Reaching the Hard Places: A Three-Year Evaluation of the Addition of Concise Online E-Clips into an Academic Development Program

Diana Quinn

Interactive Technology and Smart Education Vol. 7, No. 4 (2010) pp. 230–246

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine current approaches to teaching used in academic development services and consider the diversity of their learners (academic faculty). Faculty engagement with teaching issues and innovations remains a...

Responding to diversification: Preparing naïve learners for university study using Time Budgets

Diana Quinn; Bruce Wedding

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)

Government reforms have resulted in an increasing number of pathways and options for a broader cohort of students to undertake university-level study. These diverse learners need support to develop successful study orchestrations, balancing...

Retention in Online Courses: Using a Motivational Framework and Online Peers to Enlighten Potential Learners about Learning Online

Andrea Duff; Diana Quinn

Journal of Learning Design Vol. 1, No. 3 pp. 29–40

Despite the exponential growth in online learning, student retention rates in the online environment remain a concern to educators. Online learning @ UniSA is a learning object aimed at laying foundations for online learning for prospective students....

Leading change: Applying change management approaches to engage students in blended learning

Diana Quinn; Yousef Amer; Anne Lonie

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2011 (2011) pp. 1039–1049

Re-engineering for Australia’s engineering skill shortage

Patrick James; Diana Quinn; Brenton Dansie

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2011 (2011) pp. 624–629

To address Australia’s engineering skills shortage, the University of South Australia has teamed with Open Universities Australia to create an online version of an approved Associate Degree in Engineering from 2012. This initiative involves large...

Learning from Experience: The Realities of Developing Mathematics Courses for an Online Engineering Programme

Diana Quinn; Amie Albrecht; Brian Webby; Kevin White

International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology Vol. 46, No. 7 (2015) pp. 991–1003

Rarely do university departments of mathematics redesign their basic mathematics courses. Through developing an online version of our associate degree in engineering in collaboration with Open Universities Australia, we redesigned the first in a...

The Engineering ‘Hubs and Spokes’ project: Institutional cooperation in educational design and delivery

David Cropley; Paul Compston; Lauren Kane; Kim Blackmore; Diana Quinn

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 90–94

The emergence of blended course techniques that embrace a combination of face-to-face and online learning environments offers a raft of opportunity for flexibility in education. While much writing has focused on the opportunities for flexibility for ...

Leading change: Applying change management approaches to engage students in blended learning

Diana Quinn; Yousef Amer; Anne Lonie; Kim Blackmore; Lauren Thompson; Malcolm Pettigrove; Malcolm Pettigrove

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2012)

The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of South Australia (UniSA) have embarked on Federally-funded project to collaborate in the design, development and delivery of a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in...