Australian Education Union

The organisation that represents Australian public school, early childhood and TAFE teachers, education leaders and education support staff industrially and professionally.

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TAFE TEACHER

Resisting the digital automation of teaching

COVID-19 has certainly pushed teachers and technology into the headlines. In the short term, technologies such as Zoom, Google Docs and Microsoft Teams are proving invaluable ways for educators to continue doing their jobs as best as possible.
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THE EDUCATOR

Mixing methods

A creative approach to teaching is offering solutions to students at all levels of learning.

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TAFE TEACHER

Zombie skills sets resurrected as micro credentials

The aphorism ‘No good deed goes unpunished’ has a little known corollary in Australian tertiary education ‘No bad policy goes undoubled down’. And so it is with the Australian Government pushing micro credentials onto higher education under the cover of responding to the covid19 crisis.