From the outset, well-known and respected academic Professor Marcia Devlin draws attention in a recent article to a subject that appears to be languishing in academia. Released this month in Academic Letters, Devlin quickly establishes some disappointing statistics relating to ...

The research in learning and teaching shows clearly that didactic teaching and passive reception do not result in deep, lasting or meaningful learning for most students. Yet we persist with lecturing at students in large groups in most universities. Worse, ...

Friday, 9am. Then five past the hour. The clock crept on. Still, the students had not arrived. Beginning to wonder if he was in the wrong lecture theatre, the professor called the subject coordinator. Nope, he was in the right ...

In looking at ways to comprehensively restructure its first year student program, Victoria University chose to abandon the "industrial model of education that is very hard to change". Professor Marcia Devlin, VU's senior deputy vice-chancellor, was presenting at this week's ...