Open educational resources (OER) have become new buzzwords in the glocalization of education. While OER are often espoused as enabling equity, reality is not always case. Looking only at positives methods can mask perpetuating challenges, which makes open aspect a misnomer. Taking an alternative stance, this article critically evaluates broader notion through lens equity. It contends that while equity reasons underpin provision OER, challenges continue to be experienced by some accessing...

Digital equity is a complex and multifaceted concept. It includes not only access to hardware, software, connectivity the Internet but also meaningful, high-quality, culturally relevant content in local languages, ability create, share, exchange knowledge. Participatory citizenship digital era involves right participate higher education. Indeed, it key civil rights issue of modern world. This editorial provides context which articles this special are located.

The integration of social media into higher education is having a significant impact on learning and teaching. As they become enmeshed in the fabric academia, are also becoming site contestation, especially relation to teaching learning. This research paper explores key issues dominating current debates about use Australasia. By exploring themes emerging from debate around Australasia, it integrates additional comments collective wisdom experienced colleagues globe, as captured debate’s...

Writing and digital storage have largely replaced organic memory for encoding retrieval of information in the modern era, with a corresponding decrease emphasis on memorization Western education. In health professional training, however, there remains large corpus which is most efficient means ensuring: A) that trainee has required readily available; B) foundation knowledge laid, upon medical builds multiple, complex layers detailed during advanced training. The carefully staged progression...

Background Climate-fuelled disasters are increasing in frequency and duration, with impacts known to disproportionately affect vulnerable populations, such as perinatal women young families. Local healthcare workforce engagement into planning responses is required ensure improved for these populations. One important component of care Australia occurs through the maternal child health nurses (MCHN). Attempted research nurse sector regarding impact on during times disaster has encountered...

The disciplines of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Health Sociology (HS) are essential to the practice person-centred medicine. However preclinical medical students often struggle comprehend relevance these their future practice, potentially leading a neglect obtaining knowledge assist patients. To address this challenge, three supervised rural co-designed developed online peer learning resource, MEDHAX. This ‘by students, for students’ interactive, dynamic, graphically appealing digital...

The word “flexible” literally means to be easily adapted, molded, or managed. As a term, it conjures up visions of the suppleness youth, malleability clay. Added as prefix educati...

Issues surrounding student participation, transition, retention and successful completion in higher education are topical. While the Australian federal government has identified broad groupings of under‐represented students, these do not shed light on complexities underlying issues educationally disadvantaged, such as compounding problems multiple equity‐group membership or overlay acute chronic effects equity sub‐group membership. This paper details Equity Raw‐Score Matrix. The matrix is a...

Open educational resources (OER) have already impacted systems around the world. In higher education more specifically, it has benefited learners, and influenced institutional strategic plans policies. Additionally, benefits of OER also extend to staff in education, such as academic staff. For this group, can provide opportunities for collaboration, promote curriculum innovation student led content development, well contribute university teachers’ much needed continuing professional...

Popular social networking sites such as Facebook demonstrate an emerging opportunity for students and educators within formal higher education contexts to share ideas, celebrate creativity participate in environment which offers immediate feedback from others who belong a specific network. As this is use of the technology, autoethnographic approach has helped capture potentials pitfalls incorporating education. The findings highlight implications key stakeholders

The rollout of technological advances in tertiary teaching and learning continues unabated. Concerns around staff lag acceptance adoption may overlook hidden influences. While considerations to address the digital divide equity for students has been a growing social justice issue since 1980s, what academic professional who facilitate their learning? They are other side coin and, as cohort, diverse they teach. Today, building capacity implementation technology higher education still remains...

<span>What are the differences in learning styles between students and educators who teach and/or design their e-learning environments? Are there variations of at different levels study? How may we use this data to inform This paper details mixed-methods research with three cohorts teaching environments higher education: novice undergraduate e-learners, graduate in, or designing for, (Willems, 2010). Quantitative findings from </span><em>Index Learning Styles...

<span>The Australian Government's widening participation agenda - also referred to as the social inclusion considers equity through triple focus of access, and outcomes. These foci are catalysts for re-examining teaching learning approaches in formal education. This article this national refocus possibilities addressing access issues within three-dimensional virtual environments (3DVLEs). The findings an Learning Teaching Council (ALTC)-funded project that investigated potential...

Flipped learning has become a popular blended approach in higher education and is now being adopted medical schools across Australia internationally. There are number of principal educational justifications for the introduction this approach, primarily, that it fosters deeper student through active engagement classroom. As pedagogical intervention however, what do various stakeholders think about its introduction? This paper explores reactions to implementation flipped pre-clinical regional...

In post-disaster recovery, optimising psychosocial support is important for all groups of the population, yet young adults have tended to be overlooked as a demographic in their own right. Research was conducted seek perspectives through narrative experiences years following 2009 Gippsland bushfires. One emergent theme findings highlighted importance information and communication during after events. Participants this research sought via social media virtual communities. These sites traverse...