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One third of colleges considering changing their Learning Management System
Reading the Distance Education Survey 2010 (from the Instructional Technology Council) is fascinating. Although the report is only based American community colleges, I think there are lots of parallels...
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What the future holds - The Horizon Report 2011 Schools Edition
After the publication of the Horizon report in March, the new 2011 Schools Edition (or 'K-12 Edition' as it's really called, as it originates in the US) has just been published, and provides a really...
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What factors influence school performance in Australia?
I am halfway through reading “School performance in Australia: results from analyses of school effectiveness”, a research report published in 2004. It looked at the performance of Victorian schools, as...
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The 5 factors which affect school performance
As I mentioned on Friday, I’m currently reading “School performance in Australia: results from analyses of school effectiveness”, a research report published in 2004.When the report starts to take a...
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Windows 7 to reach four out of 10 computers by end of year
Last month, I wrote that two-thirds of PCs are still running Windows XP, and wrote about some of the things that hadn’t been created when Windows XP was launched (Feeling nostalgic? Your students may...
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Building a more efficient research datacentre
The Microsoft team that run our internal IT systems have to manage a complex and very fluid IT environment - just like you. And the It team are often at the leading/bleeding edge of technology...
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How important is ICT to academic success - the majority of US parents say ‘Very’
Phi Delta Kappa - a US teachers professional association - use Gallup to carry out a poll of 1,000 Americans about their attitudes to education, teachers and related areas in the public schools system....
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The Australian Government’s ICT strategy for Education
There are all kinds of interesting documents that describe the Australian Government’s ICT strategy for Education, so here’s a summary of some of the key resources you can use to research the market....
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The Education Sessions at Australia Partner Conference - Part Two
This is part two of a series, covering the Education sessions at the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference. Read part one (The Microsoft Australia Education Team) hereI covered an overview of the...
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Are education leaders more optimistic about online education than the public?
The Pew Research Centre are a respected American organisation that shares research on issues, attitudes and trends shaping modern life. Although they tend to be US-centric, much of their research is...
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What are the PISA tests?
Every now and then you’ll read that Australia has done well/badly/averagely in the “PISA tests” - and there’s often an assumption about what that means (Variously: schools are doing...
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Future Works Skills - The challenge for the assessment system
There are a lot of projects underway around the world looking at the skills that students will need for the future workplace. I’ve just read the “Future Works Skills 2020” report, which was completed...
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What's Next at Microsoft
Microsoft is a big place - with tens of thousands of people designing, creating, coding and building things around the world. There’s simply too much going on to keep up with it all. With just under...
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What skills do your students need to work in the world’s greatest workplaces?
Hopefully it’s the same for you, but I rarely get that ‘Monday Morning’ downer. Of course, weekends are rarely long enough, but I can live with that. Maybe part of the reason for that is highlighted by...
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Common and critical mistakes in using data to monitor student performance
After writing about the new UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers yesterday, I spent time reading through the model, and thinking about how the information could be applied. I found some...
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Student Recruitment - social media in student recruitment
Varsity Outreach, a US-based marketing agency specialising in Facebook marketing for colleges and universities in North America, has just released a survey ‘Facebook in Admissions’ from 150 colleges...
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Using the Cloud for research in Higher Education
After two weeks of discussions with various groups in universities in Australia about using the Cloud for research in higher education, here’s a couple of press items that caught my eye that are...
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Schools Workforce in Australia - Productivity Commission Report
In November the Australian Productivity Commission produced a draft report on the Schools Workforce in Australia. It’s a draft because they are looking for comments and feedback by the middle of...
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Students and Technology - what can we learn from US research?
Somehow I missed this at the time, but have just caught up with The ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology Report from 2011, published by EDUCAUSE (an education group...
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Lessons learned from DER Student Devices
A few weeks ago, the Inter-American Development Bank released a report on the roll out of the One Laptop Per Child programme in Peru, where the government has put 850,000 laptops into the hands of...
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