Month: December 2019
Informal learning spaces and their impact on learning in higher education
Craig Deed discusses the need for student-oriented teaching and learning environments and the emergence of built informal learning…
The influence of group status on leader endorsement
Based on the idea that leadership is a group process, Ilka Gleibs discusses how followers’ endorsement of a…
Rethinking practice for the use of data from crowdsourcing market places
New technologies like large-scale social media sites (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) and crowdsourcing services (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk,…
Making most of the spectrum of mentoring and coaching in education
Rachel Lofthouse discusses how to create powerful professional learning through coaching, mentoring and collaborative leadership in education.
A Different Kind of Teacher for a Different Kind of School
The current “old school” paradigm of teaching and learning is based on students sitting passively in rows, completing…
Cross-Reactive Bactericidal Antimeningococcal Antibodies
The threat from invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) remains a serious source of concern despite the licensure and availability…
Teaching university subjects online, changing technology and pedagogical practice
David Smith explores the development of a new hybrid learning framework designed to assist lecturers in the planning…
Education isn’t a meritocracy, it’s a ‘parentocracy’
Kellie Bousfield discusses how the education system feeds into the “choice” parents make. In Australia, and elsewhere, the system…
The unintended consequences of MifID II regulations
MiFID II was intended to create a more transparent, competitive and integrated financial market in the EU by…
Becoming a Community Musician
Dave Camlin discusses an approach to training in community music that is congruent with its pluralistic and diverse…
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