By Paul Kniest. On Wednesday 6 April 2016 the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released a report entitled Higher Education Loans Programme (HELP): Impact on Budget which shows that Australia’s internationally lauded income contingent HELP, or as many people would know it HECS, loan scheme is in danger of turning into Australia’s very own subprime loans crisis. More...
Curriculum development for distance education (DE) practitioners is more and more focusing on practical requirements and competence development. Delphi and DACUM methods have been used at some universities. More...
Higher education, and more specifically, distance education, is in the midst of a rapidly changing environment. Higher education institutions increasingly rely on the harvesting and analyses of student data to inform key strategic decisions across a wide range of issues, including marketing, enrolment, curriculum development, the appointment of staff, and student assessment. More...
This study explored the impact of role-playing on the quality of peer feedback and learners’ perception of this strategy in a case-based learning activity with VoiceThread in an online course. The findings revealed potential positive impact of role-playing on learners’ generation of constructive feedback as role-playing was associated with higher frequency of problem identification in the peer comments. More...
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Editorial: Volume 15, Number 2
Rory McGreal
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Robert Schuwer, Rob Kusters
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Hope Kelly
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Joel S. Mtebe, Roope Raisamo
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John Levi Hilton III, T. Jared Robinson, David Wiley, J. Dale Ackerman
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Yong Chen
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Olivier Marty
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Zhijun Wang, Li Chen, Terry Anderson
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Elena Barberà, Ludmila Layne, Charlotte N. Gunawardena
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Insung Jung, Seongyoun Hong
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Lisa C. Yamagata-Lynch
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Chi-Cheng Chang, Kuen-Ming Shu, Chaoyun Liang, Ju-Shih Tseng, Yu-Sheng Hsu
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Hanna Teräs, Jan Herrington
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Minjuan Wang, Yong Chen, Muhammad Jahanzaib Khan
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Vera L B Dolan
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Terry Anderson
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A Grattan Institute report released on Tuesday has recommended the income threshold for university debt repayments should be cut by A$12,000 (US$9,200), saving A$500 million every year, reports Australian Associated Press. Read more...
By . Last week’s historic changes to the Canada Student Loans Program – which saw the elimination of the Education and Textbook Tax Credits, and an increase of 50% in Canada Student Grants – is a very complicated piece of policy to analyze. Remember that there is no new money in this set-up: any new money given to one set of students through grants is money taken away from another set of students in tax credits. More...
By Courtney Kueppers. In a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education filed on Wednesday, the National Consumer Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Massachusetts demanded access to information on student-loan debt collection and its racial impact. More...
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Education Department has cleared the way for former students at 91 campuses once owned by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges to have their loan debt forgiven, the department announced on Friday. More...
By Courtney Kueppers. A rising level of debt among law students has led to increased stress and anxiety among them, says a report released on Monday. More...
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