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2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Enabling Teaching and Student Experience

I am honoured to be recognised and awarded the 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award (Winner) for Excellence in Enabling Teaching and Student Experience at Griffith University. These awards are conferred to recognise and honour outstanding performance by individuals and teams and acknowledge those who have gone above and beyond their usual duties to provide exceptional service …

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Bhutan: A Small Nation, Big Vision

Gross National Happiness Gross National Happiness (GNH) is a unique development philosophy pioneered by Bhutan, emphasising holistic well-being over purely economic growth. Coined by Bhutan’s fourth King, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, in the 1970s, GNH focuses on balancing material progress with spiritual, emotional, and environmental well-being. Investment in Cryptocurrency In a surprising turn, Bhutan …

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Comparison of Learning Management Systems across 40 Australian Universities

The above charts illustrate types of the Learning Management Systems (LMS) used across 40 Australian Universities as of 6 October 2017.  Among the platforms Blackboard is the most popular LMS with 23 Australian Universities using it as their core learning management systems.   12 of these Australian Universities are using Moodle. Three universities (University of Sydney, …

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EndNote and Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac: Compatibility and Recommendations

Microsoft launched Office 2016 for Mac on 9 July 2015, which is available to Office 365 subscribers.  While the new Office for Mac provides users with some wonderful new functionalities it is not a good news for EndNote users. EndNote is currently not compatible with office 2016 on Mac. We highly advise EndNote and Mac …

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Digital Privacy: Issues and Challenges in Bhutan

Web based technology is increasingly growing. Internet and Social Media is a great place to share news, connect with friends and do online shopping. The speed of the Internet has led us to be flexible and changing in life style and how we communicate with each other. Facebook is the world’s most popular social networking website. It …

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Academic domain of Educational Technologies and Non-economic Profitisation

I am glad to have invited on board as one of the 100 co-authors on a joint article on global perspective towards education technologies (ET). This study explores non-economic profitisation of scholarship involved with the academic domain of ET. The best part of the article is its innovative study approach – 100 ET scholars across the globe …

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Cloud-based learning and teaching

Emerging technologies are fast growing. In teaching and learning information and communication technologies (ICT) have advanced the use of video conferencing, search engine databases, cloud and mobile computing, and other technologies in education contexts, with no exception to Social Media as an emerging technology in learning and teaching. In today’s world, as learning is becoming increasingly digital, …

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