Hi Roland and colleagues,<br><br>Those who do have a research interest might find this new Australian network from ACER useful - <a href="http://dern.org.au/">http://dern.org.au/</a> <br><br><i>"Digital Education Research Network (DERN) is a network of researchers
interested in research about education and the use of digital
technologies to improve teaching and learning. It focuses mainly on
Australian research although not exclusively. DERN is looking for
research <em><strong>evidence</strong></em> about good educational and
learning practices. Please join us to share your insights into and
knowledge of research into teaching and learning using digital
technologies."</i><br><br>As for the benefits of a further degree - I guess there are better ways to get a better return financially, but it does have benefits it terms of a wider understanding. Though Stephen Heppell pointed out that the average number of times a PhD thesis is borrowed from a research library is (from memory) about 2. And one of these is probably the author's mother...<br>
<br>Maybe what's missing is a process to make research findings more useful to school practice, and a willingness/incentive for schools to take on serious research. For example - the rollout of computers for Years 9-12 across an entire country under the "Pennies from Kevin" DER scheme seems to be an ideal scenario for some research (esp given the massive amount of longitudinal data held by school systems). But this would be well down the priority list for most schools as there are many more crucial tasks needed to keep the school operating (and a shortage of people to do them). <br>
<br>But .. there has to be some way to make the act of research more relevant to school operation and teaching practice in our subject areas. But perhaps that starts to stray off-topic.<br><br>kp<br><br>Ken Price<br>Principal Education Officer, eCentre, DoE Tasmania / President, TASITE <a href="http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au">www.tasite.tas.edu.au</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
No Ken and it cost me a fortune for a nice bound research book. I showed my small kids where it lives at Monash Uni when I went there for a visit. I am tempted to try for a PhD but after a strong cup of tea, the feeling generally goes away. Two decades ago I was a research scientist with Orica, you'll probably laugh if you knew what division I worked in. Catch me over a beer one day.<br>
<br>Seriously though, I have enormous respect for those on this list that have done the hard years and extended their studies to undertake some serious PhD research and work at the cutting edge of teaching. I just spent all of today doing work for VicRoads for a paper I'll probably publish with STAV about an Engineers in Schools program that I ran last year. Am also editing a video of this work. It is enough to keep me distracted. <br>
<br>Has anybody else on this list got a research interest?<br><br>Regards Roland<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 March 2010 09:05, Kent Beveridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>hmmm...M.Ed...did they pay you more when you got that? </div>
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<div><div><div></div><div>With a puff of magical ethernet logic, the virtually networked world of wireless, cloud computing has drifted over the topology landscape, smothering any need to look for lost token rings or 50 ohm coaxial terminators. For my Dip.Ed and M.Ed, I frequently
tossed in a citation from the UN International Charter of Human Rights to fill a spot in my reference list (not quite the same as our local legislative brew folks!) ..
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