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Sonia Santoveña-Casal; Javier Gil-Quintana; José Javier Hueso-Romero – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2024
Purpose: Microteaching is a teacher training method based on microclasses (groups of four or five students) and microlessons lasting no more than 5-20 min. Since it was first explored in the late 20th century in experiments at Stanford University, microteaching has evolved at the interdisciplinary level. The purpose of this paper is to examine the…
Descriptors: Microteaching, Networks, Higher Education, Electronic Learning
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Subas Dhakal – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the practice of traditional higher education providers (HEPs) and highlighted the need for innovative approaches to education for sustainable development. This research note focuses on online short courses (OSCs)--micro-credentials geared at upskilling or reskilling learners with a competitive application process…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Online Courses, Sustainable Development, Electronic Learning
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Pamela Snow; Tanya Serry; Eamon Charles; Joanna Barbousas – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2024
Coverage of reading and reading instruction in initial teacher education is highly contested, with the "reading wars" representing decades of debate concerning approaches that should be promoted to teachers-in-training. Empirical evidence strongly endorses explicit and systematic teaching of code-based skills as a starting point,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Boud, David; Jorre de St Jorre, Trina – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2021
The rush to short courses and use of micro-credentials prompted by responses to the pandemic has greatly accelerated a trend already underway. However, few studies have examined the impact of short courses or micro-credentials on skills or employment outcomes, and this hasty move draws attention to major problems in the ways in which higher…
Descriptors: Credentials, Minicourses, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education
Palmer, Bryan – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
This report is the support document accompanying "An analysis of 'micro-credentials' in VET," which examines subject-bundle enrolments in Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system in 2019. This support document is a technical discussion of how the raw data were extracted and transformed for analytical purposes and it…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Credentials, Minicourses, Course Selection (Students)
Stanwick, John; Siekmann, Gitta – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2019
Skill sets have become recognised as an important short form of training for the modern world of work. They are seen to have a variety of purposes, including upskilling, compliance and licensing, meeting a defined industry need and as an entry pathway to further training. An analysis of nationally recognised or training package skill sets forms…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Skills, Minicourses, Educational Development
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Selvaratnam, Ratna; Sankey, Michael – Open Praxis, 2021
Micro-credentialing is rapidly growing globally as learning that is both life-long and lifewide and this has only accelerated due to COVID-19. To understand what this means for higher education, The Australasian Council on Open, Distance and eLearning has conducted two surveys on the implementation and practice of micro-credentialing in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Credentials, Higher Education, School Policy
Circelli, Michelle; Stanwick, John – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
This report examines whether a distinction can be made in Australian VET between initial vocational education and training (IVET) and continuing vocational education and training (CVET), as applies in a number of other countries. Assisting students to more effectively identify and undertake courses that will optimise their outcomes from VET is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Professional Continuing Education, Definitions
Palmer, Bryan – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
In recent years, there has been substantial interest in micro-credentials in post-secondary education. In November 2019, Australian skills ministers agreed to fast-track work exploring micro-credentials in the national vocational education and training (VET) system, with the aim of ensuring that the system responds more effectively to the needs of…
Descriptors: Credentials, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Minicourses
OECD Publishing, 2021
The OECD Career Readiness project makes use of quantitative evidence to investigate how teenage career-related activities and attitudes are associated with better adult employment outcomes. Review of multiple national longitudinal datasets confirms 11 indicators of better outcomes linked to the ways in which teenagers explore, experience and think…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Employment
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Bossu, Carina; Fountain, Wendy – Open Praxis, 2015
Addressing the gap between global open educational resource (OER) proliferation and the slow adoption of OER and open educational practices (OEP) in Australian higher education, this paper focuses on a capacity-building project targeting academics, academic support staff and educational developers. The conception, design, development, piloting and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Capacity Building, Open Education, Open Source Technology
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Onsman, Andrys – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
This paper questions the value of the current trend towards mandating formal teaching accreditation in higher education and argues that the "just-in-time" nature of short training programmes coupled with on-going occasional mentoring is likely to result in more productive professional development for academic teachers. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Mentors, Teacher Certification
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Swindell, Richard – Australian Journal of Adult Education, 1986
The author describes students' and lecturers' reactions to a five-day residential course for older adults. The course was designed to develop competence at word processing and familiarity with other computer applications. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Literacy, Introductory Courses, Microcomputers
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Goward, Gordon – Australian Journal of Adult Education, 1971
This article places on record some reflections about The Grange, Tasmania's residential college-its history and its acquisition by the National Trust, its early use by the Adult Education Board of Tasmania and its subsequent evolution. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Educational Facilities, History
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Dyson, Laurel Evelyn; Robertson, Toni – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2006
In 2002 the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney began a major initiative to improve the participation of Indigenous Australians in the Information Technology (IT) sector. This followed an initial study which showed that very few Indigenous students undertook studies in IT at university and therefore few found…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Indigenous Populations, Information Technology, Scholarships
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