David C. Rich

Collaboration and the Successful Use of Information and Communications Technologies in Teaching and Learning Geography in Higher Education.

Collaboration may help secure many of the benefits of, and overcome many of the obstacles to, the transformation of learning and teaching that is currently in prospect, arising partly from the pervasive effects of information and communications technologies. Benefits accrue from interactions and sharing between students and between staff, and in developing teaching resources, creating learning-resources databases, and delivering courses. International collaboration has additional dimensions: larger scale and diversity of activity; wider cross-cultural considerations; and international student programmes. Major collaborative innovations face four groups of issues: challenges to established institutional structures and practices; re-allocations of funding; adherence to agreed technical standards; and legal impediments. These are more complex at the international level at which the International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education will operate.

Restructuring of Australian higher education: information technology in geography teaching and learning

Abstract Australian higher education has experienced substantial change since the early 1980s, with a transition to mass higher education, closer alignment to national political objectives, increasing Federal Government control, a growing emphasis on ‘quality’ and ‘value for money’, and organisational restructuring with manifestations ranging from the creation of the Unified National System to the merger or closure of individual departments. At the same time, evolving conceptions of learning and new patterns of demand, with growing emphasis on lifelong learning and flexible access to education, pose new challenges for educators. Now, the policies of the new Federal Coalition Government are likely to engender further change, with growing differentiation of universities a probable outcome. Information technology has so far played a relatively peripheral role in teaching and learning in higher education, but important changes there, including rapid shifts in the relationship between cost and computing power,...

Why cities change : urban development and economic change in Sydney

1. Themes in urban development and economic change, David C. Rich, Richard V. Cardew and John V. Langdale 2. Finance, the capital market and Sydneys development, Maurice T. Daly 3. Office suburbanisation: a new era? Ian Alexander 4. Telecommunications in Sydney: towards an information economy, John V. Langdale 5. Structural and spatial change in manufacturing, David C. Rich 6. Manufacturing and industrial property development in Sydney, Richard V. Cardew and David C. Rich 7. Organisational and locational change in Sydneys wholesaling industry, Ellis Nugent, David C. Rich and Peter L. Simons 8. Retailing in Sydney, Richard V. Cardew and Peter L. Simons 9. Retail development: competition versus government control, Michael Poulson 10. Unemployment in metropolitan Sydney: spatial, social and temporal dimensions, Ian H. Burnley and Susanne R. Walker 11. Coping with change: new directions for the Sydney Water Board? Peter Crabb 12. Land use-transport changes and global restructuring in Sydney since the 1970s: the container issue, Peter J. Rimmer and John A. Black 13. Planning and the journey to work: Sydneys North Shore and Northern Beaches region, Graeme J. Aplin 14. Campbelltown: a case study of planned urban expansion, H.W. Faulkner

Industrialisation and South Australia

SUMMARY Like Australia as a whole, South Australia experienced rapid industrialisation from the 1930s, but employment growth rates in the state were generally well above national levels. Conversely, restructuring of Australian manufacturing since the mid 1970s has had especially severe consequences in the state. This paper documents and seeks to explain the distinctive pattern of industrial change in South Australia. Drawing on the contemporary literature on geographically uneven development, it argues that the states experience must be explored in the wider context of the dynamics of capitalist development. International, national and local forces have combined in a complex fashion to produce the specific pattern of manufacturing growth and restructuring evident in South Australia. Analysis focuses on the activities of capital, labour and the institutions of the state, key agents of economic change.

Reviews of recent Australian publications

AUSTRALIA: A GEOGRAPHY. Volume 1: The Natural Environment edited by D. N. Jeans. 18 × 25 cm, viii and 347 pages. Sydney University Press: Sydney 1986 (ISBN 0 424 00114 4)

Reviews and notices: New from Australia

A55.00 (hard); (ISBN 0 424 00124 1)

Integrated IT-based Geography Teaching and Learning: A Macquarie University Case Study.

A32.50 (soft). Western Australia. Departments of Education and Lands and Survey (1979) Western Australia: an atlas of human endeavour, 1829–1979, Government Printer, Perth. ATLAS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA edited by T. Griffin and M. McCaskill. 28 × 40 cm, xiv and 134 pages. South Australian Government Printing Division and Wakefield Press on behalf of the South Australian Jubilee 150 Board: Adelaide 1986 (ISBN 0 7243 46880)

Introducing Flexibility into Educational Programs: The Macquarie University Experience.

A55.00 (hard). URBAN AUSTRALIA: Planning Issues and Policies edited by S. Hamnett and R. Bunker. 16 × 24 cm, 192 pages. Nelson Wadsworth: Melbourne 1987 (ISBN 0 17 007166 9)

Environment and development in Australia

A29.95 (hard). AUSTRALIAN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CAPITAL (Working Paper No. 31) by M. T. Daly. 21 × 30 cm, viii and 39 pages. Transnational Corporations Research Project, University of Sydney 1...

Regional variations in productivity in Australian manufacturing

AUSTRALIA — A GEOGRAPHY edited by D. N. Jeans. 19 by 25 cm, vii and 571 pages, text figures, plates. Sydney University Press, Sydney 1977 (ISBN 0 424 00036 9) A