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• Assess: Towards effective feedback practices in Teacher Education
• Connect: Celebrating 50 years of teacher education at RMIT
• Directions: Learning Spaces
• E-Learning: Using Blended Learning in Textile Design
• Evaluate: Re5 Principle of Teaching and Learning
• Teach: Studio Physics

Assess

FEATURE: Towards effective feedback practices in Teacher Education by Gloria Latham

The School of Education reviews the role of feedback - how critical it is to each student's learning process.

Articles

Providing Feedback to Students by Anthony Bedford

Connect

FEATURE:Celebrating 50 years of teacher education at RMIT by Annette Gough

A look at the history of some of the institutes that were absorbed by RMIT - including the Coburg Teachers' College and Phillip Institute of Technology.

Articles

WIL and Neighbourhood Watch: A real life case study by Rod McCrohan

Directions

FEATURE: Learning Spaces by Julie Roberts

Explores the concept of Learning Spaces.

E-Learning

FEATURE: Using Blended Learning in Textile Design by Emma Lynas, Verity Prideaux, Jenny Underwood

Three academics from the BA Textile Design program at RMIT Brunswick campus wrote about their experience of using blended learning in their teaching for a conference paper.

Articles

Understanding what influences acceptance of e-learning technologies by Thembi Mason, Professor Richard Blythe and Associate Professor Barbara De La Harpe

Evaluate

FEATURE: Re5 Principle of Teaching and Learning by Heather Fehring

Qualities of good teaching: relevance, energetic, enthusiastic, excitement, enjoyment, expertise.

Teach

FEATURE:Studio Physics by Ken McGregor

Physics lectures are being supplemented by a studio-based learning environment where the students are given problems in the form of equipment, making the problems more 'tangible' rather than simply paper-based.