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Geocaching: Finding Mathematics in a Global Treasure Hunt
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Bragg, Leicha A. – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2014
If you love taking mathematics lessons outdoors, then you will love this article. Leicha Bragg describes geocaching, which combines technology, treasure hunting and mathematics, and results in purposeful, authentic and engaging mathematics.
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Mathematics Activities, Navigation, Program Development
Promoting Communication Skills for Information Systems Students in Australian and Portuguese Higher Education: Action Research Study
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Isaias, Pedro; Issa, Tomayess – Education and Information Technologies, 2014
This paper aims to examine the value of communication skills learning process through various assessments in Information Systems (IS) postgraduate units in Australia and Portugal. Currently, communication skills are indispensable to students in expanding their social networks and their knowledge at university and in the future workplace, since…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Information Systems, Higher Education, Action Research
Developing the Enterprise Curriculum: Building on Rock, Not Sand
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Jones, Colin – Industry and Higher Education, 2007
Entrepreneurship education is the process of providing individuals with the ability to recognize commercial opportunities and the insight, self-esteem, knowledge and skills to act on them. It includes instruction in opportunity recognition, commercializing a concept, marshalling resources in the face of risk and initiating a business venture. It…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
The Planning and Implementation of an Australian TAFE Clearinghouse System.
Kinnear, D. H.; And Others – 1980
Following the lead of the Department of Further Education in South Australia, the Australian Conference of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Directors began a TAFE Clearinghouse, having as its major goal the promotion of initiatives in research, investigation, and innovation in technical and further education. The Clearinghouse's functions…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Clearinghouses, Information Services, Information Systems