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Using management students as markers in engineering project papers
(2017)This presentation reports on the value of a new assessment strategy in a final year project-based engineering paper. This assessment strategy is aimed to enhance students learning more efficient and effective selfmanagement ... -
Flipped teaching and flexible learning in an undergraduate engineering course
(2017)In a flipped class, lecture materials are assigned as take-home tasks for students to complete prior to attending face-to-face classes. The class time is thus freed up for the application of the learned ideas through active ... -
A socially contextualised approach to professional learning for school leaders
(Monash University, 2018)Distinctive school contexts pose a challenge for professional learning for school leaders but this distinctiveness does not mean professional learning has to become entirely individualised. Schools with clusters of common ... -
Is peer review in academic publishing still working?
(Routledge, 2018)Peer review is central to academic publishing. Yet for many it is a mysterious and contentious practice, which can cause distress for both reviewers, and those whose work is reviewed. This paper, produced by the Editors’ ... -
A shift from traditional pedagogy in Nepali Rural Primary Schools ? Rural teachers’ capacity to reflect ICT policy in their practice
(2018)Policy by the government of Nepal emphasises the need to develop ICT competencies and suggests the use of ICT will transform traditional models of teaching to ones that are studentcentred. This article reports a study of ... -
Language challenges in mathematics education: A literature review
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Education Research, 2016)Traditionally, the difficulties associated with mathematics were largely seen as coming from the cognitive demands of mathematics itself. It is now accepted that language and mathematics are connected in mathematics learning ... -
Personalised learning with mobile technologies in mathematics: An exploration of classroom practice
(Wilf Malcolm Institue of Educational Research, 2017)Personalised learning is generally understood to be of benefit to students’ learning. In addition, the flexible nature of mobile technologies (MTs) and the variety of available apps are seen to respond to the needs of ... -
Riariakina ō rongo hirikapo From kōhanga reo to kura
(Teaching & Learning Research Initiative, 2017)Ko te kaupapa tonu, ko te whakatupu i te mahara o te hirikapo kia tiu ai ki te muri, arā, kia puta he whakaaro i pokepokengia nō roto tonu i ngā whakahekenga kāwai o ngā tūpuna o te tamaiti, kua maranga te wā e kaumātua ... -
New teachers respond to curriculum policy in a Master of Teaching and Learning Programme: A collection of working papers
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Reseach, 2017)How do new teachers in a Master of Teaching and Learning [MTchgLn] programme read, make sense of, and reflect on The New Zealand Curriculum [NZC] as policy intent, implementation and outcomes? (Ministry of Education (MoE), ... -
Making the implicit explicit: A strategy for developing doctoral writing skills
(2016)This workshop will focus on the conference theme of partnership (doctoral students and generic learning developers) and how it can contribute to student success. Since the late 1990s many factors have affected doctoral ... -
Technology education in New Zealand secondary schools: Time to realise future-focused and innovative practices.
(2017)The official New Zealand Curriculum in technology education (MoE, 2007) counters past interpretations of the subject and provides opportunities for teachers to offer future-focused and innovative learning opportunities for ... -
Introduction to special issue: Mobile technologies and learning
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)The ways that mobile technologies are used for learning needs to be examined. Mobile technologies are a relatively recent addition to the way we communicate and engage with the world. They allow flexible ways to interact ... -
Backyard perspectives: Considering a biogeographical, sociocultural and socioecological framing of environmental education in Australasia and Asia
(Japanese Society for Environmental Education, 2017)Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand are geographically situated at the southern edge of the Asia-Pacific region and have therefore sometimes been referred to as the ‘backyard’ of the wider Asia region. It is from this vantage ... -
Prismatic storying: Making visible multi coloured codes
(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2018)Language is a casement into cultures' deepest meanings. As children acquire languages, they implicitly adopt the mores of people around them; read the symbols, artefacts and codes. In this article, we examine the importance ... -
Legacies of learning: Negotiating guidelines for online discussion
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, The University of Waikato, 2015)This study involves students in constructing a community resource or legacy for future learners to use. In this instance, the resource takes the form of a set of guidelines for Asynchronous Online Discussion (AOD). Working ... -
Keynote: Going to university—Blended strategies for learning and teaching in a modern tertiary context
(FLANZ, 2016)This think piece is a follow-up to a keynote delivered at the biennial DEANZ Conference, at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, in April 2016. It explores the University of Waikato’s Mixed Media Pathway. ... -
Professional online presence and learning networks: Educating for ethical use of social media
(Athabasca University, 2017)In a teacher education context, this study considers the use of social media for building a professional online presence and learning network. This article provides an overview of uses of social media in teacher education, ... -
From confounded to common ground: misunderstandings between tertiary teachers and students in online discussions
(ASCILITE, 2019)Drawing on findings from two studies, this article focuses on the expectations of students and teachers in higher education, when learning via asynchronous online discussions. In particular, this synthesis highlights a ... -
[Review of Childhood sexuality and AIDS education: The price of innocence by Deevia Bhana]
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article reviews the book, "Childhood sexuality and AIDS education: The price of innocence," by Deevia Bhana -
Pacific students and pedagogical success [Editorial]
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, the University of Waikato, 2018)Debates about rates of achievement for Pacific students have been a feature of educational conversations in New Zealand for over three decades. We do not intend rehearsing the substance of them here, as components of them ...
