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Students' perspectives on the impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) online learning by Chen, Julian, Dobinson, Toni, KENT, Sarah

“…Blackboard Collaborate (BC), a synchronous, multimodal platform, has been incorporated into Open University Australia (OUA) students' online learning experiences. …”
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Engaging, practical and empowering: Sexuality and relationships education at Curtin University, Australia that supports pre-service teachers by Lobo, Roanna, Hendriks, J., Mayberry, L., Burns, S., Pelliccione, L.

“…Conclusions: An undergraduate course dedicated specifically on school-based SRE has been successfully incorporated for pre-service teachers within the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia. Regardless of their teaching speciality (special needs, early childhood, primary and secondary), all students reported the unit content applicable to their future work as educators. …”
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Engaging, Practical and Empowering: Sexuality and Relationships Education at Curtin University, Australia That Supports Pre-Service Teachers by Hendriks, Jacqui, Mayberry, Lorel, Burns, Sharyn, Pelliccione, Lina, Lobo, Roanna, Doherty-Poirier, Maryanne

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Lecturers’ perceptions and experiences of Blackboard Collaborate as a distance learning and teaching tool via Open Universities Australia (OUA) by Chen, Julian, Dobinson, Toni, Kent, Sarah

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The use of VoiceThread as a multimodal digital platform to foster online students’ task engagement, communication and online community building by Chen, Julian, Bogachenko, Tetiana, Sims, Craig, Cooper, Martin

“…As highlighted in the recent Universities Australia Keep It Clever Policy Statement, “for Australia, meeting this era of change with confidence and skill requires a university system that is responsive, flexible and agile” (Universities Australia, 2016, p....…”
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Access and Barriers to Online Education for People with Disabilities by Kent, Michael

“…The study looked at students studying through Open Universities Australia (OUA). OUA brings together 15 different independent higher education institutions to teach students fully online across a number of different fields. …”
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Students with Disabilities and eLearning in Australia: Experiences of Accessibility and Disclosure at Curtin University by Kent, Michael, Ellis, Katie, Giles, M.

“…The results are compared to an earlier study of students at Open Universities Australia (OUA) (Kent 2016). The results confirm the earlier study’s findings that these students are drawn to eLearning. …”
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Online community building in distance education: The case of social presence in the Blackboard discussion board versus multimodal VoiceThread interaction by Chen, Julian, Bogachenko, Tatiana

“…This study investigates how online community building was fostered in the text-based Discussion Board (DB) and multimodal VoiceThread (VT) in one of the postgraduate units offered by Open Universities Australia. Specifically, it delves into how social presence – encompassing affective, cohesive, and interactive indicators in the Community of Inquiry (CoI) – was facilitated on both platforms. …”
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Twittering informal learning and student engagement in first-year units by Leaver, Tama

“…Twitter was introduced to two first-year student groups, both taking the unit Web Communications 101; one group in a campus-based blended learning mode, which utilized traditional face to face tutorials, while the second version was delivered fully online via Open Universities Australia. The ways in which students used Twitter was recorded and examined, highlighting three main uses: socialising, resource-sharing and posing questions. …”
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Is there cultural safety in Australian universities? by Rochecouste, J., Oliver, Rhonda, Bennell, D.

“…In the context of this paper, cultural safety includes cultural competency, as recently subscribed by Universities Australia and ‘extends beyond (to) cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity (Bin Sellik, 2003, p. 210) and includes putting in place explicit measures to address racism of all types. …”
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Stakeholder perspectives on the use of VoiceThread as a multimodal alternative to conventional discussion board in distance education by Chen, Julian, Bogachenko, Tetiana

“…This pilot study explores and documents online students’ and their lecturer’s debut experiences of utilising VoiceThread (VT), a digital multimodal platform, as an alternative discussion space via Open Universities Australia (OUA). Feedback from the lecturer’s teaching log and interview was corroborated with his OUA students’ survey responses, and analysed in relation to student online learning experiences with VT and Discussion Board, as well as technological and affective aspects of both platforms. …”
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Student perceptions of the teaching in online learning: and Australian university case study by Tucker, Beatrice, Halloran, Patrick, Price, Connie

“…In Australia, Open Universities Australia is the largest national provider of online learning. …”
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Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students by McGuffog, R., Rubin, M., Boyes, Mark, Caltabiano, M.L., Collison, J., Lovell, G.P., Muldoon, O., Paolini, S.

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Is online and distance learning a viable option for teacher education? by Dobozy, Eva

“…The distinction is made between open (through Open Universities Australia) and distance (through Curtin University), because of the different entry requirements for ITE. …”
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Disability, Mental Illness, and eLearning: Invisible Behind the Screen by Kent, Michael

“…This article reports on a recent study of students who registered for disability support while studying fully online through Open Universities Australia. The first stage of research was a survey of students who registered for disability support with the organization. …”
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Online student centred discussion: Creating a collaborative learning environment by Dixon, Robert, Dixon, Kathryn, Axmann, M.

“…This paper investigates the pilot study implementation of the Online Student Centred Discussion Program (OSCD) as designed by Axmann (2006) across the cooperating institutions engaged with Open Universities Australia. The program has been based on Wright and Shoop’s (2003) Student-Centred Discussion Model which places ongoing discussion at the centre of the learning process. …”
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Adding to the mix: Students use of Facebook groups and blackboard discussion forums in higher education by Kent, Michael

“…Facebook was used as a venue for online discussion to support the existing Learning Management System (in this case Blackboard) in the unit Internet Collaboration and Organisation as part of the Internet Communications degree taught fully online through Open Universities Australia (OUA). Students’ posts to both Facebook and the Blackboard discussion forum were analysed for content, length, and when throughout the study period they were posted. …”
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Acquired capability for suicide among Belgian and Australian University students: Psychometric properties of the German capability for suicide questionnaire and a test of the inter... by Preece, David, Kiekens, Glenn, Boyes, Mark, Mortier, P., Nock, M., Kessler, R., Bruffaerts, R., Hasking, Penelope

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Variational Analysis Down Under Open Problem Session by Bui, Hoa, Lindstrom, S.B., Roshchina, V.

“…Asen Dontchev on 19–21 February 2018 at Federation University Australia.…”
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Designing a safe walkable city by Tiwari, Reena

“…This article presents findings of a pilot study conducted by Curtin University Australia andEMBARQ India, with an objective of exploring safety concerns of people while accessing metro stations. …”
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