Opinion or editorial blog entries from members and other scholars

This essay points to a global problem evident in the field of ‘Internet Addiction’. Heavy Internet use is positioned as problematic based on an outdated, self-selecting test, and an extraordinary amount of quantitative research that continues to perpetuate abnormality. The limitations of the research in this field are highlighted... read more...

Author: Andrew Hope In lecture halls, classrooms, study areas and virtual learning environments something is haunting education… the ‘promise’ of data analytics. As part of the increasing...

Author: Michael Henderson There is a fundamental crisis that the digital technology teaching and research community face: the dominance of stories about what we do with technology rather than what we...

Author: Julie Faulkner In December 2013 The Age published a letter that continued the debate about our education system failing to meet student learning needs. Rather...

Author: Michael Henderson Nicola F. Johnson Glenn Auld Phillip Dawson Social media, such as social network sites and blogs, are increasingly being used as core or ancillary components of...

Author: Phillip Dawson failure, noun: “The fact of failing to effect one’s purpose” (Oxford English Dictionary, failure, n. 3a) Have MOOCs failed us? This depends on their...

Author: Neil Selwyn The entrepreneurial approach of Google, Facebook and their ilk is now increasingly touted as a means of addressing educational problems. But what does...

Author:  Andrew Hope On 6 June The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers reported that under a programme known as Prism the National Security Agency and...

Author: Nicola F. Johnson In the current climate of the internet age which we now find ourselves a part of, increasingly we are dependent upon various...

Author: Neil Selwyn Online courses are a growing feature of K12 schooling.  Many Australian schools are beginning to experiment with online provision for some classes, following...