Embedding Plagiarism Education in the Assessment Process. Lessons on paraphrasing and citing sources can only be partially effective if they are not perceived as immediately relevant to the individual student. The authors used electronic plagiarism detection tools to help students understand correct academic practice in using source material. [Recents Items]
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On Education: It Takes More Than Schools to Close Achievement Gap. What if the impediments to learning run so deep that they cannot be addressed by any particular kind of school or any set of in-school reforms? By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO. [NYT > Education]
Fuelling our future. A realistic look at the viability of ethanol and biofuels as potential substitutes for at least a part of our dwindling petrol supplies. [On Line Opinion]
How to make a partnership pay its way. Public-private partnerships need not be ugly. [On Line Opinion]
Three companies to manage Snowy sale. Smh.com.au - Wed Mar 8, 07:52 am GMT [News4Sites - Australia Economy]
Global Teacher. Global Teacher is an intricate online network, created by the Victorian Education Channel and the School Library Association of Victoria to provide a dualistic, interactive, cyber setting, for educators and students to self publish using an especially designed publishing and communication tool. GLOBE is establishing a network that has been designed to enable educationalists from all over the…
Registration Open for A Well-skilled Future: Tailoring VET to the Emerging Labour Market. Registration is open for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research research forum, A Well-Skilled Future: Tailoring Vocational Education and Training (VET) to the Emerging Labour Market. The forum will cover research from the National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) and the Centre for Post-compulsory Education and…
ABS holds high hopes for online census returns. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) says it expects more than a tenth of all households to respond online to today's census. [ABC News: Breaking Stories]
National agreement to share e-learning resources. A national repository network to share digital learning resources has been endorsed by the heads of the Australian vocational and technical education (VTE) system. The National Senior Officials Committee, has given agreement to making learning resource repositories, which currently exist across the country, available through the Learning Object Repository Network (LORN). Flex-e-News, 6 September…