Publications
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Review of VU English Language Entry Levels for International Students
Helen Borland, Amanda Pearce and Rochelle England (2007)
Description: There is considerable discussion among students, partner institutions, and in some quarters within VU, about the appropriateness of VU’s English language entry levels for international students. This is an important issue for VU, given that the sustainability of the University depends on meeting student load targets for international students, both on and offshore.
Communicating with Chinese students offshore to improve their transition and adjustment to Australia - A pilot program
Best, G, Hajzler D., and Henderson F., (2007)
Journal of Academic Language and Learning. A78-A90.
Description: This paper reports on a pilot peer mentoring program: the Chinese Mentor-Guide Program. The pilot program aimed to improve the university transition experiences of students in China to their Australian university through a multi-layered transition program.
Effects of blended online learning on students' performance in vocational mathematics
Javed S., and Vale C., (2007)
The International Journal of Technology Knowledge and Society, Vol. 2.
Description: This paper reports on a study conducted at the Victoria University TAFE where a mathematics module was offered to students in an on campus delivery setting. The use of online learning to support campus-based instruction was modelled on Coomey and Stephenson’s (2001) paradigm grid for online learning.
Epideictic Discourse: The Rhetoric of Memory, Praise and Hope
McCormack R., (2005)
International Systemic Functional Congress, University of Sydney, 20 July, 2005
Description: This paper will explore the fruitfulness of viewing public discourse through the optic of an ancient, but neglected, concept: epideixis. Within classical rhetoric, epideictic discourse was one of three valorised forms/occasions of public discourse, the other two being forensic discourse and deliberative discourse.
Collaborative Integration of Content and Academic Requirements: Management and Organisation Behaviour at Victoria University
McWilliams, A., & Henderson F., (2006)
In Kennedy, J., & Di Milia, L., (Eds.) 20th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. Queensland, Central Queensland University.
Description: Academic literacy and learning matters at a university level have traditionally been considered to be a separate province of activity from that of discipline specific teaching. This paper presents a subject-level snapshot of this process as it is unfolding at Victoria University in Melbourne.
The Issue of Gender Equity in Computer Science – What Students Say
Miliszewska,I., Barker G., Henderson F., and Sztendur E., (2006)
Journal of Information Technology Education, 5, 107-120
Description: The under-representation and poor retention of women in computing courses at Victoria University is a concern that has continued to defy all attempts to resolve it. This paper reports on the findings from the study.
Who Owns English?
Pancini, G. (2008)
Ngoonjook: Batchelor Journal of Indigenous Education (forthcoming), Batchelor Press, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education N. T.
Description: This paper looks at the historical development of ‘Standard English’ and argues that in both the international context and in some Australian Indigenous communities, the question of ‘who owns English’ or who determines its standards has altered.
Four Quarters
Petsinis T., (2006)
WalkerThompson, Melbourne.
Description: Four Quarters (A volume of poetry) - These poems depict Melbourne, growing up, and the migrant experience through Australian Rules Football.
Facilitating the active interplay between the conceptual and methodological aspects of a higher degree research project - Gowin's Vee heuristic
Sillitoe J and Webb J (2007)
In Enhancing Higher Education Theory and Scholarship Proceedings of the 30th HERDSA Annual Conference. 8-11 Vol 30 Part 2 July pp.519-527
Description: As research students engage with the initial stages of the development of their research design, a difficulty that commonly arises is with the selection, description and understanding of the nature and purposes of the theoretical framework.
Expanding Online Learning: Struggles and Successes
Wong L., and Henderson F., (2006)
Business & Economics Society International Conference, Antibes.
Description: One of the current global trends within universities is to deliver subjects using ‘mixed mode’: a combination of face-to-face and online teaching. At Victoria University this is now policy. For our first-year core accounting subject which is taught in Australia and overseas locations including Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, there are a number of variations of how this occurs and how the online teaching and learning tools are used.