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Stoodley, Ian; Sayyad Abdi, Elham; Bruce, Christine; Hughes, Hilary – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
In November 2012, Queensland University of Technology in Australia launched a giant interactive learning environment known as "The Cube". This article reports a phenomenographic investigation into visitors' different experiences of learning in The Cube. At present very little is known about people's learning experience in spaces…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Virtual Classrooms, Interviews, Participant Satisfaction
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Rule, John; Dunston, Roger; Solomon, Nicky – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to provide an account of learning and change in the redesign of a primary health-care initiative in a large metropolitan city in Australia. Design/Methodology/ Approach: The paper is based on research exploring the place and role of learning in the re-making of health professional practices in a major New South Wales…
Descriptors: Primary Health Care, Program Design, Educational Change, Longitudinal Studies
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Bridgstock, Ruth – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
This article explores how universities might engage more effectively with the imperative to develop students' twenty-first century skills for the information society, by examining learning challenges and professional learning strategies of successful digital media professionals. The findings of qualitative interviews with professionals from…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Multimedia Materials
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Norris, Lindy; Tsedendamba, Nara – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper reports part of a broader qualitative case study of Asian students "translation" (Agar, 2006) to study in an Australian university. The paper is concerned with the experiences of eight participants and their involvement in a training programme in the use of language learning strategies (LLS) to support their engagement with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, College Students, Student Experience
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Hinchliffe, Kaitlin J.; Campbell, Marilyn A. – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2016
The current study explored the reasons that primary school teachers reported were tipping points for them in deciding whether or not and when to refer a child to the school student support team for excessive anxiety. Twenty teachers in two Queensland primary schools were interviewed. Content analysis of interview transcripts revealed six themes…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attribution Theory, Teacher Attitudes, Referral
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Ping, Rebecca Lee Su – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Past research has found that many pre-university L2 learners, having completed an Intensive English Program (IEP) still have difficulty in undertaking various disciplines in English-speaking tertiary institutions and continue to exhibit numerous linguistic problems (Bialystok, 2001, Celce Murcia 2001). The purpose of this paper is to present the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Intensive Language Courses
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Zhukov, Katie – International Journal of Music Education, 2014
The ability to read music fluently is fundamental for undergraduate music study yet the training of sight-reading is often neglected. This study compares approaches to sight-reading and accompanying by students with extensive sight-reading experience to those with limited experience, and evaluates the importance of this skill to advanced pianists…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Interviews
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Fielding, Ruth – Language and Education, 2016
Research involving the plurilingualism of young people has begun to focus upon how we must re-conceptualise language learning to acknowledge the language resources of children with plurilingual experiences. This is particularly important in countries like Australia with a traditionally monolingual mindset embedded in policy, education, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Use Studies, Multilingualism
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Patel, Chris; Millanta, Brian; Tweedie, Dale – Accounting Education, 2016
This paper examines whether universities are delivering pedagogical value to international accounting students commensurate with the costs of studying abroad. The paper uses survey and interview methods to explore the extent to which Chinese Learners (CLs) in an Australian postgraduate accounting subject have distinct learning needs. The paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Graduate Students, Study Abroad
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Marcon, Nerissa; Faulkner, Julie – English in Australia, 2016
Digital games are positioned in literacy research as integral to contemporary youth culture and their potential as a learning resource continues to be explored in current literature. This paper examines the use of "Minecraft" as a pedagogical tool to motivate girls' literacy practices within the secondary English classroom. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Learning Motivation
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Marshman, Margaret; Clark, Darren; Carey, Michael – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
With the introduction of Ways of Working in 2008, Queensland teachers received professional development on using investigations to teach mathematics. This case study explores the extent to which teachers in one Queensland Primary School use this pedagogy. To determine teachers' beliefs and teaching approaches, a five point Likert scale…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction
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Grootenboer, Peter; Hardy, Ian – Educational Practice and Theory, 2015
In this article we present a case study of a school community engaging in what we describe as educational praxis--a form of committed learning to meet the needs of poor and refugee students in a disadvantaged community in Australia. The school, part of the Catholic systemic school sector in Australia, shares its site with the local Catholic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disadvantaged, Catholic Schools, Foreign Countries
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Treacy, Kaye; Frid, Sandra; Jacob, Lorraine – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2015
This research was designed to investigate the conceptualisations and thinking strategies Indigenous Australian students use in counting tasks. Eighteen Aboriginal students, in years 1 to 11 at a remote community school, were interviewed using standard counting tasks and a "counting" task that involved fetching "maku" (witchetty…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numbers, World Views, Computation
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Lee, Scott; McDonough, Andrea; Bird, Jo – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Self-talk has been recognised as an important tool used by children to regulate their thinking and behaviour. Existing studies typically characterise children's self-talk according to broad categories that do not allow for investigation of self-regulatory aspects of children's internalised self-talk. The findings reported in this paper are based…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Self Management
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Wearring, Andrew; Le, Huong; Wilson, Rachel; Arambewela, Rodney – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
International students are an important part of today's global university sector. This paper explores, through 10 in-depth interviews, the perceptions of Vietnamese international students studying with regard to their experience of teaching and learning in Australia. The findings indicate that Vietnamese students struggle with language,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Experience, Learning Strategies
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