Acton Theatre

With increased demand to provide a greater access to content in higher education, universities have been focusing on developing their online learning courses and programs offered. Blended learning is well established in academia; however, the effectiveness of course design on student’s engagement remains uncertain. Instructors dedicated to teaching and learning are under pressure to explore …

meriSTEM is an ANU STEM education initiative providing comprehensive, curriculum-aligned, modular resources for senior secondary teachers, enabling them to ‘flip’ their classrooms in order to maximise deep, engaged learning. The purpose of meriSTEM is to increase student achievement, independent inquiry and critical thinking skills in STEM core subjects, while also increasing teacher capacity to facilitate …

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(TBC) What retro tech can teach

For the past several years SOL Illawarra Cultural Arts has been working on a vision to validate the power of music, dance, theatrics, cooperation and teamwork in terms of the real tangible results it can deliver. We decided that nothing could be more tangible than durable shelter. To this end, school teachers (general) music teachers, …

How can we avoid bias in the testers of a proposed systems? How can we assess functionality when many of our users have preferences for the form of one system over another? We devised a blind taste test – as close as we could reasonably achieve. As we approached the selection of the school’s main …