Australian Education: Passport to A Global Career (ISBN 978-1-921156-53-3) has been published and is now available. The guide offers a comprehensive coverage of Australian education and education providers and has been especially written for international students wanting to study in Australia. In her forward, the (new!) Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, says: “I am pleased … Continue reading “Australian Education: Passport to A Global Career”
Written by Anthony Hughes
The other day I was asked by a client to send a bullet point list of the main features of the online learning platform that we are developing for them. Condensing a lot of thinking around the development of a very complex platform for them proved to be pretty challenging but the list ended up … Continue reading “E-learning platform vs system”
Written by Anthony Hughes
For months I’ve been wondering exactly how digital literacy skills could be developed in ways that were relevant to the extra ordinary demands to reshape the way we use media and information while, simultaneously, ensuring that basic literacy skills such as reading and writing are given their proper place as the foundation of digital competency. … Continue reading “Developing Creativity to Make Sense of Digital Literacy”
Written by Anthony Hughes
I seem to be veering toward a Luddite’s perception of the Internet over the past few posts given their focus on some new and perhaps negative insights into either Facebook usage or Google searching. It’s a positive ‘veer’ though – I think it is clear that the glut of information that we now have washing … Continue reading “Engaged Brains and the Internet”
Written by Anthony Hughes
Tara Brabazon, Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, has a lot to say… and loudly … about the insidious effect on our ability to analyse and engage critically with information when we rely on the ‘McDonald’s, fries and Coke’ of the Internet, Google (Brabazon’s other descriptives for Google are the ‘whitebread’ and the … Continue reading “Is the Web Dumbing Us All Down?”
Written by Anthony Hughes
My own use of Facebook is pretty erratic. I swing between moments of great activity – uploading photos, linking to resources, messaging family and friends – and longer periods of complete lassitude when I do nothing at all with it. Facebook Fatigue – you just get tired of it after awhile. Too many other things … Continue reading “Facebook Fatigue”
Written by Anthony Hughes
I’m back in France for a couple of months after eight months in Australia. Having spent most of my working life in Europe, particularly in France, working on various digital media projects I am very interested to see how the French are thinking about e-learning in 2010. France was slow to pick up on the … Continue reading “E-learning in France: Anything new?”
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The iPad is about to hit Australia amidst a lot of hype, expectations and excitement. This latest release from Apple’s stable of beautifully designed and balanced products (the nec plus ultra of form meeting function) is already having an incredible impact on publishing and education. In the USA, three universities are already preparing to hand … Continue reading “iPad and Education”
Written by Anthony Hughes
We’ve just made a new version of this website available for iPhones. If you use an iPhone just tap in www.praxmatrix.com.au to view a fully customised iPhone version that makes navigating and reading very easy and still give you access to nearly all of the content. The only inconvenience is that embedded videos may not … Continue reading “Digital Media Updates on your iPhone”
Written by Anthony Hughes
Last month Reporters Without Borders, the watchdog for press freedom on the internet published its updated list of ‘internet enemy’ countries that ‘restrict online access and harass their netizens‘ as well as the list of countries ‘under surveillance’ that ‘display a disturbing attitude toward the Internet‘. Internet enemy countries include Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, … Continue reading “Australia ‘Under Surveillance’”
