Staff development at RMIT: bottom-up work serviced by top-down investment and policy

dc.creator	Carmel McNaught
dc.creator	Paul Kennedy
dc.date	2000-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:18:10Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:18:10Z
dc.identifier	10.3402/rlt.v8i1.11973
dc.identifier	2156-7069
dc.identifier	2156-7077
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c131712019a443b89a0fbcffab18d8f2
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/19306
dc.description	What is the business of a university in the 1990s and 2000s? Quantity and quality are both important considerations in modern universities as they seek to maintain important intellectual and physical spaces for their staff to pursue creative research and development, while at the same time needing to provide teaching for escalating numbers of students in all courses in order to shore up funding. These student cohorts have become increasingly diverse (Mclnnis, James and McNaught, 1995) with more part-time students and students from a greater variety of backgrounds. Flexible modes of delivery have been widely viewed as the prime way of meeting the challenges posed by this diversity. There has been a fair amount of naive equating of flexible delivery with production of online materials ('Plug them into the Web') and insufficient attention to the relationship between flexible modes of operation for students, the use of communication and information technologies, and the design of educationally sound learning environments (Kennedy and McNaught, 1997; Reeves and Reeves, 1997). However, there is no doubt that communication and information technologies will be a major part of future university planning, as several recent reports make clear (e.g. Yetton et al., 1997).
dc.language	English
dc.relation	http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/11973
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2156-7069
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2156-7077
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Research in Learning Technology, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2000)
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Staff development at RMIT: bottom-up work serviced by top-down investment and policy
dc.type	article