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Category Archives: just in time learning


Education.au report on Collaboration in Teaching and Learning published

18 February, 2009 – 2:07 pm

Education.au is providing a Strategic ICT Advisory Service to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The report on Collaboration in Teaching and Learning is the first public report from this service.
The report focuses on the information and communications technologies that enable collaborative learning to happen online and includes school education, vocational […]

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Snack attack learning?

7 April, 2008 – 10:00 am

The trend towards short dramas for delivery via mobile phone is a great opportunity for educators. If people, particularly the young, are looking to commercial ISPs for 4 minute doses of drama, what’s to say that they won’t be interested in a 4 minute refresher on their biology prac, their French verbs, or the lyrics […]

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ipods - not just about music

17 September, 2007 – 2:07 pm

I love to see how technology can be quickly adapted for useful purposes for students. A great example of this is at the ANU’s Academic Skills and Learning Centre where podcasts are being used to provide students with all kinds of valuable instruction - not related specifically to their courses, but to issues associated with surviving and […]

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Let’s go to the future. Let’s go!

17 October, 2006 – 3:51 pm

Fortune telling is big business - whether it’s tarot, tea leaves or a tingling feeling in your toes.  An American firm, Pew Internet, is trying to do just that in predicting the future of the internet in 2020.  They conducted a non-random sample of 742 people and asked them to respond to a range of scenarios and […]

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