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This paper presents a personal perspective on the evolution of ICT education at university level in Australia. It focuses on the development of IT courses in Institutes of Technology, which had a real-life orientation and recruited their academic staff with this in mind. Issues relating to real-life learning are discussed with a warning on the need for vigilance against over-stressing the benefits of ‘real-world’ as opposed to ‘mere theory’. The paper approaches this discussion by considering issues under the headings: why, what and how.
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Juliff, P. (2005). Real-Life Learning: Why, What and How?. In: van Weert, T., Tatnall, A. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies and Real-Life Learning. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 182. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25997-X_1
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