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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Live overseas chat a regular classroom tool 

Published on 23 July, 2009 

Thanks to Skype technology, CQUniversity's Learning Management (Japanese) students are getting used to regular chats with students in Japan, to hone their language skills.

The next phase, in Term 3, is for other Learning Management students to learn how to teach English as a foreign language.

These future teachers will be interacting with students in Japan, China and Korea.

PhotoID:7531, This week's Skype class in action
This week's Skype class in action

Meanwhile, the students specialising in Japanese have been able to follow on-screen instructions to focus their language training.

LINK here for a VIDEO interview with one of the Learning Management students

For example, they may have to use Japanese to describe a map reference or to explain a photograph, as they interact with their overseas partner.

Sometimes they just enjoy chatting about what they have seen on visits to Japan or what they would like to see on future visits.