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van der Laan, Luke; Ormsby, Gail; Fergusson, Lee; Pau, Maria – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
This article presents a work-based learning and research approach to professional postgraduate education specifically in the case of Higher Degree by Research (HDR) programs. It highlights a prototype of the Cohort-based Advisory Team (CAT) model as a useful strategy. The authors propose that a design thinking approach that empathises with the…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Graduate Students, Advisory Committees, Design
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Seeto, Eva-Marie – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2016
In January 2016, the International Association of Student Affairs and Services (IASAS) offered a global professional mentoring programme that would link student affairs leaders internationally with new graduates and early career professionals in student services. Protégé participants were primarily new graduates of preparatory programmes in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Professional Development
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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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Blackley, Susan; Bennett, Dawn; Sheffield, Rachel – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This pilot study examined student engagement with a web-based digital professional portfolio through the 3C process of collect-critique-curate. To overcome common problems associated with electronic portfolios, including cost; specificity; lifelong access; and ease of use, the study used "Weebly" as its portfolio platform. The creation…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Electronic Learning, Pilot Projects
Dempster, Neil; Fluckiger, Bev; Lovett, Susan – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
The purpose of this paper is to report on a small pilot study in which an heuristic was used to enable principals to reflect on the confidence they have in their existing leadership knowledge and how they might add to that knowledge in the future. The motivation for the study arose from a literature review of strategies for leadership development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership
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Darwin, Stephen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Conventional student-led evaluation is now an orthodox feature of the North American, UK and Australian higher education landscape. Increasingly, it is guiding major institutional decisions around educational quality, academic promotion and more recently institutional funding by government. Yet significant research around student-led evaluation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Promotion, Evaluation Methods, Educational Quality
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Grace, Sandra; O'Neil, Ross – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2014
Despite calls for better preparation of students and supervisors for clinical placement, few dedicated pre-placement resources have been developed. The aim of this project was to design, pilot, and evaluate an online resource to prepare health students and supervisors for clinical placements. Development of an online resource was informed by the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Supervisors, College Students, Health
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Burns, Marcelle – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
The Review of Australian Higher Education (Bradley Review, 2008) and the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (Behrendt Review, 2012) identified the need for tertiary institutions to incorporate Indigenous knowledges into curriculum to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Professional Development
Andrew, Helen – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
The primary aim of this research was to consider the benefit of providing professional development in intercultural competence for general staff at Deakin University. While the question arose from a disparity identified in the University policies, the importance of this consideration was highlighted in an impending audit to be conducted by AUQA,…
Descriptors: Professional Personnel, Professional Development, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
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Cameron, Roslyn – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: The use of e-portfolios in recognition of prior learning (RPL) processes in workplace and professional practice contexts has attracted little attention in the literature due to its emergent nature. This study seeks to explore the growing incidence of e-portfolio-based RPL (e-RPL) and professional recognition (e-PR) processes in Australia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Content Analysis, Personnel Evaluation
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Little, Alison J.; Leon de la Barra, Bernardo A. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
This paper describes a project undertaken by the school outreach team at the School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, Australia, to attract girls to science, engineering and technology (SET). The project was a pilot program designed to engage female students from upper primary to senior secondary in the teaching of physical sciences. A…
Descriptors: Females, Pilot Projects, Physical Sciences, Information Technology
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Thomson, Rosemary; Wilson, Gail – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
The Assessment Snapshots digital resource is a current project to support academic learning about assessment by diffusing knowledge and understanding of locally contextualised good practice in assessment at the University of Western Sydney. An initial collection of Snapshots was made available to academic staff on the university web site in early…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Pilot Projects, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
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Newman, Linda; Findlay, John – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
The authors report on a project in which a new experiential form of professional learning combined ethical thinking processes with a collaborative meeting technology known as the Zing team learning system (ZTLS). A new software program called "Working Wisely" was built by the completion of the project. The ZTLS in combination with…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Experiential Learning, Early Childhood Education, Pilot Projects
Vocational Training Council (Hong Kong). – 2000
This document contains 123 papers from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The papers focus on the following themes: (1) societal and ethical issues; (2) human resource development and personnel training; (3) international issues; (4) information technology in VET;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Alternative Assessment