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Making the connection: Allowing access to digital higher education in a correctional environment
(2019)In most Australian correctional jurisdictions, prisoners are not allowed access to the internet precluding them from participating in higher education online. This paper reports on an Australian government-funded project, ... -
Me, us and it: Insiders views of the complex technical, organisational and personal elements in using virtual worlds in education
(2019)The adoption and pedagogical use of technologies such as virtual worlds to support teaching and learning, and research in higher education involves a complex interplay of technical, organisational and personal factors. In ... -
How registered nurses balance limited resources in order to maintain competence: a grounded theory study
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)Background: Nurses have limited time outside of work for continuing professional development. Consequently, strategies need to be explored to enable them to better maintain their competence. This article describes recent ... -
A quest for the holy grail: Tactile precision, natural movement and haptic feedback in 3D virtual spaces
(2009)Three-dimensional immersive spaces such as those provided by virtual worlds, give unparalleled opportunities for learners to practically engage with simulated authentic settings that may be too expensive or too dangerous ... -
Australian higher education institutions transforming the future of teaching and learning through 3d virtual worlds
(2010)What are educators motivations for using virtual worlds with their students? Are they using them to support the teaching of professions and if this is the case, do they introduce virtual worlds into the curriculum to develop ... -
Teaching and learning in virtual worlds: Is it worth the effort?
(2010)Educators have been quick to spot the enormous potential afforded by virtual worlds for situated and authentic learning, practising tasks with potentially serious consequences in the real world and for bringing geographically ... -
Teaching first-year studies in religion students in second life: UQ religion bazaar
(2010)The UQ Religion Bazaar project was originally conceived in 2007 and developed through 2008. It consists of a Second Life island situated in the New Media Consortium educational precinct and boasts a number of religious ... -
How Do Students Use Their Mobile Devices to Support Learning? A Case Study from an Australian Regional University
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2015)Though universities are eager to leverage the potential of mobile learning to provide learning flexibly, most balk at the cost of providing students with mobile hardware. The practice of ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) ... -
New applications, new global audiences: Educators repurposing and reusing 3D virtual and immersive learning resources
(2019)There continues to be strong interest among established, experienced academic users of 3D virtual environments for their sustained educational use. Consistent with global trends, they plan to further develop and optimise ... -
Delivering digital higher education into prisons: The cases of four universities in Australia, UK, Turkey and Nigeria
(2016)Around the world, various correctional jurisdictions are struggling to enable the delivery of higher education into prisons. At a time when universities are moving increasingly online, very often access to the internet is ... -
How are Australian higher education institutions contributing to change through innovative teaching and learning in virtual worlds?
(2011)Over the past decade, teaching and learning in virtual worlds has been at the forefront of many higher education institutions around the world. The DEHub Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) consisting of Australian and New ... -
Digital equity: Diversity, inclusion and access for incarcerated students in a digital age
(2019)ELearning has been touted as the way in which universities can enable participation by large numbers of students from non-traditional cohorts. There is no doubt that the flexibility of access that eLearning allows makes ... -
Editorial 28(3): Preface to the special issue-Virtual worlds in tertiary education:An Australasian perspective
(2012)In recognition of the considerable innovation, experimentation and dialogue that has been taking place in the virtual worlds arena across the tertiary education sector in Australasia (see Dalgarno, Lee, Carlson, Gregory ... -
Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, Understanding the present and imagining the future
(2013)3D virtual reality, including the current generation of multi-user virtual worlds, has had a long history of use in education and training, and it experienced a surge of renewed interest with the advent of Second Life in ... -
Mobile learning anytime, anywhere: What are our students doing?
(Australian Journal of Information Systems, 2014)Recent developments in mobile technologies have provided unique opportunities for learning and teaching. This paper reports on recent research undertaken at a regional Australian university in order to understand how higher ... -
Using digital technologies to implement distance education for incarcerated students: a case study from an Australian regional university
(International Council for Open and Distance Education, 2014)As universities become increasingly reliant on the online delivery of courses for distance education, those students without access to the Internet are increasingly marginalised. Among those most marginalised are incarcerated ... -
The Development of Virtual World Tools to Enhance Learning and Real World Decision Making in the Australian Sugar Farming Industry
(International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), 2014)In farming, the outcome of critical decisions to enhance productivity and profitability and so ensure the viability of farming enterprises is often influenced by seasonal conditions and weather events over the growing ... -
Introduction to the 2014 Digital Rural Futures Conference Special Edition in association with the Regional Universities Network (RUN)
(2015)In June, 2014, the Digital Rural Futures Conference, an initiative of the Regional Universities Network (RUN), was held at the University of Southern Queensland’s Toowoomba campus. RUN, a network of six universities ...