Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 57

Disability and elearning

Tara introduces a seminar by Dr Mike Kent exploring the relationship between theories of disability and elearning.  Mike explores learning management systems and the future of accessibility.

Place, space and scale - education in context

Tara talks with Professor Bill Green about Murdoch University, higher education, literacy, language and politics.  They explore a very particular, special and distinctive pathway through Australia's intellectual history.

The self organizing university

Alan Bain talks with Tara about strategies to render universities more productive, socially just and collaborate.  He explores his 'smart learning' project and the enabling smart tools that facilitate its development.

The gifts of early childhood education

Tara talks with Professor Jennifer Sumsion about the importance of early childhood education.  Jennifer's goal is to demonstrate the intellectual power and importance of thinking about early childhood education with rigour, creativity and imagination.

Rethinking rural education with Kathryn Edgeworth

Rural education is often neglected and frequently invisible, being marginalized by the seemingly urgent and volatile conditions within urban environments.  Tara Brabazon talks with Dr Kathryn Edgeworth about her research and teaching practice in rural education.  They explore the impact of this neglect of the rural, and the transformative capacity of migrants in teaching and learning. 

Why is plagiarism such a big deal in our universities?

First students in our universities are threatened by the institutional consequences of plagiarism.  Yet do teachers spend an equivalent amount of time teaching information literacy as they do frightening students about plagiarism?  Tara asks her students how they feel about plagiarism and why it has become such an issue in the contemporary university.

Why did you enrol in a university degree

Tara asks her Scholarship students - right at the start of their first year - why they enrolled at the University of Bolton.  Their enthusiasm, honesty and belief in the future is inspiring.

The role of scholarship in media education

Tara introduces her final film with the first year students at the University of Bolton.  They explore the function of scholarship in media production.

Bolton city imaging - challenges and potentials

Tara talks with University of Bolton students about city imaging.  The students explore the challenges ancd potentials of Bolton in relation to international towns and cities.

Are you mobile? Mobility and education

A new signifier of class and status is mobility.  Tara asks her first year students at the University of Bolton to think about the nature of mobility and its role in higher education.