Tertiary Undergraduate Literacy Integration Program (TULIP) : An innovative approach to tertiary teaching and learning
- Authors: Cartwright, Patricia , Noone, Lynne
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Seventh Pacific Rim - First Year in Higher Education Conference: Enhancing Transition to Higher Education: Strategies and Policies that Work, Brisbane, Queensland : 9th - 11th July, 2003
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- Description: Increased access to university by students with different backgrounds and capabilities from those in the past has posed, and continues to pose, dilemmas for lecturers who seek effective ways of addressing the challenge of undergraduate literacy and learning. To this end, we have been engaged on a Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development (CUTSD) funded program that we call TULIP (Tertiary Undergraduate Literacy Integration Program) which focuses on the integration of tertiary literacy within content teaching as a means of enhancing student literacy. The broad aim of the TULIP Project was to build on collaborative and reflective teaching and learning partnerships between lecturers and students, between lecturers across two universities, and between lecturers in disparate disciplines. The project developed, trialed and evaluated a suite of learner-centred literacy strategies that comprise the TULIP Resource Kit which foregrounds the embeddedness of tertiary literacy within content teaching.
- Description: 2003000500
Perceptions of engineering from female, secondary college students in regional Victoria
- Authors: Darby, Linda , Hall, Stephen , Dowling, Kim , Kentish, Barry
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Engineering Education for a Sustainable Future 2003, Melbourne : 29th September - 1st October, 2003
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- Description: Survey and focus group interviews with female students in regional Victoria resulted in identification of four perceived barriers that influence them to exclude engineering as a career choice. These barriers were identified as a lack of interest in the perceived image, a lack of knowledge, a traditionally male-dominated industry, and limited recognisable role models. This paper reports on what Year 10 females are saying about the barriers and, consequently, how engineering can be promoted to overcome these barriers.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000550
Marketing curriculum - The missing jigsaw piece
- Authors: Errey, Robert
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2007 Marketing Educators Association Conference : Building Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century: Fulfilling the Mission of Marketing Education, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. : 26th-28th April 2007 p. 125
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- Description: Concerns have been raised about marketing's apparent lack of strength at the board and senior management levels. One reason may be that marketers cannot clearly demonstrate how marketing contributes to the firm's financial performance. Perhaps what universities do not teach in the marketing curriculum contributes to this situation.
- Description: 2003005199
The development and use of an on-line tutorial in an attempt to improve the basic algebraic manipulation skills of first year engineering students
- Authors: Gourley, Trevor
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 13th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (2002), Canberra : 30th September, 2002
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000278
Flexibility : The key to delivering engineering education for regional Australia
- Authors: Hall, Stephen
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 10th WCCEE IACEE World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education, Vienna, Austria : 19th April, 2006
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- Description: This paper discusses the structures of the engineering programs at the University of Ballarat, a small dual-sector regional Australia University. Program structures have evoled to suit the student backgrounds and career aspirations, resulting in sigificant flexibility in the modes of delivery, industry uptake of graduates, the use of single units of continuing education purposes and the potential for student exchange.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001622
New dimension, new paradigm : Engaging engineering students in sustainability through practical actions
- Authors: Hall, Stephen , Hall, Nina
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Engineering Leadership 2004 a New Paradigm, Sydney : 23rd September, 2004
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- Description: 2003000821
Flexibility and community engagement in the delivery of engineering education for regional Australia
- Authors: Hall, Stephen
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 4th International Forum on Engineering Education: Integration of Teaching & Research with Community Service, Sharajah, United Arab Emirates : 25th-27th April 2006
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- Description: Skill shortage in many areas has been identified as a significant factor limiting sustainable development in regional Australia. In engineering, this is impacting mining projects, transport and water infrastructure, and even manufacturing in regional centers. It is proving increasingly difficult to attract urban-bred and educated graduates into regional engineering careers. Many students entering University from regional Australia are from lower socio-economic groupings; meaning that the normal four-year Bachelor of Engineering program is a durational and financial barrier that many fail. The University of Ballarat has over the past five years moved in consultation with industry and the professional body (Engineers Australia) to a linked three-year Bachelor of Engineering Science and follow-on coursework Masters of Engineering Technology (similar to the European Bologna process). These programs are accredited at Engineering Technologist and Professional Engineer levels respectively. This structure allows the three-year graduates to enter the work place with a recognized award if they wish, and/or to continue their engineering education. Community engagement is an increasingly important element of the curriculum process, both in training the engineers of the future in this area together with leadership skills. Collaborative agreements with industry are also being entered into to formalize staff development through higher education programs on-site, on-campus and via distance delivery. This paper will discuss the structures of the academic programs, the modes of delivery, industry uptake of graduates, the use of single units for continuing education purposes and the potential for student exchange.
- Description: 2003001623
Concepts of accident causation and their role in safe design among engineering students
- Authors: Hall, Stephen , Culvenor, John , Cowley, Stephen , Else, Dennis
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 18th conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Melbourne, Victoria : 9th-13th December 2007
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- Description: Safe design is a strong theme at present in Australia. To ‘eliminate hazards at the design stage’ is one of the five national priorities set out by the National OHS Strategy. The Australian Safety and Compensation Council have recently released both a guideline for safe design and an engineering education package. Safe design is not only about engineering decisions. Engineers are however an important group. This paper reports on a survey to evaluate perceptions of student engineers on topics relevant to the advancement of safe design including perceptions of: control versus fatalism; accident causation; and perceptions of the role played by engineers.
- Description: 2003004787
Video evidence : What gestures tell us about students' understanding of rate of change
- Authors: Herbert, Sandra , Pierce, Robyn
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 30th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group Of Australasia: Mathematics: Essential Research, Essential Practice, Wrest Point Hotel Casino, Hobart, Tasmania : 2nd-6th July 2007 p. 362-371
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- Description: This paper reports on insights into students' understanding of the concept of rate of change, provided by examining the gestures made, by 25 Year 10 students, in video-recorded interviews. Detailed analysis, of both the sounds and images, illuminates the meaning of rate-related gestures. Findings indicate that students often use the symbols and metaphors of gesture to complement, supplement, or even contradict verbal descriptions. Many students demonstrated, by the combination of their words and gestures, a sound qualitative understanding of constant rate, with a few attempting to quantify rate. This interpretation of gestures may provide teachers with a better understanding of the progress in their students' thinking.
- Description: 2003002300
Revealing conceptions of rate of change
- Authors: Herbert, Sandra , Pierce, Robyn
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at MERGA32 Conference, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand : 5th-9th July 2009
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- Description: Rate of change is an important mathematical concept. Research referring to students’ difficulties with this concept spans more than twenty years. Research suggests that problems experienced by some calculus students are likely a result of pre-existing limited or incorrect conceptions of rate of change. This study investigated 23 Victorian Year 10 students’ understanding of rate as revealed by phenomenographic analysis of interviews. Eight conceptions of rate of change emerged. Four important aspects of the concept were identified and gaps in students’ thinking defined. In addition, the employment of phenomenography, to reveal conceptions of rate, is described in detail.
- Description: 2003007238
Potential of technology and a familiar context to enhance students’ concept of rate of change
- Authors: Herbert, Sandra , Pierce, Robyn
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 28th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), Sydney : 7th July, 2005 Vol. 2, p. 435-442
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- Description: Students’ concept image of rate of change may be incomplete or erroneous This paper reports a pilot study, with secondary school students, which explores the potential of technology (JavaMathWorlds), depicting a familiar context of motion, to develop students’ existing schema of informal understandings of rate of change to more formal mathematical representations Students developed numerous ‘models of’ rate of change in a motion context which then transferred to serve as a ‘model for’ rate of change in other contexts
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001373
iPod therefore I can : Enhancing the learning of children with intellectual disabilities through emerging technologies
- Authors: Marks, Genee , Milne, Jay
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at ICICTE 2008: International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education, Corfu, Greece : 10th-12th July 2008
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- Description: This paper explores the pedagogical and social potential of emerging technologies, in particular the iPod, in facilitating the learning of young Australians with severe intellectual and social disabilities. The study, which was carried out in a segregated educational setting in Victoria, Australia, sought to establish whether the intrinsic portable, multi-media capabilities of the iPod particularly lent themselves to a practical application for students with severe disabilities. It was concluded that such new technology has considerable power and potential as an emerging pedagogy with students with severe intellectual and physical disabilities.
- Description: 2003006449
Student perceptions of podcasting to enhance learning and teaching in an information systems course
- Authors: Miller, Charlynn , Newnham, Leon
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 14th International Conference ALT-C 2007: Beyond Control. Learning Technology for the social network generation, Nottingham University EMCC, Nottingham, England, UK : 4th-6th September 2007 p. 104-115
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- Description: Universities are challenged to seek methods to improve student learning. Leading edge technologies, such as podcasts, that put the focus on learner-chosen activities may be one way to accomplish this. This study explored student perceptions of podcasting as a learning and teaching tool in a first semester information systems course within an Australian university. Students were provided with a short podcast to supplement face-to-face lectures. Students were then surveyed to determine their perceptions of the impact of this podcast on their learning. A high number of respondents agreed that they used the podcast, that it increased their understanding of the lecture material and that it assisted their learning in the unit overall. The findings in this preliminary study lend support to the concept that podcasting can enhance learning when used as a supplement to traditional teaching methods.
- Description: 2003002687
Mathematics education in rural schools
- Authors: Mousley, Judith , Marks, Genee
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 30th Conference of the International Group for Psychology in Mathematics Education, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic : 16th-21st July 2006 p. 411
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Incomplete or incorrect understanding of decimals: An important deficit for student nurses
- Authors: Pierce, Robyn , Steinle, Vicki
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 30th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME30, Mathematics in the Centre, Prague, Czech Republic : 16th - 21st July, 2006 p. 161-169
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- Description: In this study more than 40% of the 355 student nurses who completed a pre-test, involving comparisons of decimal numbers, made errors that indicate an incomplete or incorrect conceptual understanding. This includes students who are sometimes able to achieve 100% on drug calculations tests. Seven test items with error rates of between 10% and 26% form the focus of our discussion. A sub-group of the students attended a one-hour remedial intervention using various physical materials to give conceptual meaning to decimal numbers. A matched post-test three months after the intervention, detected a statistically significant improvement for the intervention students but not for those who only practiced drug calculation procedures. Conceptual teaching for number sense is needed to underpin procedures.
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- Description: 2003001562