MOOCs and money and the future of higher education

So far, the internet and digital technologies have had less influence than we might have expected on higher education, but innovation sometimes creates seismic shifts that aren’t discernible on the surface. Standing in the Great Court at the University of Queensland, you may hear the call of the currawong, but you may miss the call of the MOOC which just might presage your learning future.  

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NAPLAN writers have trouble writing a writing test

As a novelist, I should be grateful ACARA has focused on persuasive writing, as all that seems to damage is our innate capacity for advertising copywriting. I hate to think what teaching to a narrative writing test might look like, for which, apparently, you need “a beginning and a complication” with a conclusion that “may be weak or simple” and “not all words used successfully.” 

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