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Direct linkShu Jun Lee; Jeana Kriewaldt – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2025
Despite global interest in inquiry as a teaching and learning approach for school geography, little is known about teachers' knowledge and beliefs for teaching geography through inquiry. This paper reports on findings from a survey of 44 Victorian secondary teachers' knowledge, beliefs and practice of teaching geography through inquiry. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Geography Instruction, Inquiry
Loughlin, Wendy A.; Whiteford, Chrystal M.; Geelan, David R.; Brown, Raymond A. J. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: This study explored the challenges around enacting change in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subject at an Australian higher education institution and examined key elements required to ensure change. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the barriers and levers driving change during the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Affordances, Educational Change, STEM Education
See, Zi Siang; Ledger, Susan; Goodman, Lizbeth L.; Matthews, Benjamin; Jones, Donovan; Fealy, Shanna; Ooi, Wooi Har; Amin, Manisha – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2023
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes a technologies education model for introducing Simulation Learning and Extended Reality (XR) solution creation skills and knowledge to students at the tertiary education level, which is broadly applicable to higher education-based contexts of teaching and learning. Background: This work is made possible via the…
Descriptors: Technology Education, College Students, Models, Educational Technology
Rowland, Susan; Gannaway, Deanne; Pedwell, Rhianna; Adams, Peter; Evans, Robyn; Bonner, Hailey; Wong, Kai Sheng – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Recent focus on graduate employability has exposed the inadequacies of work preparation for science students, who need an employability toolkit to navigate the modern work landscape. An established mechanism to develop students' employment awareness is Work Integrated Learning (WIL), but Australian mathematics and science students participate in…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Foreign Countries, College Science, Undergraduate Students
What Tutors Bring to Course Design: Introducing Political and Policy Theories to Disengaged Students
Brown, Prudence R. – Teaching Public Administration, 2020
This article provides a case study of tutor's reflection on practice leading to a different approach to teaching an introductory course on politics and policy at a major Australian university, aimed at better reaching disengaged students. The overhaul led to higher levels of constructive student engagement in the tutorials, resulting in improved…
Descriptors: Tutors, Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
Reinke, Nicole B. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2019
Promoting student engagement and academic achievement in first-year anatomy and physiology courses. "Adv Physiol Educ" 43: 443-450, 2019; doi:10.1152/advan.00205.2018. Students from three undergraduate programs at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, studying combined first-year anatomy and physiology courses, showed different…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses, Anatomy
Download full textNarendran, Roshni; Almeida, Shamika; Coombes, Rebecca; Hardie, Geraldine; Quintana-Smark, Eunice; Zaher, Nabi; Wang, Hui-Ling; Chowdhury, Ahabab; Stevenson, Barry – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2018
This study examines the influence of adopting a student-centered active learning approach based on self-determination theory (SDT) to develop independent and motivated first-year Australian business undergraduates. Existing literature demonstrates how active learning approaches can help to improve student motivation. However, there are no…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Curriculum Development, Blended Learning, Case Studies
Wallace, Heather D.; Preston, Lou; Harvie, Kate M. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Authentic assessment has been promoted in teacher education as a means of addressing the challenge that pre-service teachers often face in translating theory into practice. In this article, we outline one approach to authentic assessment that utilises a poster format to present a humanities inquiry sequence. Drawing on a practice-based research…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Inquiry, Active Learning, Humanities Instruction
Geiger, Vince; Date-Huxtable, Liz; Ahlip, Rehez; Herberstein, Marie; Jones, D. Heath; May, E. Julian; Rylands, Leanne; Wright, Ian; Mulligan, Joanne – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to describe the processes utilised to develop an online learning module within the Opening Real Science (ORS) project--"Modelling the present: Predicting the future." The module was realised through an interdisciplinary collaboration, among mathematicians, scientists and mathematics and science educators that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Electronic Learning, Preservice Teachers
Jones, Adrian – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
An Australian scholar in the Arts and Humanities responds to recent US models emphasizing civic-engaged learning as a way to renew the humanities in undergraduate education. Policy contexts and curriculum initiatives of kindred trends in recent Australian undergraduate education in the humanities are contrasted in this essay. The Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humanities, Art Education, Undergraduate Study
Chamberlain, Susanna – Higher Education Studies, 2013
Creating an innovative suite of courses within the Bachelor of Arts has required the development of a complex pedagogy, particularly when the needs of the context require an interdisciplinary approach. This paper, which utilises reflection on practice as its methodology, explores the Social Enterprise core stream which has been a significant…
Descriptors: Humanities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reflection, Educational Practices
Butler, Des – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
A traditional approach centred on weekly lectures, perhaps supported by tutorials, still predominates in modern legal education in Australia. This approach tends to focus on the transmission of knowledge about legal rules and doctrine to students, who adopt a largely passive role. Criticisms of the traditional approach have led to law schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multimedia Materials, Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools
