Now we set up lecture maps so that students can pick the topics they need to focus on, we set exercises or quizzes and plant interesting websites for them to review, and we build in questions they can discuss through on-line discussion groups. We all have to keep up with the way students live these days and what they expect, but it's also part of our continuous improvement of teaching and learning. Our flexible learning conversion is going well partly because we have long-established systems and the right staff culture to handle this kind of change'. The digital world is expanding Wollongong's content as well as its methods. Education students take new units in computers on the classroom and budding lawyers learn how to tap into massive databases of judgements from courts around the world.
Business students take majors in e-commerce.
Courses as disparate as engineering and music, graphic design and statistics are being changed, sometimes almost transformed, to prepare graduates for changing workplaces. For many students the e-world is the content. We're not doing this just to keep our students and employers happy', says Gerard Sutton. We've long had the communications and information technologies targeted as our biggest single strategic growth area. We're developing new courses to fit in with our research priorities and with the long-term business partnerships we have with firms like Nortel, Telstra, CSC and Motorola'.