In the first quarter of 2021, D2L conducted a global survey aimed at understanding some of the key themes that have emerged since the rapid shift to online learning in the higher education sector. Based on nearly 5,000 survey responses, ...

Professor Andrew Jaspan is the founder of the highly reputable publication, The Conversation, and former editor-in-chief at both The Age and The Sunday Age. He and his team have just launched a closed trial of the 360info service, which has ...

Anthony Forster of Essex University in the UK joins the podcast as our first international VC. He describes the values that drive how his university seeks to differentiate and what made it UK University of the Year in 2018. He outlines the quite ...

According to Australian emotional intelligence expert Dr Ben Palmer, Chief Executive of Genos International, universities could play an important role in securing the the sector's future by offering units in emotional intelligence in their initial teacher education courses. In a ...

VC David Lloyd of the University of South Australia shares insights from running the first staff jam across his whole university aimed at bringing staff engagement into its strategy; and repeating it again 4 years later. He describes how one unforeseen ...

In an exciting development for the teaching profession, La Trobe University’s unique Nexus program has recently produced its first group of classroom-ready secondary school teachers. In their first year, students work part-time in schools and receive direct mentoring opportunities and professional ...

In a recent article published in The Conversation, Dr Peter Hurley from the Mitchell Institute argued that Australia’s international student “crisis” in higher education would continue to linger long after our borders open en masse, citing the problem of the ...

Kent Anderson, deputy vice-chancellor at Newcastle university, joins us soon after a two-year spell in ministers' Tehan and Tudge's office guiding recent policy changes. He comments on the divide between chancelleries and ministry that has developed in recent years, and ...

Waking up at 3am in the morning and worrying is a common experience, and researchers have unpacked why we have late night sleep disturbances and how we can avoid it. Professor Greg Murray, a clinical psychologist and director of the ...

When the pandemic hit Australian university campuses in March 2020, institutions were scrambling to transition to online learning. However, as luck would have it, in the first months of 2020, educational designer Frances Cochrane was in the early stages of ...