Insights
A diverse collection of open access research, resources, articles and case studies are available here on the NCSEHE website. A selection of materials applicable to current issues in learning and teaching are listed below, and will be continually updated.
Research
- The impact of ‘learning at home’ on the educational outcomes of vulnerable children in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic (Catherine Drane, Lynette Vernon and Sarah O’Shea)
- Opportunity through online learning: Improving student access, participation and success in higher education (Cathy Stone)
- The online student experience: An exploration of first-year university students’ expectations, experiences and outcomes of online education (Melanie Henry)
- Remote student university success: An analysis of policy and practice (Louise Pollard)
- Fair connection to professional careers: Understanding social difference and disadvantage, institutional dynamics and technological opportunities (Erica Southgate)
- Culturally inclusive learning for Indigenous students in a Learning Management System (LMS) (Neal Dreamson, Gary Thomas, Anita Lee Hong and Soyoung Kim)
- Access and barriers to online education for people with disabilities (Mike Kent)
- Mainstreaming captions for online lectures in higher education in Australia: Alternative approaches to engaging with video content (Mike Kent, Katie Ellis, Gwyneth Peaty, Natalie Latter and Kathryn Locke)
- The disability divide: A study into the impact of computing and internet-related technologies on people who are blind or vision impaired (Scott Hollier)
- Connection and inclusion vital for regional and remote students’ mental wellbeing (Nicole Crawford)
- Supporting carers to succeed in Australian higher education (Lisa Andrewartha and Andrew Harvey)
- The implications of COVID-19 for student equity in Australian higher education (Sarah O’Shea, Paul Koshy and Catherine Drane)
- The online student experience: A MAC-ICE thematic structure (Mel Henry)
- Creativity in reactivity: Application of a ‘relationships-first’ strategy in the rapid transition to online learning for Indigenous university students during COVID-19 (Rebecca Bennett, Ashah Tanoa, Bep Uink and Chanelle van den Berg)
- Student support during a pandemic: Insights from those on-the-ground in Indigenous higher education (Braden Hill, Keneasha Lindsay, Tracey Taraia, Grantley Winmar, Ashah Wright, Tilly Casey, Chanelle van den Berg and Rosey Feehon)
- Virtual Collaboration and Groupwork in Online Learning and Assessment (Michael David Sankey and Sheree Roy)
- Survey Report: Beyond COVID-19 (ADCET)
- Students Thriving through COVID (ADCET)
- Saving Our Silver Linings. How We Might Incorporate the COVID Silver Linings Into Our New Normal (ADCET)
- Focus on COVID-19 and online learning in VET (VOCEDplus)
- Longing for connection: University educators creating meaning through sharing experiences of teaching online (Brandi Fox, Margaret Bearman, Robin Bellingham, Andrea North-Samardzic, Simona Scarparo, Darci Taylor, Mathew Krehl Edward Thomas, Michael Volkov)
- VET student outcomes 2020: impact of COVID-19 on domestic students (Ian White)
- What VET can offer to COVID-19 youth unemployment recovery (Joanne Waugh and Michelle Circelli)
- Balancing the COVID-19 Disruption to Undergraduate Learning and Assessment with an Academic Student Support Package: Implications for Student Achievement and Engagement (Natalie Lloyd, Rebecca Sealey and Murray Logan)
- The student experience of online learning in Australian higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic (Linley Martin)
Articles
- Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-COVID-19 (Michael A. Peters et al.)
- Supporting student wellbeing during COVID-19: Tips from regional and remote Australia (Nicole Crawford)
- Low SES students at the COVID crossroads: Persist with digital resource deficiency or risk public transport exposure (Maria Raciti)
- Beyond the COVID-19 online pivot: Why we need cheaper and more inclusive online resources (Sarah Lambert)
- Staying ‘present’ when teaching from a distance (Cathy Stone)
- My children… think it’s cool that Mum is a uni student: Women with caring responsibilities studying online (Cathy Stone and Sarah O’Shea)
- Supporting part-time and online learners is key to reducing university dropout rates (Tim Pitman and Gavin Moodie)
- Older, online and first: Recommendations for retention and success (Cathy Stone and Sarah O’Shea)
- Universities need to train lecturers in online delivery, or they risk students dropping out (Pauline Taylor-Guy and Anne-Marie Chase, Australian Council for Educational Research)
- New evidence: Stark inequity of online access for rural and remote students (Cathy Stone and Monica Davis)
- COVID-19 has cooled low-SES parents’ access to ‘hot knowledge’ about supporting their university-bound children. But are ‘warm knowledge’ solutions up to the challenge? (Naomi Alberti and Maria Raciti)
- More help needed for vulnerable learners in the age of COVID-19 school closures (Catherine Drane, Lynette Vernon and Sarah O’Shea)
- Changes to career advice needed now more than ever (Sarah O’Shea and Olivia Groves)
- Helping your students to look after their mental health (Ashley Willcox)
- We can put city and country people on more equal footing at uni — the pandemic has shown us how (Robyn Eversole)
- Teaching intelligence: assisting those who lost out on learning (Anna McKie)
- A chance for change in teaching and learning design (Rhiannon Lee White)
- Will Covid reset how universities help socially disadvantaged students? (Anna McKie)
- Eight essential elements of digital literacy (Jo Coldwell-Neilson)
- Is the Lecture dead? (Shirley Alexander, Sarah O’Shea, Marcus O’Donnell, Sally Male and Amy Wong)
- Understanding attrition among regional and remote students (Janine Delahunty)
- In the rush to get content on-line cultural safety can be overlooked (Andrea Simpson and Kim Alley)
- COVID-19 has changed university teaching – here are five things to stick with in the future (Paul Cowell)
- Six learning activities that work, really work, on-line (Elizabeth Johnson)
- Digital learning is real-world learning. That’s why blended on-campus and online study is best (Elizabeth Johnson)
- On-line labs enhance student learning (James Harland)
- Post-COVID Syndrome (Danielle Kutchel)
- Lingering Impact of COVID-19 (Danielle Kutchel)
- Ways to help HRD research students isolated by COVID-19 (Trina Myers, Wasana Bandara, Sharon Altena and Rebecca Evans)
- How the pandemic is hurting university students’ mental health (Emmanuel Ojo, Annie Burger, Anthony J Onwuegbuzie, Bryan Jason Bergsteedt, Samantha Adams and Talitha Crowley)
- How to really engage students online (Ameena Payne and Alison Torn)
- Support for teachers key to improving literacy during COVID-19 and beyond (Amy Berry and Jeaniene Spink)
- Teaching on-line in COVID-19 times (Chris Campbell, Kathryn Coleman and Melissa Cain)
Resources
- NCSEHE Focus: Successful outcomes for regional and remote students in Australian higher education (NCSEHE)
- Building Legacy and Capacity workshop outcomes and recommendations: Higher education participation and completion of regional and remote students (NCSEHE)
- Good practice in online teacher education (Janet Dyment, Jill Downing, Cathy Stone, Naomi Milthorpe, Tracey Muir, Elizabeth Freeman and Belinda Hopwood, University of Tasmania)
- At the COAL FACE: a guide to active learning in multi-campus, multi-modal and distributed learning environments (Janet Buchan, Kristin Wicking, John Smithson and Melanie Birks, James Cook University)
- Get Prepared: Supporting equity students in the transition to university (University of Sydney)
- Thriving through COVID-19: Reflections from Tertiary Students with Disability at a National Online Forum (ADCET)
- How to shape digital culture in higher education (Wonkhe)
- Australian university mental health framework (Orygen)
- Student Well-being (ADCET)
- Staff well-being (ADCET)
- Podcast: Mentoring during the Time of COVID-19 (Debbie Hindle, ADCET)
- Podcast: The global project – Breaking down barriers to higher education pre and post-COVID-19 (Matt Brett, ADCET)
- THE Podcast: Student employability post-pandemic (Anton Muscatelli and Nancy Gleason)
Presentations and webinars
- NCSEHE panel discussion: Strategies for supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of students of colour and First Nations students
- Online learning and the WPO ‘Pivot’: In conversation with Cathy Stone and Kylie Austin (Sarah O’Shea, Cathy Stone and Kylie Austin)
- The WPO ‘Pivot’ — Shifting Widening Participation Outreach activities to a remote learning environment (Kylie Austin and Meg Smith)
- Five meaningful minutes: Small changes to support psychological needs, wellbeing and motivation online in 2020 (Lydia Woodyatt)
- Three Essentials in moving online (Cathy Stone and Nicole Crawford)
- Supporting students’ wellbeing during COVID-19 (Nicole Crawford and Cathy Stone)
- Mainstreaming captions for online lectures in higher education in Australia (Mike Kent and Katie Ellis)
- Participation in higher education online: Demographics, motivators and grit (Cathy Cupitt)
- Higher education participation and completion of regional and remote students (Cathy Stone, Karen Nelson and Nadine Zacharias)
- Mental wellbeing for equity practitioners and university staff (Lydia Woodyatt)
- Understanding attrition: What can be done to reduce student drop-outs post pandemic? (Times Higher Education)
- ADCET Webinar: Online learning for Deaf and hard of hearing students, learnings from COVID-19 (Cathy Easte, Bobbie Blackson, Gary Kerridge)
- ADCET Webinar: COVID-19 & Beyond: Perspectives from University Students (Debbie Hindle, Tim Pitman, Ashley Willcox, Fabian Jones, Damon Tyerman and Rachel Brooke)
- Widening participation in higher education in the Covid-19 age: more urgent but more difficult (Peter Scott)
- Needed Now 2021 Session 6: Online learning – what have we learned? (Sally Kift)
Information sheets
- Opportunity through online learning: Improving student access, participation and success in higher education: National Guidelines (Cathy Stone)
- Three essentials in moving online (Cathy Stone and Nicole Crawford)
- Supporting student wellbeing during COVID-19: Tips from regional and remote Australia (Nicole Crawford)
Projects
- My Story: Vlogging the “new normal” for higher education
- Macquarie University LEAP-Links (Digital Literacy): Developing the ICT competencies of regional and remote low-SES students
- Click-on Mentors
- Virtual Mentoring Potential: exploring possibilities for extending the reach of campus-based mentoring programs
- Building regional student awareness, aspiration and engagement using digital technologies
Case studies
- My Story — Student Voice: Takura Matenga
- My Story — Student Voice: Farhia Mwechiwa
- My Story — Student Voice: Ana Larsen
- My Story — Student Voice: Abbey Sullivan
- My Story — Student Voice: Raymart Walker
- My Story — Student Voice: Jeevan Kuller
- My Story — Student Voice: Monica Dinh
- My Story — Student Voice: Ashley Willcox
- My Story — Student Voice: Helen Miller
- My Story — Student Voice: Karlie James
- My Story — Student Voice: Reflections on 2020 from the NCSEHE vloggers
- Virtual Mentoring Potential: exploring possibilities for extending the reach of campus-based mentoring programs (Samantha McMahon, Ashleigh Johnstone, Brendon Newton, Jason Gillard, Valerie Harwood, Kate Senior, and Amy Priestly)
- Lessons learned during COVID-19: stories from Atieh Fallahi and Donna Rooney (Mais Fatayer and Ariane Wicks)
- Lessons learned during COVID-19: stories from academics (Mais Fatayer)
- Lessons learned during COVID-19, Part 3 (Mais Fatayer)
Other useful links
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) social and emotional wellbeing resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders – social content assets (Australian Government Department of Health)
- Survey Report: Beyond COVID-19 (Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training [ADCET])
- Ensuring academic integrity and assessment security with redesigned online delivery (Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University)
- iBobbly mental health app for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians (Black Dog Institute)
- Guidelines: Responding to the needs of staff and students with disability in COVID-19 return-to-campus planning for Australia’s tertiary institutions (ADCET and National Disability Coordination Officer Program [NDCO])
- Coping with Change (Debbie Hindle for ADCET)
- Managing work and study in a time of COVID-19 (Orygen)
- Coping during coronavirus (ReachOut.com)
- Going Online: R(e)imagining Teaching and Learning webinar series — Responses to webinar questions (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency)
- MCERA briefing paper: Education and COVID-19 (Media Centre for Education Research Australia)
- Online Exams (Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training)
- COVID-19: 3 ways to engage effectively with schools (Sonal Singh, University of Technology Sydney)
- COVID-19 support and guidance (The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) — frequently asked questions (ADCET)
- Online learning good practice (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency)
- Moving HE online: Tips, resources and support (OneHE)
- Contemporary approaches to university teaching — Free MOOC (Council of Australasian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching)
- The Guide to Fostering Asynchronous Online Discussion in Higher Education (Fostering OnLine Discussion)
- Accessible Technology for Learning (Lexdis)
- The Learning to Teach Online project (University of New South Wales)
- The TEL Edvisor community
- Thrive Online: Information for online students (Griffith University)
- Get dressed and set goals: some routines not to break if coronavirus means you have to work from home (Paula Brough)
- AHEAD Online Conference recordings (AHEAD Ireland)
- Teaching intelligence: how to take your classes online (Catherine Shea Sanger)
- COVID-19 Information (National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes)
- The future of higher education in a disruptive world (KPMG)
- COVID-19 Updates and Resources (QS Quacquarelli Symonds)
- Full-COVID-19-Factsheet (E-Mental Health in Practice)