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Transitioning to university can feel daunting, but The Art of Re-Learning: A Guide to Academic Readiness transforms that challenge into an opportunity for growth. Drawing on research and a varied career in education, NAEEA National Teaching Excellence Award winner Liam Frost-Camilleri offers a comprehensive guide to mastering university-level study while fostering resilience, self-awareness, and confidence.

Readers will explore essential concepts such as self-efficacy, independent learning, and cultural competence, alongside practical advice on researching, plagiarism, and tackling group work. This textbook also supports emotional and mental well-being, offering strategies to effectively manage anxiety, cultivate resilience, and persevere through challenges. Build your academic independence by discovering the type of learner you are and creating an empowering learner identity that helps you meet university expectations with confidence and purpose.

With its practical activities, emphasis on reflection and easy reference guide to strategies, this resource also serves as a valuable companion for enabling programs, providing essential reading for study skills courses targeted to support non-traditional learners. Grounded in the concept of “re-learning,” this guide encourages students to reflect compassionately on their habits, challenge preconceptions, and develop lifelong skills that promote growth.

Design plays a crucial role in our daily lives, influencing our perceptions of products and how we interact with them. A well-designed product can enhance its functionality, usability, and appeal, making it more desirable to consumers. Design-related industries contribute AU$ 67.5 billion per annum to the Australian economy. In a global economy, success in many industries depends on controlling the intangible aspects of products. In the legal context, a design is defined as the visual appearance of a product, including its shape, configuration, pattern, and ornamentation. Designs law seeks to protect the originality and uniqueness of designs, preventing others from copying or reproducing them without permission. Overall, designs law in Australia aims to encourage and protect originality and design innovation while also balancing the interests of designers, businesses, and consumers.

Throughout the book, the reader is provided with practical guidance and illustrative examples to help readers navigate the complex world of designs law. With its comprehensive coverage and clear, accessible writing style, Designs Law in Australia is an essential resource for legal practitioners, students, and anyone interested in this vital area of intellectual property law.

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Mathematical Reasoning and Investigation is designed to help you develop the ability to use mathematics to solve the kinds of problems that don't come with answers in the back of the book. We like to think of it as a mathematics book for people who think they're not good at mathematics. The work will be useful for anyone wanting to develop their own skills in reasoning and problem solving using mathematics, and for teachers and preservice teachers hoping to help their students to develop these same skills.

This book will provide new and experienced teachers, tutors, educators, mentors and supervisors ready access to current and future-focused thinking about how to design and implement learning and teaching experiences that work in the context of vocational education and training, in the workplace, workshop or classroom. The practical guide makes dynamic links between theory and practice in explaining the process of designing for learning. From writing a learning programme to engaging with students, designing assessments and implementing a range of teaching strategies, the writers use an approach that recognises learning as an integrated process of engaged learning and experience. The text is designed to support teaching as a creative and continuous process of designing, delivering, assessing learning and evaluating teaching. It can be used by educators and those associated with learning in the workplace as a reference and a source of ideas to help guide their thinking and practice. The resource is designed to dip in and out of and to enhance programmes of learning in and for the workplace.

The OER includes case studies of 5 families from a variety of backgrounds in metropolitan and regional Queensland (QLD), New South Wales (NSW), and Victoria (VIC), Australia. Case studies have been popular in nursing to help students bring their learning to life and enhance their critical thinking. However, often case studies appear in one unit or one particular content area to aid students learning for a particular condition or point in time.

Taking a transformational, place-based approach, the OER case studies for health are set within metropolitan and regional areas, so learning is contextual and relatable. Case studies increase in complexity so that students can be introduced to and ‘get to know’ the families from their first year of study. As students progress through their studies, they meet the families again in different, often more complex scenarios. The families experience a variety of political and socio-economic circumstances, which helps students to learn about various healthcare contexts, build knowledge and understanding about the families’ circumstances from a holistic, person-centred, interprofessional perspective, and engage at a deeper level.

Educators can integrate each family case study into multiple units across health programmes. This encourages students to learn through the lens of the unit they are studying while drawing on information learnt in previous units. Each OER chapter contains opportunities for students to engage with the material, complete activities and access further resources suggested by the authors. Case studies for health, research and practice provides students with an opportunity to develop skills in critical thinking, reflection and discourse, as well as clinical skills. Including this OER in health curricula will support the development of a broad spectrum of knowledge, skills and professionalism, which students can transfer to various healthcare contexts as they build their professional identities. formation learnt in previous units. Each OER chapter contains opportunities for students to engage with the material, completing activities and accessing further resources suggested by the authors., Case studies for health research and practice provides students with an opportunity to develop skills in critical thinking, reflection and discourse as well as the development of clinical skills. The inclusion of this OER in health curricula will support the development of a broad spectrum of knowledge, skills and professionalism which can be transferred to a variety of healthcare contexts as students build their professional identities.

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From Search to Source: Finding Reliable Information is designed to support students through their learning journey at Southern Cross University. This book scaffolds students from a basic to a more advanced understanding of how to structure, explore and apply searching strategies and frameworks to locate and evaluate reliable and relevant information. Information and tips about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools are embedded into each chapter. The topics covered in the book include: where to find information, a guide to information resources, search strategies, levels of evidence and search frameworks, advanced literature searching, evaluating the information, and referencing. While the content of this book has been designed to align with the principles of the Southern Cross Model, the media-rich, interactive online components facilitate self-directed learning in any tertiary university context.

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“Introduction to Business Law in Papua New Guinea” is an introductory text designed to support students enrolled in LEGL1007 Introduction to the Business Law of Papua New Guinea at Southern Cross University. The book is structured into five parts: Part 1 provides an introduction to studying business law, including writing legal essays and problem questions; Part 2 covers negligence; Part 3 discusses contract law; Part 4 addresses consumer law; and Part 5 focuses on agency within the Papua New Guinea legal system.

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The concept of a braided river – he awa whiria – inspired the creation by pioneering educational researcher Professor Angus Macfarlane of a framework connecting Indigenous and Western perspectives.

The He Awa Whiria framework has been used to support bicultural partnership approaches to policy development, research initiatives and practices in a broad range of sectors, such as tertiary institutions, iwi locations, private corporations and government ministries. Through the 12 chapters in this book, the authors explain their rationale for adopting He Awa Whiria, and detail how they have operationalised it in their respective fields of expertise. They report on the positive impacts that the framework has had at each stage of their work – from the conceptual design stage (which includes thinking and planning activities), during the application phase (which includes implementation and monitoring), through to the conclusion of activities (which includes reflection and review).

Providing both an overview of the concept of He Awa Whiria and ‘real world’ case studies, this new volume illustrates the importance and value of drawing on two rich streams of knowledge – mātauranga Māori and Western science.

This interactive, open-access textbook provides a comprehensive and engaging exploration of the challenges and opportunities facing our oceans, with a strong Australian focus and global relevance. It integrates ocean science, sustainability, policy and community perspectives to build ocean literacy and support the development of a sustainable Blue Economy. Drawing on contemporary research, international and national frameworks (including the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Decade of Ocean Science and Australian marine strategies), the textbook examines key themes such as climate change and ocean solutions, food security, biodiversity conservation, cleaner oceans, coastal resilience, ocean equity and Indigenous empowerment. Rich multimedia content, including interactive activities, videos and podcasts, are embedded throughout to support active learning and real-world application. Designed for students, educators, practitioners and the broader community, this resource bridges science, policy and practice to inform decision-making and foster collective stewardship of Australia’s marine environment.

An easy to read introduction for students and researchers when undertaking scoping or systematic reviews. The book leads readers through the stages of conducting a review, such as planning, searching, screening, appraising, synthesising, reporting and publishing. Includes H5P activities and is based on current best practices of methodology and reporting.

NOTE: This version is no longer being updated. For current version please go to Studium.