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Venables, Anne; Tan, Grace – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2009
Higher education programs need to prepare their graduates for the practical challenges they can expect to face upon entering the workforce. Students can be better prepared if their academic learning is reinforced through authentic workplace experience, where the link between theory and professional practice can be realized. Increasingly, such…
Descriptors: Industry, Program Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Vale, Colleen – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2010
Principals are very aware that there is a great deal of competition in attracting qualified teachers of mathematics to their school, since there are just not enough qualified mathematics teachers out there. Recent studies of the qualifications of teachers in Australian schools have confirmed that there is a crisis in the supply of qualified…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematics Instruction
Harris, Andrew T. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2009
The University of Sydney has offered an undergraduate course in particle technology using a contemporary problem based learning (PBL) methodology since 2005. Student learning is developed through the solution of complex, open-ended problems drawn from modern chemical engineering practice. Two examples are presented; i) zero emission electricity…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Problem Based Learning, Course Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Vardi, Iris – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2008
This study examined the relationship between teacher written feedback and change in the disciplinary writing of tertiary students in their final year of undergraduate study. The student texts and teacher written feedback examined arose naturally out of a third year disciplinary-based unit in which each student submitted a text three times over the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Study, Error Correction, Postsecondary Education
Johnston, Robbie; Davis, Rob – Teaching Education, 2008
At the University of Ballarat, pre-service teachers (PSTs) in their second year of the Bachelor of Education (P-10) are required to plan community-based teaching and learning in conjunction with school students, their teachers and schools along with community organizations. These requirements are in synergy with curriculum developments in schools…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Barriers
Wimshurst, Kerry; Allard, Troy – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
There is a limited literature on academic failure in higher education despite the fact that failure is a common experience among undergraduates. Student and course characteristics were examined in relation to proportions of fail grades assigned in a Faculty of Arts. Concerns had been expressed that combinations of two grades, F (failure to reach a…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Academic Failure, Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics
Lynch, Grace; Paasuke, Philip – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In response to an exponential growth in enrolments the "Tutorial Support Management" (TSM) model has been adopted by Open Universities Australia (OUA) after a two-year project on the provision of online tutor support in first year, online undergraduate units. The essential focus of the TSM model was the development of a systemic approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, School Holding Power, Undergraduate Study
Overland, Martha Ann – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
The University of Western Australia is the latest of a half-dozen Australian institutions to drastically overhaul its academic programs, in a move to bring its degrees more in line with global standards, as well as ensure it remains attractive to prospective students. The universities are essentially parting ways with the British system and moving…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Undergraduate Study, Law Schools, Labor Market
Armbruster, Chris – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
In the search for a viable twenty-first century cost-sharing contract between university, student and state, the issues of rising participation and student demand, functional differentiation, institutional competition and stratification and social inequality are systematically discussed. The argument develops through, firstly, a critical appraisal…
Descriptors: Tuition, Higher Education, State Aid, Educational Finance
Sanders, Roy – Australian Library Journal, 2008
Through an analysis of the results of a survey of Australian employers of Library and Information Studies (LIS) graduates, this paper explores the current demand and future need for undergraduate LIS education in Australia. In the context of recent calls for adopting a purely postgraduate level of entry to the profession, the overwhelming majority…
Descriptors: Library Education, Graduates, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
Williamson, Jane; Dalal, Priya – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
Attempts to Indigenise the curriculum run the risk of implying the application of an "impoverished" version of "Aboriginal pedagogy" and the promotion of corrupted understandings of Indigenous knowledge (Nakata, 2004, p. 11). What is required, Nakata (2004, p. 14) argues, is a recognition of the complexities and tensions at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Curriculum Design, Humanities
Al-Mahmood, Reem; Gruba, Paul – Computer Science Education, 2007
Over the past few years Australian universities have sought to establish generic graduate attributes statements to meet the demands of external stakeholders. Within the area of information and communication technology (ICT), for example, professional organizations and employers want new ICT graduates to be able to talk with clients, create…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Information Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
Lindsay, Jo – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
Contemporary undergraduate courses in research methods are challenging to teach because of the wide scope of the subject matter, limited student contact hours and the complexity of supervising research projects undertaken by novices. Focus group assignments within class offer an interesting and enjoyable way for students to develop and apply…
Descriptors: Assignments, Methods Courses, Social Science Research, Teacher Education Curriculum
Xiao, Lily Dongxia; Paterson, Jan; Henderson, Julie; Kelton, Moira – Educational Gerontology, 2008
Literature reveals difficulties in preparing nurses to care for older people. This article reports a study that aimed to facilitate positive changes in gerontological education in an undergraduate nursing program by identifying barriers and effective actions. A critical research approach was applied to the study. Data were mainly collected through…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, Focus Groups, Nursing
Hubball, Harry; Gold, Neil – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Higher education organizations, institutions, and academic units globally are grappling with the challenges of redesigning curricula and developing and adopting institutional, professional, and program-level learning outcomes. Implementing learning-centered curricula, however, cannot be considered simply as a series of unproblematic and discrete…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Undergraduate Study, Outcomes of Education