queensland in Australia on 27 and 28 September 2007. This third conference in the series focused on “Meanings Emerging in Practice” as a lens for examining and evaluating multiple enactments of pedagogies and learning.
When Victoria University (VU) Australia, adopted a new learning management system (LMS) as part o... more When Victoria University (VU) Australia, adopted a new learning management system (LMS) as part of its Blended Learning Strategy and Operational Plan in 2014, it introduced a range of support structures including a staff support and training program. Complementing this, the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (the course providing professional development for early career academic staff) offered an elective AET4010 Blended Learning Design and Development fusing the pedagogical and theoretical aspects of blended learning to foster teaching as a design science.
This article is an update on a university-wide overhaul of its pedagogy, curriculum and delivery ... more This article is an update on a university-wide overhaul of its pedagogy, curriculum and delivery to support the expanding non-traditional, new generation learners while enhancing opportunity and success for traditional learners. The Block Model developed by Victoria University (VU), Australia for its undergraduate cohort, was a bold response to support all students including its high proportion of First-in-family (FiF), low socio-economic status (LSES), and non-English-speaking background (NESB) students. In this radical new hybrid Block model, students study one unit/subject at a time over four weeks. The article reports on preliminary results after two years of implementing the VU Block Model. While both traditional and new-generation cohorts significantly improved their performance, there was a higher improvement in the pass rates of LSES, NESB and FiF students, compared to the improvements in the traditional cohorts of students. These initial results confirm the value of the ins...
ABSTRACTAt the start of the academic year reference staff are hard pressed to provide sufficient ... more ABSTRACTAt the start of the academic year reference staff are hard pressed to provide sufficient assistance to first-time users of CD-ROMs, who have missed bibliographic instruction classes, or who need more guidance before searching. The literature on CD-ROMs was reviewed, and a survey conducted to estimate the training needs of searchers. We found 100% of the inexperienced searchers required assistance while searching, and 50% of their search strategies were later rated as poor. More than half the experienced searchers also needed the librarian's assistance, and 31% of this group demonstrated a poor understanding of searching techniques. The survey findings were incorporated into CDIntro, a computer assisted learning package designed by the authors.
Special theme issue of International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2007, pp.... more Special theme issue of International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2007, pp. 1-113. This issue publishes the third and final set of refereed papers from the first wave proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning, held at the ...
This report is a response to local, national and international imperatives in tertiary education.... more This report is a response to local, national and international imperatives in tertiary education. Locally, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bill Lovegrove has opened the debate with his request for ideas for improving flexible learning and e-pedagogy as part of a broader initiative of ...
media production, and library services into a single division two years ago. One of the benefits ... more media production, and library services into a single division two years ago. One of the benefits mooted for the amalgamation was to provide an integrated support service for the curriculum innovations heralded in the University's institutional strategic plan. An aim was to mainstream what are currently innovative practices. This paper uses one case study to explore the factors impeding or supporting the up-take of "innovative practices " by academic staff typically not in the vanguard of change- in particular technology-based innovation. The literature abounds with examples of the technologically competent, curious and capable doing the equivalent of leaping tall buildings in a single bound. But where they leap, others will not follow. How could the wild and rugged environment be moulded and landscaped for sustainable inhabitation? Innovation and change has been one of the constants in Australian universities for the past decade. Innovations in teaching with accompany...
This issue publishes the third and final set of refereed papers from the first wave proceedings o... more This issue publishes the third and final set of refereed papers from the first wave proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning, held at the Springfield Campus of the University of Southern Queensland in Australia on 27 and 28 September 2007. This third conference in the series focused on “Meanings Emerging in Practice” as a lens for examining and evaluating multiple enactments of pedagogies and learning.
When Victoria University (VU) Australia, adopted a new learning management system (LMS) as part o... more When Victoria University (VU) Australia, adopted a new learning management system (LMS) as part of its Blended Learning Strategy and Operational Plan in 2014, it introduced a range of support structures including a staff support and training program. Complementing this, the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (the course providing professional development for early career academic staff) offered an elective AET4010 Blended Learning Design and Development fusing the pedagogical and theoretical aspects of blended learning to foster teaching as a design science.
This article is an update on a university-wide overhaul of its pedagogy, curriculum and delivery ... more This article is an update on a university-wide overhaul of its pedagogy, curriculum and delivery to support the expanding non-traditional, new generation learners while enhancing opportunity and success for traditional learners. The Block Model developed by Victoria University (VU), Australia for its undergraduate cohort, was a bold response to support all students including its high proportion of First-in-family (FiF), low socio-economic status (LSES), and non-English-speaking background (NESB) students. In this radical new hybrid Block model, students study one unit/subject at a time over four weeks. The article reports on preliminary results after two years of implementing the VU Block Model. While both traditional and new-generation cohorts significantly improved their performance, there was a higher improvement in the pass rates of LSES, NESB and FiF students, compared to the improvements in the traditional cohorts of students. These initial results confirm the value of the ins...
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