en1996-2004 by Commonwealth of Australia. Permission is granted to copy and distribute this document in whole or in part, provided it is done for educational and non-commercial purposes only and that this entire copyright notice remains attached.askedna@edna.edu.auhttp://api.edna.edu.au/recent.rssEducation Network Australiahttp://www.edna.edu.auhttp://www.edna.edu.au/images/edna_online_logo.gifhttp://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/publications_resources/2020_newsletter/default.htm.The Higher Education 2020 Newsletter aims to keep the sector and stakeholders informed about the Australian Government's higher education policies and programs. The current issue includes news on the Review of Australian Higher Education, updates on changes to legislation and guidelines, and information on funding rounds and other key developments.http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/lit_reviews/Teachers_Review.pdfThis review examines how teachers learn, and what part digital technologies may have to play in that process. The authors reviewed what is known about teacher learning, before introducing digital technologies into the equation.http://fno.org/mar03/truecost.htmlWhen most schools and districts install networks, they are unlikely to appreciate fully the wide range of costs accompanying the installation. Some of these will be dollar costs. Some will be organizational and psychic. When major costs and impacts arrive unannounced and unanticipated, they may cause embarrassment and damage. It makes good sense to look ahead without rose-tinted glasses.http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/global_leaders/The aim of this World Forum Foundation project is to improve life chances for young children around the world by providing opportunities where developing early childhood leaders can become effective change agents and advocates for quality early childhood development services in their home countries.http://www.col.org/colweb/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/docs/A_Prospective_Vision_for_Universities_web.pdfThe essay begins with an analysis of the crisis besetting Latin American universities. Whilst some of Dr. Romero's strictures are unique to that continent, most apply throughout the developing world. By allowing themselves to be weighed down by their relationship with governments, universities have surrendered their independence and their capacity to adapt and survive.http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402216&c=1Striking the balance between offering a complete annotated script of your lecture and making students take reams of notes is essential. When preparing lecture handouts, there is a temptation to cram as much text as possible into a few PowerPoint pages. Derek Cox, professional development co-ordinator at the Staff Development Centre at Leicester University, advises to turn your presentation into a Word document, which allows more flexibility with presentation. It also enables you to include exercises in the handout, rather than supplying them separately. The article includes relevant links.http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS/08/The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web. SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and information sharing.http://mediacentre.dewr.gov.au/mediacentre/oconnor/releases/boostforschoolscienceeducation.htmActing Education Minister, Brendan O'Connor, today announced extra funding for three school science programs, working towards providing Australian students with a world class science education. Over the next two years, the Science by Doing project will receive $2 million to improve the teaching and learning of science in junior secondary years by exciting students' interest in science.http://www.editlib.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Reader.TOC&volume=7&issue=3&source_code=IJELIJEL serves as a forum to facilitate the international exchange of information on the current research, development, and practice of e-learning. In this issue: Resolving the Problem of Intelligent Learning Content in Learning Management Systems. Marta Rey-Lopez, Peter Brusilovsky, Maram Meccawy, Rebeca Diaz-Redondo, Ana Fernandez-Vilas, Helen Ashman; Assessing Student Achievement and Progress with Online Examinations: Some Pedagogical and Technical Issues. Anshuman Khare, Helen Lam; Online Identity:Guidelines for Discerning Covert Racism in Blogs. Gulsun Kurubacak; An Evaluation of the Learning of Undergraduates Using E-Learning in a Tertiary Institution in China. James Liu, Xiangqian Cheng; Assessing Students for Online Learning. Anastasia Trekles Milligan, Janet A. Buckenmeyer; Personalized Versus Collective Instructor Feedback in the Online Courseroom: Does Type of Feedback Affect Student Satisfaction, Academic Performance and Perceived Connectedness With the Instructor? Tara Gallie...http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/4211.0?OpenDocument#ADULT%20LEARNINGEducation and Training Matters June 2008 is the third newsletter of the National Centre for Education and Training Statistics (NCETS) at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The biannual newsletter highlights recent developments and current NCETS projects. This edition includes the topics: Adult learning; Apparent continuation rate; and Education and training related publications.