Today's FE and skills practitioners need to embed digital skills in their teaching, but many lack the confidence, capabilities, and often the support, to do so. Here’s how to get your staff started on the right path.

In a report released this week, the Foundation for Young Australians claims that up to 70% of young people are currently preparing for jobs that will no longer exist in the future.

7 Skills Students Will Always Need
by Jennifer Rita Nichols
Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post.
As educators, we constantly strive to prepare our students for the ‘real world’ that exists around them.

To what extent is this a new model of learning in a digital age? How are private corporations employing old rhetoric to advance new avenues into public education?

James Billington helped usher the world's largest library into the digital age. The Library of Congress says he will step down on Jan. 1, 2016.

Last week I was part of a small team that met with some of the applicants for the technology start-ups category of Jisc’s 2015 Summer of Student Innovation co-design challenges.  Our brief was to carve out a shortlist of really...

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"In this age of outcomes measurement, many academic librarians are focused—and rightly so—on making sure they best serve students. Yet students are not the only population of end users on an academic campus. Faculty, too, are conduits not only to students but to library users in their own right. As well, studies of faculty attitudes such as Ithaka’s often show that, even as faculty increasingly depend on library-brokered online access to expensive databases and electronic journals, the off-site availability of modern resources may leave many faculty members less aware of the crucial role of the library in their and their students’ workflow."

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It’s not the e-reader that will be driving future books sales, it’s the phone; how publishers are rethinking books for the small screen.

The finalists for the Miles Franklin Literary Award give insights into the creation of their very different novels about "Australian life in any of its phases".