From preschool to PhD, education is afflicted by a malaise. Many students, teachers, parents and politicians, feel that with all the effort and money spent, we should be doing better.
Salman Khan, founder…
Online education may mean more stress and workload for academics, not less.
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FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: We continue our series on the rise of online and blended learning and how free online courses are set to transform the higher education sector. Today, ANU’s Rod Lamberts and…
Academics freedom and university reputations are being tested online.
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Trying to control your reputation online is a bit like trying to clean up wee in a toddler pool. You are much more likely to get your hands dirty than achieve any kind of meaningful damage control.
Many…
If Twitter allows us to follow (and share) our interests, then can it make a reliable measure of influence for media groups?
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By Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology
News of significant job losses and organisational restructuring at Fairfax has thrown new spotlight onto the continuing transformation of the Australian media landscape.
It’s clear that newspapers in…
Much like the development of the railway in the 19th century, the National Broadband Network (NBN) will transform our society.
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When I grew up in Canada there was a famous painting on the wall of nearly every primary school classroom. It was called “The Last Spike” and it depicted the final railway track connection being hammered…
The ANU music school cannot replace live one-on-one teaching with online lessons.
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The Australian National University (ANU) has recently announced serious changes to the School of Music in Canberra. Students will receive fewer hours of one-on-one performance lessons, and the current…
Are online dating sites preying on the vulnerable or do they foster love and relationships?
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Regulation of our intimate lives has always been a thorny issue. The anti-sodomy laws of the past and the same-sex marriage issue today illustrate times when policymakers can get it very, very wrong. Legislation…
New platforms and services will face the same requirements for content as traditional media.
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By Ben Goldsmith, Queensland University of Technology
Light on detail and raising many more questions than it answers, yesterday’s Convergence Review interim report is still bold and far-reaching, driven by a fundamentally optimistic view of the future for…
Australia’s media landscape may face another shakeup with the release of the Federal Government’s convergence review.
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The Federal Government’s Convergence Review has released its interim report, recommending the scrapping of existing cross-media ownership rules and that commercial operators be given “certainty” around…
It can be difficult to find accurate health information on the web if you don’t know where to look.
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If you typed “pins and needles” into Google, what kind of results would you expect to find? According to a recent study from Bupa Health, the search engine could diagnose you with anything from a completely…
Letting readers comment can direct journalism and make accountability a reality.
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On day two of the Media Inquiry, unconstrained online speech figured as a danger to democracy, rather than a new avenue for discussing media ethics and journalistic transparency.
Justice Finkelstein opened…
