Recent Swedish visitor Anna Palmquist spent a few weeks shadowing information systems lecturer Mike Gregory and was impressed with the potential for on-line video snippets to enhance face to face teaching.

Face to face teaching is the standard at the University of Borås, where Anna takes her informatics students beyond programming to consider human factors through systems theory, to work hands-on alongside companies in program project development, to take a change management perspective, and to use analysis and design skills.

Anna Palmquist (second from right) with lecturer Mike Gregory and Melissa Brooks and Kathy Ramm from the International Office

Borås has had an exchange relationship with CQUniversity for more than a decade, so Anna took the opportunity to visit Rockhampton Campus during a quiet period in her teaching commitments.

She was delighted to find herself experiencing Queensland's beautiful winter weather and arranged to visit tourist highlights in the far north of the State.

While in Rockhampton, Anna visited Mount Archer and saw her first kookaburra. She also got to see the 'canetoads' versus the 'cockroaches' on the TV for her first State of Origin rugby league experience.

The University of Borås offers education in Library and Information Studies, Business and Informatics, Fashion and Textile Studies, Behavioural and Education Sciences, Engineering and Health Sciences. The campus is located in the centre of the city and has 15,000 students and 650 employees. The University of Borås has some exciting research projects, including ‘Smart textiles'. Cloth which changes colours when the mobile phone rings, garments which measure muscular frequency and curtains which become lights in the dark are just a few examples.