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Digital Fluency : Skills Necessary For Learning In The Digital Age, Gerald White
Digital Fluency : Skills Necessary For Learning In The Digital Age, Gerald White
Dr Gerald K. White
This article examines the skills that will be required for the 21st century that will need to be embedded in educational curricula in order achieve them. It begins by considering how communicating between people has changed and current educational responses. A view of 21st century skills follows with an argument for some core subjects that will be necessary. Learning and teaching are then discussed leading to a view about what is needed in order to develop digital fluency in education, for now and the future.
Teaching Thesis Writing, Policy And Practice At An Australian University, Janice Skillen, Emily Purser
Teaching Thesis Writing, Policy And Practice At An Australian University, Janice Skillen, Emily Purser
Emily R Purser
As an indicator of serious engagement in an academic discourse, thesis writing enjoys universal recognition. While its importance in higher education is unquestioned, the need to teach students how to write a thesis (let alone what method to use) has been less generally accepted. In Australia, explicit instruction in thesis writing was rare until quite recently, but is now widespread and becoming almost mandatory. This paper briefly explains the shift and describes how the teaching of thesis writing is approached at the University of Wollongong. UoW’s major provider of academic skills instruction – Learning Development – supports student learning across …
Digital Integrity And The Teaching/Learning Nexus: Taking The Pedagogical Pulse Of The Multi-Location University., Jeannette Stirling, Kerryn Hopkins, Brendan Riddick
Digital Integrity And The Teaching/Learning Nexus: Taking The Pedagogical Pulse Of The Multi-Location University., Jeannette Stirling, Kerryn Hopkins, Brendan Riddick
Jeannette Stirling
This case study considers questions of pedagogical and educational integrity in relation to multi-location or distributed learning environments that deploy blended learning models. Specifically, we engage with the implications of these models in light of recommendations that Australian universities continue to improve access for students from low socio-economic backgrounds and other identified equity groups. We provide an overview of the critical success factors germane to the implementation of these models at the University of Wollongong in 2000 and examine some of the pressure points that have emerged as the project expands into 2010.
Undergraduate Personnel Economics (Ilrle/Econ 4430), Matthew Freedman
Undergraduate Personnel Economics (Ilrle/Econ 4430), Matthew Freedman
Matthew Freedman
In this course, students will be expected to apply economic theories to human resource management issues. The course will provide students with a rigorous framework in which to understand and analyze real-world personnel policies, their implementation, and their effects. Topics and issues we will discuss include human capital theory, hiring standards and screening, productivity and performance measurement, compensation schemes, layoffs and buyouts, training, teamwork, performance incentives, benefits, worker empowerment, and employee evaluation programs. Students will demonstrate their mastery of the subject through class participation as well as in exams, problem sets, and a group project.
Course materials are posted on …
Undergraduate Intermediate Microeconomics - Math-Intensive (Bepp 250), Matthew Freedman
Undergraduate Intermediate Microeconomics - Math-Intensive (Bepp 250), Matthew Freedman
Matthew Freedman
This course will introduce you to “managerial economics”, the application of microeconomic theory to management problems. Microeconomic theory is a remarkably useful body of ideas for understanding and analyzing the behavior of individuals and firms in a variety of contexts. The goal of the course is to get you to internalize this body of theory well enough so that you can rigorously and efficiently analyze management—as well as other—problems in an economic framework. While this is a “tools” course, we will cover many real-world applications, particularly business applications, throughout the course. We will depart from usual microeconomic policy courses with …
Graduate Labor Economics Ii (Econ 7430/Ilrle 7460), Matthew Freedman
Graduate Labor Economics Ii (Econ 7430/Ilrle 7460), Matthew Freedman
Matthew Freedman
This course is one-fourth of a two-semester sequence in graduate labor economics. This segment will focus on theories of principal-agent models and compensation design; firm, industry, and occupation effects; job search theory; and labor market policy evaluation. In addition to covering the basic theory behind these subjects, we will discuss the major empirical challenges surrounding each topic. We will go on to develop and apply different econometric approaches to dealing with such challenges, including difference-in-differences, instrumental variable estimation, and regression discontinuity.
See also the Labor Economics Seminar Series.
Course materials are posted on Blackboard.
Taught Spring 2013.