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Dr Sam Prince, nominee for young Australian of the Year and founder of One Disease at a Time, addresses students at Notre Dame about entrepreneurship, philanthropy and pursuing your dreams.

The School of Business (Sydney) at The University of Notre Dame Australia is currently seeking guest speakers for its Workplace Insights seminars. Previous speakers have included senior people from such diverse organisations as Microsoft, IBM, Coca Cola Amatil, Career One and the Australian Wallabies. If you’d like to discuss your experiences in business with tomorrow’s … Continue reading Call for guest speakers →

Check out The Sydney Morning Herald’s Business & Education section (attached) today. Jessica Shepherd (B Commerce, PR) is profiled. Jessica is currently completing the Innovation and Entrepreneurship elective (taught by Mark Hornshaw) as part of her PR major. Her studies have helped inspire her to start her own business venture. Congratulations Jessica!

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Students in the public relations program at the School of Business (Sydney) are receiving a taste of what it’s like to work for real clients this semester.  As part of their major assessment, students have been provided with briefs from three not-for-profit organisations and asked to develop online public relations plans which they will later … Continue reading Notre Dame e-PR students get a taste of client relations →

(or, for you Digital Immigrants, “Is the quality of writing being degraded by electronic communication?”) Do you need to converse with a ‘Gen Yer’ and need to translate plain English to texting lingo or vice versa? Not to worry, there’s a website (http://www.lingo2word.com/translate.php) that can do it for you. Apparently, such is the divide between … Continue reading S d quality of ritN bn degraded by electronic Coms? →

How do you like to learn? Do you prefer a visual, aural, read/write or a kinesthetic approach? I’ve been working in academia for several years now and that’s a question that I keep coming back to explore. This week during a professional development seminar we discussed the importance of analysing our learning preferences so that … Continue reading Learning styles →

In today’s class we were asked to consider how the characteristics of our students might affect how they learn and what an ideal environment might look like for them. Prensky (2001) wrote that “today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors,” that they are all Digital Natives – “native speakers of the … Continue reading Digital natives debate →

I’m taking a class this week - Using ICT in a Tertiary Environment. It’s a professional development workshop for university teachers who want to learn how to better incorporate information and communications technologies into their courses. Our first homework assignment is to write a blog post on ‘Higher education in a Web 2.0 World: What … Continue reading Higher education in a Web 2.0 world →