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Creating A Taxonomy For High Quality Learning Outcomes Using Icts In Higher Education, John Hedberg, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho Oct 2011

Creating A Taxonomy For High Quality Learning Outcomes Using Icts In Higher Education, John Hedberg, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho

Sandra Wills

No abstract provided.


Building Research Capacity Through Community-Based Projects, Kathryn M. Weston, Judy Mullan, Peter L. Mclennan Oct 2011

Building Research Capacity Through Community-Based Projects, Kathryn M. Weston, Judy Mullan, Peter L. Mclennan

Judy Mullan

Research during general practitioner (GP) training has historically been underrepresented in the medical curriculum. Few GPs in Australia have postgraduate research qualifications and few engage actively in research. The development of an integrated and innovative curriculum at an Australian university provides a unique opportunity to embed research and critical analysis (RCA) at every stage of the programme.


Managing Mouth And Skin Care Post Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy, Judy Mullan Oct 2011

Managing Mouth And Skin Care Post Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy, Judy Mullan

Judy Mullan

After reading this article, the pharmacist should be able to: • Provide a customer with information about appropriate mouth care during and following chemotherapy and radiotherapy. • Recommend appropriate therapy for gastrointestinal symptoms experienced post-chemotherapy and radiotherapy. • Provide a customer with information about appropriate skin care following chemotherapy/radiotherapy.


Strategies To Improve Student Reaction To Group Work, L. Kriflik, Judy Mullan Oct 2011

Strategies To Improve Student Reaction To Group Work, L. Kriflik, Judy Mullan

Judy Mullan

After receiving negative feedback from students and tutors about their group work experiences in a health subject, strategies to resolve these collaborative learning issues were considered. The objectives were to facilitate student ability to resolve group work issues, highlight group work as an important graduate attribute and to improve perceptions of the benefits of group work. A literature review assisted in identifying several strategies that had been used elsewhere to resolve issues similar to those raised by the students in this study. Consequently a number of support resources were designed for the revised delivery of the subject to the next …


Blister-Packed Medications: Improving Compliance And Reducing Adverse Events, Judy Mullan, John Mullan Oct 2011

Blister-Packed Medications: Improving Compliance And Reducing Adverse Events, Judy Mullan, John Mullan

Judy Mullan

After reading this article, the learner should be able to: • Describe the importance of dosage administration aids as a way to help improve medication compliance and therapeutic outcomes, as well as averting potential adverse drug events; • Identify the benefits of good communication between pharmacists, prescribing doctors and, when appropriate, hospital and/or aged care facility staff for the timely packaging, dispensing and administration of the correct medications in dosage administration aids.


The Casualisation Of Teaching And The Subject At Risk, Alisa Percy, Rosemary Beaumont Jul 2011

The Casualisation Of Teaching And The Subject At Risk, Alisa Percy, Rosemary Beaumont

Alisa Percy, PhD

The casualisation of teaching in Australian higher education has come to be problematised as a risk to the quality of teaching and learning. However, the potential and location of risk, and therefore what constitutes an appropriate institutional intervention, requires interrogation as universities comply with the various regulations that, on the one hand, legitimise further casualisation in the name of flexibility, and on the other, insist on institutional responsibilities in the performance of quality. Taking a critical approach to risk consciousness, this paper examines the way casualisation is produced through workplace reform and problematised as a danger to the student learning …


Learning Advising Practice And Reform: A Perspective From The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Alisa Percy, Bronwyn James, Jeannette Stirling, Ruth Walker Jul 2011

Learning Advising Practice And Reform: A Perspective From The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Alisa Percy, Bronwyn James, Jeannette Stirling, Ruth Walker

Alisa Percy, PhD

The claim made in this paper is that higher education reform and learning advising practice are not simply part of a natural progression; rather, they are discursively constituted. To illustrate this argument we draw on the work of Michel Foucault to reflect on two iterations of learning advising practice in Learning Development at the University of Wollongong, Australia over the last decade. Our discussion will demonstrate how a multiplicity of discourses underpin educational reform and privilege particular learning advising practices in the Australian higher education context.


Tutors' Forum: Engaging Distributed Communities Of Practice, Rosemary Beaumont, Jeannette Stirling, Alisa Percy Jul 2011

Tutors' Forum: Engaging Distributed Communities Of Practice, Rosemary Beaumont, Jeannette Stirling, Alisa Percy

Alisa Percy, PhD

The need to engage students studying at a distance in order to reduce isolation, foster a sense of belonging, and enhance learning has received significant attention over the past few years. Conversely, very little research has focused on teachers working in this type of environment. In fact, we argue, they appear to be the forgotten dimension in „communities‟ of distance learning. In this paper we identify some of the problems generated by teaching university subjects simultaneously across a network of campuses: a practice known as multi-location teaching. We examine strategies for engaging multi-location teachers as key contributors to a quality …


Bibliographic Notes On Captain R.M. Westmacott's "Sketches In Australia", Michael K. Organ Jun 2011

Bibliographic Notes On Captain R.M. Westmacott's "Sketches In Australia", Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

During my investigations into the life and times of Robert Marsh Westmacott (Aide-de-Camp to Governor Bourke from 1832 to 1837; artist and settler in Illawarra from 1837 to 1847), a somewhat mysterious figure like so many of our early colonial artists, I have encountered a number of variations of his published collection of eighteen tinted lithographs plus descriptive text, entitled Sketches in Australia. The question arose: is the work a true 'book' or merely a collection of lithographs? The bibliographic details for this work are described by Ferguson, 4955. However my studies have revealed a number of important variations of …


The Evolving Vocabulary Of The Social Sciences: The Case Of "Socialization", Jill G. Morawski Dec 2010

The Evolving Vocabulary Of The Social Sciences: The Case Of "Socialization", Jill G. Morawski

Jill G. Morawski

No abstract provided.


The Location Of Our Debates: Finding, Fixing, And Enacting Reality, Jill G. Morawski Dec 2010

The Location Of Our Debates: Finding, Fixing, And Enacting Reality, Jill G. Morawski

Jill G. Morawski

No abstract provided.


Trajectories Of Depression And Their Relationship With Health Status And Social Service Use, Chun-Min Chen, Judy Mullan, David Griffiths, Irene A. Kreis, Tzuo-Yun Lan, Herng-Chia Chiu Dec 2010

Trajectories Of Depression And Their Relationship With Health Status And Social Service Use, Chun-Min Chen, Judy Mullan, David Griffiths, Irene A. Kreis, Tzuo-Yun Lan, Herng-Chia Chiu

Judy Mullan

This longitudinal study was conducted between 1994 and 2004 in a cohort of Southern Taiwan community-living elderly residents. The study aims to explore the trajectories of depression and how these patterns differed between respondents who survived and those who died during data collection phases; this study also investigated how health status change and health/social service use predicted the different trajectories of depression. Eight hundred and ten participants had completed all six waves of the survey or were followed-up at each wave until death in the prospective study in Kaohsiung City. Depressive symptoms were evaluated by the Short Psychiatric Evaluation Schedule …


Predicting Lawyering Effectiveness: Broadening The Basis For Law School Admission Decisions, Marjorie M. Shultz Dec 2010

Predicting Lawyering Effectiveness: Broadening The Basis For Law School Admission Decisions, Marjorie M. Shultz

Marjorie M. Shultz

No abstract provided.