Mums and dads are mostly in the dark about their child’s online activities and are avoiding crucial conversations about privacy and securities practices, a new survey shows. Polling 600 Australian parents across the country, the Norton by Symantec survey reveals ...

An education specialist is encouraging teachers to become more comfortable with technology in the classroom and allow students to take notes on laptops and tablets. Associate director of the Victoria Institute at Victoria University, Claire Brown said teachers have to ...

One of Australia’s leading MOOC providers has launched Teach-a-thon – a hackathon for educators who want to run their own creative online courses. Embracing the spirit of a hackathon, an intensive, short term collaboration with software designers, OpenLearning will kick ...

A leading national jobsite for education has launched a new smart phone app that will allow principals to book relief teachers more easily and cost-effectively. The new app, Tap for Teacher, launched this week on teachers.on.net allows schools to contact ...

Charles Sturt University has launched a MOOC aimed to help students prepare to enter tertiary education. CSU project manager Craig Billingham said the What's Uni Like? MOOC is being promoted to Australian universities, other higher education providers, and to high ...

The team behind a new research centre the University of Melbourne launched last week has pledged to provide a cohesive, evidence-based approach to the evaluation of teacher training. The launch of the Teacher Education Effectiveness Research Hub – to be ...

The state of a young person’s psychological health can greatly impact both wellbeing and academic outcomes. From this concept grew the educational philosophy known as positive education, which was introduced in Australia six years ago and has been challenging traditional models ever ...

Former Australian Federal Police cybercrime expert Alastair MacGibbon has officially stepped into his new role as children’s e-safety commissioner. The Office of the Children’s e-Safety Commissioner was created as a result government surveys that revealed up to 1 in 5 Australian ...

Gifted and talented school kids have taken time out of their holidays to attend university. The Holiday Enrichment Workshop Series hosted by the University of Southern Queensland in partnership with BRAINways Education, ran over two days (June 29-30), consisting of ...

In a quest to boost Tasmania’s education outcomes and lift participation rates, the University of Tasmania today launched the Children’s University Tasmania. The project was launched today with education and training minister Jeremy Rockliff at the Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, ...